NASA’s largest awards of this round of funding went to MIT and Wyle Laboratories, a research contractor in Virginia, to investigate the environmental impact of commercial supersonic flight and how turbulence affects sonic booms, respectively.
Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles might be the cars of the future. In fact, to recycle an old joke (because here at Fuel Freedom we’re big on recycling), FCVs might forever be the cars of the future.
Chelsea Edwards, a volunteer campaigner with Divest London, explained why she was standing in the rain to scream at attendees of the black tie event: “We’re here because the annual oil and money conference is on, [and] it’s a grotesque reminder of how much oil companies are not heeding the warning of global warming.”
The president of Volkswagen’s American unit came under withering criticism on Thursday at a congressional hearing looking into the automaker’s admission that for years it knowingly skirted federal emissions standards.
Brown tried for an even stronger measure that would have also directed state regulators to enforce a 50 percent drop in petroleum use in the next 15 years, but oil interests defeated that part of the package.
The chief executives of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and ExxonMobil Corp. laid out contrasting visions this week for reducing fossil-fuel emissions, illustrating a divide between American and European energy companies ahead of a United Nations climate-change summit.
As long as the U.S. remains a net importer of petroleum, an unfettered global market will produce only niche areas where export of U.S. crude makes any economic sense.
John Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil and currently a member of Fuel Freedom Foundation’s Board of Advisors and Board of Directors, will deliver the keynote address at the 2016 RFA National Ethanol Conference in New Orleans.
The pace of global warming will slacken only if both lingering and short-lived pollutants are tackled.
The world is filled with rapidly advancing technologies, and the transportation fuels sector is no exception. A few more innovations like these, and our oil addiction will be a thing of the past.
