All Blog Posts Tagged 'oil' (10)

John Cornyn For those of you who don't know who John Cornyn is, he is a US senator from Texas, and is the chair for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He was ranked the fourth most conservative senator by the National Journal in 2006, but considering the direction the Republican Party is going these days he mi… Continue

Today's Items: Seventh Generation, Whole Foods + Rainforest Action Network's Palm Oil Webcast; Plum Creek Timber + Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes; Siemens + McGraw-Hill's Report The 3BL Media CSR Minute: 60 seconds or so of daily news and commentary on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the triple bottom line (3BL). Seventh Generation, Whole Foods, and the Rainforest Action Network will present a live video webcast this Thursday, September 24th, about… Continue

What I don't understand is why we are still using oil when alternative means of fueling our cars, trucks, etc. should be within our grasp. In all other fields of technology, we have seen leaps and bounds that we never thought possible. Fifty years ago, computers were the size of rooms. Now, we have computers that can fit into a backpack. Cell phones were not even in existence, and now our cell phones can do more than some computers. Solar and windpower has gained momentum and we've found ways to… Continue

Honda Hybrid CR-Z is a space-age replacement for the CR-X, that was taken out of Honda’s lineup in the late 90’s. The front end pokes way out an looks a little weird but everything else looks just right.

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This is the eBox from AC Propulsion. It goes 0-60 in 7 seconds, a top speed of 103 mph, and has a 150 mile range. An onboard charger also can give you up to 70 extra with one hour of charge.

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Well, I watch the world news with Charels Gibson*sp* every night. And for weeks now, they've been doing this thing on the oil crunch. Apperntly, Canada can be a good source of oil, but in order to get to it, they would have to strip the last original forest that is in Canada. I'll link this for more explination, and maybe zaproot did a show about this? I don't know since I've been out of technology for a while. http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5583417 Continue

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A Canadian firm named Petrobank is now using a new oil extraction method developed in Britain. It's called Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) which uses less energy than conventional methods to get oil out of sand. You can read more about it on Engineer Live. Hopefully this technique w… Continue

Toyota is often the post child for green cars, but let’s not forget that they still make things like the Toyota Sequoia which get’s a shocking 13 miles per gallon.

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