Vada Energy blog

Certain bright minds say we should throw trillions of mirrors into space to slow global warming. It doesn’t seem like a bad idea at a first glance, but other enlightened thoughts say we should release chemicals into the air to do just that.

Despite concerns over global warming, scientists have discovered something that may have actually limited the impact of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in recent years by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the Earth. So-called “global dimming,” will be the focus of a NOVA special scheduled to air on April 18 and [...]

HERE’S THE RULE OF THUMB: If you’re in a drive-through restaurant/business line or waiting for someone and you’ll be parked and sitting for 10 seconds or longer… turn off your car’s engine.

Whether you drive a two-seat hybrid or a three-ton SUV or a Toyota Prius, chances are you can squeeze a bit more distance out of each gallon of fuel. These ten fuel saving tips have served me well over the years, and they can help you improve your car’s fuel economy and take some of [...]

1. First of all, remove the aggressive tendency from your driving habits. I admit I myself like to be aggressive sometimes, it gives me chills, diesel cars have a lot of torque at low rpm, but from what I experienced that go fast-full stop-go-fast attitude costs me about 2 liters more per hundred kilometers. Sometimes [...]

John James, one of the writers for Crisis Coalition, Incorporated (http://www.planetextinction.com/) suggests, “It may be that declining oil may save us from climate change. As you know from my Proof article [http://planetextinction.com/documents/Proof.pdf], 1.5 degrees is inevitable, and in another four years - two degrees. Were oil to decline in that time span, we may yet [...]

Toyota is looking to a greener future - literally - with dreams of an ultralight, superefficient plug-in hybrid with a bioplastic body made of seaweed that could be in showrooms within 15 years.
The kelp car would build upon the already hypergreen 1/X plug-in hybrid concept, which weighs 926 pounds, by replacing its carbon-fiber body with [...]

Recently Mansilla + Tunon Architects broke ground on a stunning new project that will introduce an iconic green superstructure to Madrid’s skyline. The International Convention Center (CICCM) features a unique cylindrical building facade lined with solar panels and concave curves that suffuse its interiors with daylight. The plan will also introduce 80,000 square meters of [...]

How is clean energy technology faring amid the countervailing forces of Obama stimulus and economic meltdown? Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, my colleagues at Clean Edge, and I have just issued the 2009 report on clean energy trends — our seventh annual — and you won’t be surprised to learn that there’s both good news [...]

 
Almost all commercially produced liquid biofuels come from either sugary crops like sugar beet or cane, or starchy ones like potatoes or corn. But every acre used to cultivate those crops uses one that could grow food - potentially causing food shortages and pushing up prices.
Using woody material instead of crops could sidestep this to [...]

Georgia Institute of Technology has created a concept of a car in a pretty new polluting fashion: it uses petrol as a fuel, but it separates hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen is used in a fuel cell, and the CO2 is collected and recycled.