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West Philadelphia High School

"0 to 60 in 4 sec. & 50 mpg on soy bean oil"

New Li-Ion batteries in DeWalt power tools

Accord hybrid being replaced with 60mpg Diesel

Europe may restrict their oil imports to the US

Peak Oil Has Arrived!
The 3 Largest Oil Fields in the world have peaked!

Solar Cell technology & mfg. explosion in Silicon Valley

X Prize Foundation:
$25+ million prize for a 100 mpg car!

"People love their cars. They are vital links to our jobs, our community, ourselves. For everything we love about them, cars are chained to the most severe global crises of our time: oil dependence and climate change." - X Prize Foundation

"news, March 5th 2007"   "over 30 competitors sign on, Aug. 1st 2007"


"There's a very large industrial complex married to an old solution," says X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis.
"We fully endorse the X Prize," says Bob Lutz, vice chair of General Motors, "but we just cannot divert ourselves from the business at hand." That business is the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid electric car that Lutz hopes to have on the streets by 2010. "We're really not that interested in technology as a science-fair project," he says. But GM and the other major automakers are sure to be watching carefully for interesting technologies. If a team designs, say, a clever hybrid engine that bolts right onto the transmission of a Dodge Neon, it could sell the design to Chrysler and emerge a big winner regardless of whether it does well in the race.

Eric Hagerman, Wired magazine, 12-20-2007

Threats of Peak Oil to the Global Food Supply

A paper presented at the FEASTA Conference, "What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?",
June 23-25, 2005, Dublin Ireland

The scale of our dependency on fossil fuels has grown to enormous proportions.

Trucks move most of the world's food, even though trucking is ten times more energy-intensive than moving food by train or barge. Refrigerated jets move a small but growing proportion of food, almost entirely to wealthy industrial nations, at 60 times the energy cost of sea transport.

But the single most telling gauge of our dependency is the size of the global population. Without fossil fuels, the stupendous growth in human numbers that has occurred over the past century would have been impossible.

Grain production per capita: A total of 2,029 mil