We need electric, fuel efficient vehicles
Enough is enough! ALL NEW vehicles and all new ships and boats should be plug-in electric or 100% electric by Obama's 2015 deadline [or get 100 mpg!].
The Promoting Electric Vehicles Act (PEVA) of 2010 approved by the committee, 8-1-2010, would pour nearly US$3.9 billion over 10 years into selected communities to build infrastructure to charge electric cars, conduct research and provide incentives for consumers to buy plug-in vehicles. The goal is to put the United States on a path to electrify half the country's cars and trucks by 2030, which would cut US demand for oil by about one-third. [Good Grief, only half by 2030?!]
The rich cut-throats who, for so many years, have intimidated, bought-off, destroyed, and killed to preserve their source of riches, power, and influence, will only be super-trumped, by an inventor with something so simple that anyone can build it, and who makes the knowledge so public so quickly they can't stop it.
past and present:
Pogue super carburetor 1936 US patent |
A Few Magnet Motors 1905 . . . |
MYT Engine NASA 1st prize, 2006 |
| Dennis Klein’s Hydrogen Generator  2007 |
The Revetec X4v2 2006 |
Tesla's Radient (Dark) Energy Generators 1901 |
Energy saving work being sabotaged!
IMPORTANT UPDATE 
THE ORION PROJECT
May 13, 2010
For the past two years, The Orion Project has worked to raise funds to build a facility where we can bring scientists and inventors together in a peaceful type of Manhattan Project for energy - to develop new sources of energy that will get us off the fossil fuel economy. We have also worked to identify scientists and inventors capable of this work. For the past hundred years, scientists such as Nicola Tesla have worked on such devices. The fact that many have tried, and we are still using predominantly fossil fuels - the same fuels used in the 1800s - can be illustrated by our recent experience.
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Acoustical Warning System Protects Whales and Dolphins
Friday, August 20, 2010; Sea Shepherd News 
Early Warning System for the Whales: Sea Shepherd Deploys Acoustical Warning System for Whales in the Faroe Islands
Over the last few weeks, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has maintained a presence in the Danish Protectorate of the Faeroe (a.k.a. Faroe) Islands. Sea Shepherd is partnered with the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in our opposition to the brutal and barbaric slaughter of pilot whales by Faeroese citizens.
It is a slaughter more horrific than the killing of the dolphins in Taiji, Japan, and it is taking place in Europe in violation of the Berne Convention, to which Denmark is a signatory.
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Car gets 400+ MPG, Running On Vapor
Man Claims that Car gets 463 MPG and runs on fumes
Updated , August 24th, 2010
Literally running on vapor! [see our pages on Super Carb's - Pogue, Ogle, McBurney, ...]
John Weston stands next to his 1992 Geo Storm, which is equipped with his invention dubbed the Air Vapor Flow System. He claims the car can run 14 miles on 4 ounces of fuel, which would equate to more than 400 miles per gallon.
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TTXGP North American Electric Motorcycle Racing Championship
Lightning strikes at VIR to win the TTXGP North America 2010 electric motorcycle racing championship on August 15th 2010
August 16th, 2010 10:38 am; By David Herron, Green Transportation Examiner
Michael Barnes on the Lightning wins. With speeds of up to 134mph. Ms. Zoe Rem of Team Agni came in 2nd and Thad Wolff on Team Electra came in 3rd. In truth, Michael Barnes of Lightning Motorcycles had already won the TTXGP North American championship ahead of this weekend’s final race.
In an exciting finish to the TTXGP North America season, Michael Barnes wraps up the TTXGP North America championship. The race got off to a clean start and for the first few laps, unlike previous races, most of the pack was close together. Barnes, on the Lightning Motorcycles bike (yellow) led from the start to the finish, as happened in the previous TTXGP races. Further down the pack real competition happened with the 2nd and 3rd and 4th and 5th place finishers trading places several times. It was an exciting race, with all the teams performed excellently.
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U.S. Energy, (Oil)Mining Companies Must Disclose Government Payments
U.S. energy companies will soon have to reveal how much they pay foreign governments for rights to produce crude oil, natural gas and minerals around the world.
Tucked near the end of the more than 2,000-page final version of the financial reform bill is language requiring energy companies to submit the payment information annually to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The provision was added by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a long-time supporter of the voluntary Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, also a Democrat. That global initiative is backed by the World Bank, United Nations, and other groups, and aims to combat government corruption in resource-rich countries by monitoring and verifying payments received from energy and mining companies.
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General Motors Donates “pocket change” to Bright Automotive
August 5th, 2010;
[ Buying time, still avoiding real plans for a secure future. -ed ]
by Sarah Fobes 
In a huge move towards becoming more electric vehicle focused, GM has decided to enter into a partnership with Indiana-based electric vehicle company Bright Automotive. ... GM will give Bright Automotive $5 million to help kick start production of the plug-in hybrid van which Bright has dubbed the "Idea." GM will receive a minority stake in Bright.
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Beware Chevy Volt price gouging
Some General Motors dealers across the U.S. have been attempting to profit from would-be early adopters of the Chevy Volt by tacking on high premiums. The worst example reportedly took place at one Southern California Chevy dealership, which unwittingly told an Edmunds.com staffer via e-mail that he would have to pay $20,000 in addition to the $41,000 MSRP for a Chevy Volt, according to Edmund.com's AutoObserver.
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Nissan’s all-electric Leaf gains edge over Chevrolet Volt
By Carl Bagh; August 4, 2010
Once the Federal rebate of $7,500 is combined with $5,000 California State rebate, the $32,780-priced Nissan Leaf costs around $20,000. The lowered price beats GM's Volt which is priced at $41,000 which would come down to $33,500 when the Federal rebate kicks in. Nissan LEAF first will be available to consumers in December
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Chevrolet Volt Is Packed With Clever Features
Wired; by Guy Marsden
Editor's note: The Wired Volt Challenge gave four Wired.com readers the chance to visit General Motors to learn first-hand about the Chevrolet Volt, drive the car at Milford Proving Ground and write a review.This is contest winner Guy Marsden's review.
The Chevrolet Volt comes across as an electric vehicle designed by Cadillac engineers with aerospace aspirations. GM executives freely admit the car is "over-engineered," and there are so many clever features that owners will [take] a few weeks to appreciate them all. I had the advantage of meeting some of the engineers and designers before my drive and so I was prepared, but the features were nonetheless impressive.
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BP Damage Assesment, over 200 million gallons!
BP’s blownout Deepwater Horizon well gushed up to 2.6 million gallons a day, the federal government now says, a total equivalent of 19 Exxon Valdezes. For months, BP insisted the figure of 1,000 then 5,000 barrels a day. BP will be responsible for a $17.6 billion fine - $4,300 for each barrel of oil, less the 800,000 barrels directly siphoned from the well-head. BP’s leaking well gushed 62,000 barrels of oil a day, the federal government said Monday in a revision of its figures that reveals how far off initial estimates turned out to be. The new estimate Monday by federal scientists means 4.9 million barrels of oil likely were released by the well before it was temporarily capped last month.
Meanwhile, Republicans are expected to filibuster legislation this week that would reform the oil industry to prevent another such disaster. [1 bbl (barrel) = 42 gallons; 4.9 million barrels total = 205.8 million gallons total ! ]
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oil giant BP: 97% of Worst Industry Violations
Renegade Refiner: OSHA Says BP Has “Systemic Safety Problem”
97% of Worst Industry Violations Found at BP Refineries
By Jim Morris and M.B. Pell | May 16, 2010
Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three years, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. Most of BP’s citations were classified as “egregious willful” by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and reflect alleged violations of a rule designed to prevent catastrophic events at refineries.
BP is battling a massive oil well spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an April 20 platform blast that killed 11 workers. But the firm has been under intense OSHA scrutiny since its refinery in Texas City, Texas, exploded in March 2005, killing 15 workers. While continuing its probe in Texas City, OSHA launched a nationwide refinery inspection program in June 2007 in response to a series of fires, explosions and chemical releases throughout the industry.
Refinery inspection data obtained by the Center under the Freedom of Information Act for OSHA’s nationwide program and for the parallel Texas City inspection show that BP received a total of 862 citations between June 2007 and February 2010 for alleged violations at its refineries in Texas City and Toledo, Ohio.
Of those, 760 were classified as “egregious willful” and 69 were classified as “willful.” Thirty of the BP citations were deemed “serious” and three were unclassified. Virtually all of the citations were for alleged violations of OSHA’s process safety management standard, a sweeping rule governing everything from storage of flammable liquids to emergency shutdown systems. BP accounted for 829 of the 851 willful violations among all refiners cited by OSHA during the period analyzed by the Center.
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Fossil fuel subsidies are 10 times those of renewables
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 August 2010
New analysis shows that government support for fossil fuel industry is about 10 times that offered to renewable energy firms
Despite repeated pledges to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and criticism from some quarters that government support for renewable energy technologies is too generous, global subsidies provided to renewable energy and biofuels are dwarfed by those enjoyed by the fossil fuel industry.
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Michigan Oil Spill Damages Wildlife, Forces Residents To Evacuate
July 31st, 2010
On Monday, a disastrous leak in one of the world’s largest pipeline systems gushed over 1 million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, located in southwest Michigan. Already, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has declared the area a disaster zone, quickly activating State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) to ensure all state resources are devoted to oil spill response. “From my perspective, the response has been anemic,” Granholm said. Spill workers and volunteers have been hard at work, cleaning the horrifyingly oily water:
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electric car dominates gas-powered dragsters
Powered by 12 Dow/Kokam lithium polymer 30-volt batteries
http://nedra.com/
PORTLAND, OR (JULY 30, 2010)
Returing to the track after a few adjustments from the Wayland Invitational the weekend before, the White Zombie and crew's efforts were rewarded with a 1.5 second improvement turning a 10.4 second run against Nissan's Godzilla, a pocket rocket gasser GTR.
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Pipeline Leaks In Alaska’s Oldest Oil Field
Thursday, 22 July 2010 8:37AM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An estimated 630 gallons of oil has leaked from a buried pipeline in Alaska's oldest operating oil field, state environmental officials said Wednesday. The leak was discovered at the Swanson River oil field in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge south of Anchorage, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) said. The field, which produces both oil and natural gas, is operated by Chevron Corp. Chevron has shut in the two wells that feed the affected pipeline, said Steve Russell, an environmental program specialist with the DEC.
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Quantum wins contract from Fisker for solar photovoltaic systems
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, an alternative energy company, has received a contract for engineering and implementing production tooling for the Fisker Karma solar photovoltaic roof module. Under this contract, Quantum and its German solar affiliate Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems will design and procure production tooling to enable production of solar roof modules beginning in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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contact Obama! 