Women pioneers in Biofuel
Women are pioneering the emerging biofuels industry, which uses recycled vegetable oil to power vehicles that produce far fewer emissions than diesel fuel.
Transportation
The concrete isle
Ireland has become rich. It has also surrendered itself to motorways, shopping malls, and urban sprawl, stripping peat bogs, demolishing monuments along the way. Mark Lynas reports on one of the world’s worst polluters
Public transit essential
The inability of the Pennsylvania legislature to devise adequate funding for public transportation is but another sign of how far removed from reality Americans and their elected representatives are.
Haulier strike could halt UK, says report
We are so dependent on “just in time” deliveries that a strike by hauliers could halt factories, offices, shops, pubs, hospitals and waste collections, and bring Britain to a standstill within days.
Oil pinch threatens to bring changes
If oil production is about to peak, America’s transportation-dependent economy appears
headed for a crippling crisis in coming decades.
Fuelish choices – Expanding hybrid choices can slow slide to oil’s end
In October, International Truck & Engine Corp. announced plans to help build diesel-electric hybrid industrial trucks that consume 40 percent to 60 percent less fuel and release fewer toxic emissions. The upward movement of oil prices at the pump can be explained by a theory called Hubbert’s Peak.
Traffic, Cars and Peak Oil
The National Roads Authority (NRA) forecasts for the traffic levels and the total number of cars in Ireland are flawed because they do not take into account the looming issue of Peak Oil. The growth for the number of cars is based on the rising population, GNP and a rising car per capita rate. This was a reasonable assumption up to now, but Peak Oil changes everything and this continued growth is very unlikely to come to pass.
Fuel for nought: biofuels = disaster
The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster
Tomorrow’s petrol is a gas
Shell’s first US hydrogen station is open now, reports John Vidal. But will we all be filling up soon?
Americans discover charms of living near mass transit
Since the 1980s, Los Angeles has quietly built a mass-transit network — subway, commuter rail, light rail, rapid bus — that’s slowly taking strain off roads. Development around that network is taking off. New housing near transit hubs is in sharp demand by commuters like Thacher.
Just What America Needs – A Car Even Bigger Than the Hummer
It may not be long before drivers of the Hummer – the steroid-laden sports utility vehicle favoured by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger – get a fright when they look in their rear-view mirrors.
Researchers: Sprawl Related to Health Woes
North Carolina researchers are heading a national study to find the best ways to redesign communities so that Americans get out of their cars and travel by foot or bicycle.