Published by www.domainpossible.com Fords Michigan automotive plant is centering on plans for new EVs and hybrids Ford plans to increase its automotive production of hybrid and all electric cars at its Michigan Plant. Ford says they will beat all other car manufactures when it comes to fuel savings, miles per gallon, and charging times. Ford automotive anticipates the 2012 Ford Focus Electric car will be the 1st five-passenger all-electric vehicle to reach at atleast 100 mpg in blended city/highway motoring. That blows Toyota's prius out of the water compared to three years ago! Environmental Protection Agency predicts the Nissan Leaf electric automobile to achieve 99 mpg. The Chevrolet Volt, which gets a gas engine to extend its mileage when the battery gos dead. The Volt is listed at 94 mpg. The Environmental Protection Agency has not studied Fords vehicles yet. Ford automotive released its figures at the Michigan assembly plant to mark the start of the Ford Focus all electric car. The ford focus will be available to the public in the first quarter of this year 2012. The base price is a tad high at 000. But the government will give you a 00 federal tax credit. Now the base price is only 500, now that's a great deal! This all electric car only hits 84 miles per hour at top speed so don't plan on making this a "get away" car. Ford automotive domainpossible.comFords new battery charger is 240v that charges the car in 3 hours. That is significantly greater than ... Video Rating: 0 / 5
3 , the U.S. government have announced a number of advanced bio-fuel subsidy scheme, involving the development, production, project management and other fields, trying to speed up the U.S. cellulosic ethanol and algae fuel projects of construction, to ensure that the U.S. biofuels future leadership. U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on March 3, Range Fuel will provide 80 million U.S. dollars of loan guarantees to finance the company's plant in Georgia, wood cellulose production of bio-fuel projects. It is understood that this is the first commercial U.S. Department of Agriculture Fiber Cellulose bio-fuel plants to provide secured loans, loans in some of the funds will be used for fuel Range first commercial cellulosic bio-fuel projects. According to the plan, the project's first phase of construction will be completed this month and put into operation the second quarter of this year. Fully operational, the plant will annually produce about 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol. Range Fuel's CEO, David? Aldous, said the Ministry of Agriculture's loan guarantee will help the company expand plant and related facilities, the successful completion of the work, will contribute to the United States the use of cellulosic biofuels, and commercial promotion. 3 4, Energy Ministry of Advanced Energy Research Projects Agency and DuPont technology investment agreement signed, allocated 8.8 million U.S. dollars for the transformation of sugar production a new generation of DuPont algae biofuels research isobutanol. Under the agreement, DuPont will be allocated and shared the biological structure of laboratory, a joint venture between DuPont and BP Butamax advanced biofuels company will be responsible for the technology business development. U.S. Department of Energy also said it would use part of the funding method, and then funded 18 pilot and demonstration projects of biological refining the design, construction, and promote the United States of cellulose and seaweed as raw material, the commercialization of advanced biofuels development. Earlier, the Department of Energy has allocated 22.6 million U.S. dollars for Rentech Inc. of biomass gasification projects producing renewable fuels. In addition, Bluefire ethanol companies recently received the Department of Energy is expected to top 250 million U.S. dollars of loan guarantees, will be used for the company 19 million gallons / year of cellulosic ethanol projects. 3 9, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Department of Energy, a subsidiary RWBeck received 21 million U.S. dollars of funding, specifically for advanced bio-fuel project engineering management. SAIC will pay close attention to meet the Department of Energy standards for bio-fuel-funded projects, once approved by the Department of Energy, SAIC will provide management of these projects, technical, financial, construction and operation of regulatory support. U.S. government official said relevant departments of the Government commercial biomass production of non-food biofuel project funding will help ensure that the United States to achieve global leadership in renewable energy goals, and to further create employment opportunities and Economy Development opportunities.
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Current world fossil oil production is struggling to meet demand and may even show a decline after 2010. It is therefore necessary to develop new energy efficient production pathways for transportation biofuels. This book offers an insight into three promising and innovative pathways for the biological production of biodiesel, ethanol and methane. These unconventional methods should provide higher product yields, less stringent feedstock specifications, lower chemical additive demand, reduced waste production and much better energy balances when compared to more traditional methods. The first pathway is the enzymatic production of a new kind of biodiesel where no glycerol waste is produced and a twenty percent higher product yield is obt
Process engineering can potentially provide the means to develop economically viable and environmentally friendly technologies for the production of fuel ethanol. Focusing on a key tool of process engineering, Process Synthesis for Fuel Ethanol Production is a comprehensive guide to the design and analysis of the most advanced technologies for fuel ethanol production from feedstocks. It describes how process systems engineering can be applied to fuel ethanol production to achieve new levels of efficiency according to technical, economic, and environmental criteria. Drawing on the authors’ more than 15 years of process engineering and ethanol research, the book first focuses on liquid biofuels, before examining the role of process synth
This digital document is a journal article from Bioresource Technology, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Part of the Government Series, Energy: from TheCapitol.Net Biofuels have grown significantly in the past few years as a component of U.S. motor fuel supply. Current U.S. biofuels supply relies primarily on ethanol produced from Midwest corn. Today, ethanol is blended in more than half of all U.S. gasoline (at the 10% level or lower in most cases). Federal policy has played a key role in the emergence of the U.S. biofuels industry in general, and the corn ethanol industry in particular. U.S. biofuels production is supported by federal and state policies that include minimum usage requirements, blending and production tax credits, an import tariff to limit importation of foreign-produced ethanol, loans and loan guarantees to facilitate the
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Lithium Supply May Not Be Sufficient for Electric Car Battery Production, Study Finds
Papillion, NE (PRWEB) January 29, 2007
The vast majority of world's supply of lithium carbonate, the mineral used to make lithium-based batteries for cellphones and laptop computers is found in just four countries: China, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia, reports William Tahil, director of research for Meridian International Research in a newly released white paper entitled, The Trouble with Lithium.
In an exclusive telephone interview with EV World (http://www.evworld.com), Tahil contends that all of the world's current production of lithium salts, which are extracted from brine lakes high in the Andes and Tibet, is being utilized for small electronics and other industrial applications, and while production capacity will double in the next fews years, the industry simply can't produce enough lithium to build the hundreds of millions of large-format batteries needed to power the electric cars and plug-in hybrids of the future.
Recently both General Motors and Ford Motor Company unveiled electric concept cars at the North American International Auto Show that make use of lithium-chemistry batteries. As recently as the 2007 State of the Union address, George Bush has been promoting plug-in hybrids and through an executive order is requiring federal fleets to buy them in the future.
Tahil estimates as much of 15% of the world's known reserves of lithium carbonate and lithium chloride would be required to equip each of the world's 800 million cars and trucks with a relatively small, 8 kWh battery pack. GM's Volt concept car is powered by a 16 kWh lithium battery pack. In his view, this is unsustainable.
Instead, Tahil is proposing that two other well-understood battery chemistries be more actively investigated and developed: sodium nickel chloride and zinc-air, both of which offer comparable or greater energy density than lithium without the attendant safety or resource depletion issues. After iron, aluminum and copper, zinc is the most commonly used metal by modern society. A 2005 USGS estimate placed American zinc reserves a 30,000,000 metric tons and world reserves, excluding the US, at 220 million metric tons. Tahil estimates total world lithium metal reserves at just 6,200,000 metric tons.
The complete 45-minute interview with Tahil, who lives in Normandy, France is available as an MP3 audio "podcast" on the EV World web site (http://www.evworld.com).
New Small Scale Ethanol Plants Provide Highly Efficient Waste to Ethanol Production
Small Modular Ethanol Plant
Burnsville, MN (PRWEB) March 6, 2008
A state of the art waste to ethanol process was recently introduced by Diversified Ethanol Corporation, a Burnsville, Minnesota clean tech innovator. Diversified Ethanol designs and builds small scale, modular ethanol plants that utilize existing waste as feedstocks which can be converted to ethanol or biodiesel. For example, using their proprietary technology, breweries, beverage recycling and food processing facilities can now convert their liquid waste into ethanol and a new revenue stream. Design work has been completed and construction to begin soon on a 5 million gallon per year plant for a major soda recycler in Southern California.
The company's award winning "Butterfield Closed Cycle System"™ utilizes several technologies, including ElectroHesion™, a proprietary water recycling system that reduces water use by up to 85%. ElectroHesion™ effectively separates the solids from the process water, insuring that the majority of the water can be infinitely recycled. The unique design of the ElectroHesion uses a single chamber, continuous flow through design, that can treat from 10 to 2500 gallons per minute and uses a fraction of the electrical energy required by other systems.
Diversified Ethanol's innovative technologies provide solutions to two of the biggest challenges facing conventional Ethanol production: the extensive use of water and the expensive, fuel intensive, crop-based feedstocks such as corn. The "Butterfield Closed Cycle System"™ solves both problems by recycling most of the water and converting existing and inexpensive waste to ethanol.
For example, according to a recent article in USA Today, city officials in Champaign and Urbana, ILL were concerned when a proposed ethanol plant nearby would require about 300 million gallons of water for processing the product and cooling equipment, drawing from the aquifer that supplies both cities.
Furthermore, recent studies quoted by Science Magazine and other sources are now reporting that conventional ethanol production actually contributes more greenhouse gases than gasoline when you factor in land use and the fuel intensive growing of crop based feedstock. Also adding to fuel cost is the necessity to truck that ethanol across country from the Midwest to the markets on the east and west coasts. However, most of these same studies conclude that ethanol from waste is still a viable alternative.
There is a growing interest in on-site waste to ethanol production technologies, that can convert waste products into ethanol. From citrus in Florida to wood chips in the Northwest to potato waste in Idaho, each part of the county has waste streams that can be converted to energy using cellulosic and other innovative forms of production. This trend toward using various waste products for ethanol eliminates the use of fossil fuel intensive crop based feedstocks. Furthermore, being localized, these systems also remove the need to ship the ethanol across country, further increasing the efficiency of these sources of alternative energy.
"This represents a major breakthrough in Ethanol production, significantly reducing water usage and addressing one of the primary community concerns regarding ethanol plants", says Bob Johnson, CEO of Diversified Ethanol. "And using existing waste products as feedstock and delivering Ethanol directly to local communities, eliminates the problems associated with the more fuel intensive crop based feedstocks, and more effectively reduces greenhouse gases."
Diversified Ethanol is a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenbelt Resources (Pink Sheets: GRCO). For more information, see: Diversified Ethanol
This press release does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks & uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including, without limitation, the company's limited operating history & history of losses, the inability to successfully obtain further funding, the inability to raise capital on terms acceptable to the company, the inability to compete effectively in the marketplace, the inability to complete the proposed acquisition and such other risks that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in the company's projections or forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking state ments to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
AMP 100% Electric Car Now Taking Orders For Initial Production Run of 300 Vehicles
Photo of AMP Saturn Sky
Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) May 23, 2008
100% Electric Converted Saturn Sky Will Travel 150 Miles on a Charge, Top Speed
90 mph, 0 to 60 in 5.7 Seconds - Zero Emissions, Zero Pollution, Zero Gasoline Needed
Advanced Mechanical Products, Inc. (AMP), the Midwestern company that has engineered converting the Saturn Sky to 100% electric, announced today that they are now taking orders for conversions at http://www.ampmotorworks.com .
"The prototype is in the final stage, and production will take place later this year, with deliveries beginning in 2009," said Jack Kuntz, AMP CEO.
The AMP totally electric car is a converted Saturn Sky. The combustion drive train has been replaced with electric motors, safe lithium batteries, and proprietary control software.
"The AMP car is the best of both worlds," said Tim Wieck, Chief AMP Engineer. "All the design excellence of a GM Saturn, combined with AMP engineering. And with stats like 0 to 60 in under 6 seconds and 90 mph top speed, believe me, this is no golf cart!"
Cost of conversion to 100% electric is $ 25,000, plus the cost of the car, making the entire total about $ 50,000. Buyers can order the original Saturn to be converted from http://www.saturnofkingsautomall.com and receive preferred pricing. Or if they have a 2007 or later Saturn, they can simply have it converted.
Orders for conversions are now being taken online at http://www.ampmotorworks.com. AMP is only converting 300 vehicles in the first production run, and those conversions will be done on a first-come, first-served basis. So buyers are encouraged to purchase sooner rather than later, to ensure availability. AMP is only accepting orders in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio area, so they can provide service from their Cincinnati facility.
Why did a group of engineers, businessmen and investors in Cincinnati, Ohio decide to take this project on? "To reduce our dependency on foreign oil, to put zero emissions into the atmosphere, and to ease the pain at the pump," answered Kuntz. "This is a vehicle that will do all three."
The race to create the electric car has been with us for sometime now. But technological hurdles and high price tags have been a barrier until now. The AMP is bringing the electric car more into the mainstream. Today, many people will spend in excess of $ 50,000 on a luxury vehicle to make a statement. With AMP, you make a statement and a difference.
Disclaimer: Certain trademarks appearing on this site including, but not limited to, Saturn, Saturn Sky, and Sky as well as the respective logos and model designs are property of Saturn Corporation. Advanced Mechanical Products, Inc. (AMP) products and services are neither sponsored by, affiliated with nor authorized by Saturn Corporation.
About Advanced Mechanical Products, Inc.
Founded in 2007 by industry veterans who have created several hi-tech companies, Advanced Mechanical
Products' patent-pending vehicle conversion technology will provide new solutions to America's energy
demands.
Since its inception last year, the AMP converted Saturn Sky has proven itself to be a idea that has generated
an extreme amount of interest, with inquiries coming from around the world.
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