Day February 11, 2007

Clean cars vs. corporate profit

The European Commission plans to impose mandatory limits for CO2 emissions from cars by 2012. Predictably, right-tilting media as well as car makers oppose it, saying voluntary limits, carbon trading, and technology can solve the problem. While those approaches may…

Pond scum to biodiesel

Utah State University plans to produce biodiesel from pond algae that will be competitively priced by 2009. The algae “can produce up to 10,000 gallons of oil per acre and can be grown virtually anywhere.”