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Fuel Consumption in New Cars Can Be Halved by 2030, Report Says
With advanced technologies and innovative government policies, fuel consumption in new vehicles can be cut in half by 2030, saving billions of dollars in fuel costs worldwide and significantly reducing...
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Speed Limits on Cargo Ships Could Reduce their Pollutants by More than Half
Putting a speed limit on cargo ships as they sail near ports and coastlines could cut their emission of air pollutants by up to 70 percent, reducing the impact of marine shipping on Earth’s climate and...
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Indian Students Get Award for Sustainable Cooking Solution
A team of student entrepreneurs from India called Greenway Grameen Infra has won the Grand Prize earlier this month at the 8th Annual Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley. The global business plan...
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Low Impact Motoring – What’s The Sustainable Route?
There is an assumption that buying a green, low emissions or even an electric car produces the lightest carbon footprint. But studies reveal that the manufacture of all cars, even green or electric...
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Red Smog Alert Chokes Northern China
A red alert has been issued for several cities in northern China including Changchun and Harbin. A red alert is the highest level on the four-tiered alert system and is defined as serious air pollution...
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New Gas-Powered Mazda Will Get More than 70 Miles Per Gallon
Mazda will introduce a subcompact gas-powered vehicle in Japan next year that gets 70.5 miles per gallon, a model automakers say shows that combustion-powered cars can deliver fuel efficiency similar...
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New Truck Emission Standards and Controls
To those who drive behind diesel trucks, they know that these vehicles tend to be more slower moving and potentially smellier than other vehicles. Those who drive trucks know they are gasoline hogs...
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IT to Drive Vehicle Energy Efficiency
We can thank the arrival of the Toyota Prius, Al Gore, and a few summers of flirting with $4 gas prices for the current rise in consumer interest in vehicle efficiency and reducing emissions. While...
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Capturing Energy With GE’s Dynamic Braking System
The ecomagination team at GE is pushing renewable energy limits with heat capture and hybrid dynamic braking on trains. The energy that’s generated when stopping a train is quite substantial and GE’s...
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How to Bring a Plane Down: FAA Greens Landings
The next time you fly, during the landing, you probably won’t think you are crashing but you may feel something a bit different. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is changing the way...
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Department of Transportation’s Wireless Research Ties Intelligent Transport...
President Obama highlighted the National Clean Fleets Partnership last week at the UPS facility in Landover, MD. This public-private partnership, part of the Department of Energy’s “Clean Cities”...
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Hybrid Tech Expands, but the Name Fades
The slow but steady rise in popularity of the Toyota Prius has created a positive association for automakers with the word “hybrid” and prompted many competitors to launch competing vehicles....
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Innovations and FERC Policies Increase the Value of Microgrids
Recent advances in the complexity of microgrids currently being installed are stimulating a rush to increase the versatility and function of a technology platform originally conceived around the notion...
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New Fuel Economy Standard Agreed to by White House, Automakers
The Obama administration and U.S. automakers have agreed on a new fuel economy standard that would require cars and light trucks to achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, a target that...
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Conserving our Resources, Securing our Forces
Across the federal government, and certainly in the Department of Defense, we know that after a decade of war we're entering a new era of smaller, tighter, leaner budgets. One of the areas we can look...
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Innovation is Changing How We Think About Railroads
Railroad history dates back to the 1550’s in Germany where horse drawn wagons or carts moved along railed roads consisting of wooden rails. Modern rail has come a long way. Today, there are myriad...
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Mercedes-Benz S 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Declared 2012 World Green Car
We know you’ve been waiting with bated breath, but the results are finally in. For the second time in less than 10 years, Mercedes-Benz won the award for producing the greenest car in the world....
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Apps to Save Electricity, Money and the Environment
Here at Energy Refuge we promote alternative energy tirelessly, but we are also big supporters of energy efficiency, which is one of the first steps toward a more sustainable planet. With the mass...
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Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels – a Clash of the Titans
I had the pleasure to interview the president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) for my next book project (“Renewable Energy – Following the Money”) recently. Dennis McGinn (pictured...
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