Can a rental car company really move society toward sustainable transport? Hertz on Demand, a car sharing service from the eponymous rental agency, believes they have devised a way to more appropriately share cars. Currently there are a wealth of these types of services. Occasional Car, eGo Car Share, and ZipCar are some of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Oil Consumption’
Hertz on Demand: Toward Sustainable Transportation
April 18th, 2012 
Eric Wilson Double Set of Five Friday Facts: Natural Gas Leads the Pack
April 13th, 2012 Eric Wilson When looking at which energy source provides the most energy to the American economy, natural gas topped the charts for 2010 (the most recent year for which data was fully available). Today’s set of facts looks at the breakdown of the various sources and follows up last week’s Five Friday Facts which looked at the [...]
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Tags: Biomass, Coal, Energy, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Oil Consumption, Solar Energy, Wind Power 
No Comments »Eco-Marathon Challenges Students to Create Ultra Fuel-Efficient Transport
April 9th, 2012 Eric Wilson When energy efficiency and fuel economy come to mind, big oil is not always the first image that pops up. However, Shell Oil has been supporting the Eco-Marathon, a competition for “high school and college student teams from around the world to design, build and test energy efficient vehicles.” The current record is held by [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson Tags: Battery, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Economy, Oil Consumption, Peak Oil, Photovoltaic, Plug-in Hybrid, Solar Energy No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Technology and US Fuel
April 6th, 2012 Justin Manger The incredible drop in imported liquid fuels such as oil over the last 6 years is due in large part to technological breakthroughs in drilling and recovery techniques that has let the U.S. capture more of its natural (though non-renewable) resources. The debates over the pros and cons to this trend of using advanced technology [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Energy, Fracking, Natural Gas, Oil Consumption, Water No Comments »Why Dig for Energy When We’re Bombarded Every Day?
March 25th, 2012 Eric Wilson Ever wonder why oil is underground? I don’t mean how it got there (decomposing organisms trapped below layers of sediment that were compressed). I mean why we go through the trouble of digging it out of the ground. I realize it’s energy dense, but hear me out. I find it kind of curious to think [...]
Listening Closely to the Energy Debate
March 20th, 2012 Eric Wilson We do not take a political position on this site. However, the other morning the three Republican candidates for the nomination all had curious comments on U.S. energy. I say three, because the radio station I was listening to did not mention Texas Representative Ron Paul’s position on the issue. I suppose the first question [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, News, Policy, President Obama Tags: Analysis, Bio-fuels, Energy, Oil Consumption, Peak Oil, Science No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Oil
December 23rd, 2011 Eric Wilson The following Five Friday Facts come from Stacy Dewald at Heating Oil Shopper, a Web publishing company that specializes in information about oil production and consumption, particularly as it relates to the business and environmental impacts of oil. For the original article, click here. According to the U.S. Energy Information Association, Canada is the top [...]
Keystone Pipeline and the Future of Fuel
December 18th, 2011 Eric Wilson A few weeks ago news came out that President Obama was stalling the decision on the Keystone Pipeline from Alberta, Canada down to Texas. This was no doubt a political move tied to the 2012 election. Apparently, the company that is building the pipeline acquiesced to demands from environmentalists that the pipeline avoid certain areas of Nebraska [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Policy, President Obama Tags: Bio-fuels, Oil Consumption No Comments »U.S. Navy Makes Largest Government Purchase of Biofuels
December 6th, 2011 Eric Wilson According to a press release from the Department of Defense, the United States Navy recently agreed to purchase 450,000 gallons of domestically produced biofuel. Solazyme (written up here recently) and Dynamic Fuels LLC were jointly awarded the $12 million contract. One of the unique aspects of the blend is that Solazyme’s biofuel is algae-based, while [...]
Is China Headed in the Right Direction?
November 10th, 2011 Chris DeArmond China may be one of the first countries that pops into your head when you think of clean technology, but its government has only just begun to recognize the environmental damage caused by two decades of unhinged economic growth. In a 2011 study, the World Bank found that 20 of the world’s 30 most polluted [...]
Posted in China, Featured Posts, Renewable Energy Tags: Chris DeArmond, Coal, Environment, Oil Consumption, Pollution, Solar Energy, Water, Wind Power No Comments »
