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Take, for example, Sweden's nationwide rush to convert cars from gasoline to fuels like ethanol and biogas fermented from plant waste. Stations that sell alternative fuels are springing up all over the country, and fully 13% of new autos sold in February, the most recent month for which numbers are available, can run on ultra-low-emission substances...
Scientists are grappling with what President Bush admitted last week were "mixed signals" from his Administration about alternative energy. While calling in his State of the Union address for research into renewables--he advocated turning switchgrass into ethanol--Bush sent a budget to Congress that cuts $28 million in funding for such projects. Yet that isn't stopping folks from seeking creative ways to help solve the nation's energy woes...
...Police responded to a fire alarm at the Fairchild Biochemistry Building last Tuesday to find a fourth-floor biology experiment gone awry. A beaker of ethanol had turned over and ignited, the experimenters told police that night. They cleaned it up, and one was treated for minor burns at University Health Services. By the time the smoke had cleared, Cambridge Fire Department and Facilities Maintenance Operations had reported to the scene...
...biking yesterday around the Mall in 60-degree-weather, I realized that there might be some validity to this global warming idea. From small efforts to build ethanol and biodiesel vehicles to completely altering America’s fleet of 200 million automobiles to run on hydrogen, curbing global warming will take dramatic action, not just dramatic rhetoric. A first step is a dollar tax on gasoline, an approach that has been derided by corporate America. Tonight, I can no longer allow the destruction of our world to go unchecked in the interest of ExxonMobil’s $36 billion...
None of sugar's major producers have gone unscathed. Brazil, the world's largest exporter, is diverting more of its drought-shortened crop to the production of ethanol, a cheaper alternative to imported oil. In Thailand, the world's No. 2 exporter, supermarkets have begun rationing supplies. Drought in 2004, the worst in 40 years, reduced output by more than 2 million tons...