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Fed Makes Financial Leaps back into Algae Fuel Research

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

CABC (Consortium for Algal Biofuels Commercialization), SABC (Sustainable Algal Biofuels Consortium, and Cellana, LLC Consortium just received a large grant of twenty four million dollars from the federal government in algae fuel research. Each group has been designated specific tasks to tackle the obstacles laid forth by algae’s ability to yield energy.
CABC, led by the [...]

What’s Hypermiling

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

It’s a set of techniques used to increase the gas mileage you your car. The techniques involve accelerating slower, braking less, drafting, and typically trying to prevent the amount of time that your car is sitting idle doing nothing. There are also technical things that you can do to your car to help [...]