March 4 is the anniversary of the first running of the modern gasoline engine. Invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, it was basically a modified horse carriage powered by their Grandfather Clock Engine.
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Archive for March, 2007
Great article here from Wired which shows you how to wire your house to a fuel cell. Total cost of the project was $50,000 *ouch*
Performance wise it can store a 500-gallon hydrogen fuel tank with excess electricity that can power the house for 14 days. Talk about backyard power.
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The Department of Energy issued new rules for the selling of Autogas in the public market. Due to the sudden spike of fuel prices last year, a lot of taxi franchises converted their fleet to run on LPG. Hence the mushrooming of vehicles running on LPG.
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It was reported a while back that the Philippines was pondering on reviving its nuclear energy program in partnership with a Japanese Energy Company. The issue however is very delicate as a past program which was to deliver to the Philippines its first nuclear power plant resulted in a graft ridden project that gave birth to a mothballed power plant that was never run due to safety concerns.
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