Collaborate Disseminate
In 2021, Australian mining and cleantech company Fortescue announced a plan to float the world’s first ammonia-powered ship by 2022. It’s a bit late, and not quite as ammonia-powered as we hoped, but the Green Pioneer now appears ready to roll.Continue… Continue reading Green Pioneer: World-first ammonia ship fills up in Singapore
If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Fell Locomotive
Researchers in Canada have, for the first time ever, demonstrated how acute exposure to traffic pollution can immediately impair human brain function, offering unique evidence of the connection between air quality and cognition. Healthy adults were exp… Continue reading First-of-its-kind study shows how traffic pollution impairs brain function
UNSW researchers have prototyped and tested a retrofit system that converts diesel engines to run on 90% hydrogen, radically reducing both carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions while boosting efficiency by an impressive 26% in the process.Continue… Continue reading Retrofit system converts existing diesel engines to run on 90% hydrogen
The regulators appear to have taken offense at modifying an electric vehicle to run on gas. Continue reading This Diesel Tesla Got a YouTuber in Trouble With the EPA
We’ve all heard of the smoke test, and we know that it’s the lowest possible bar for performance of an electronic device. If it doesn’t burst into flames when power …read more Continue reading Homebrew Optical Sensor Helps Your Diesel Pass the Smoke Test
When you’re standing at the gas station filling up your car, watching those digits on the pump flip by can be a sobering experience. Fuel prices, especially the price of …read more Continue reading Electric Vehicles, the Gasoline Problem, and Synthetic Fuels
If you’re running an army, chances are good that you need a lot of portable power for everything from communications to weapons control systems. When it comes to your generators, every ounce counts. The smaller and lighter you can get …read more
Continue reading The Rotary-X Engine is a Revolution in Thermodynamics
A South Australian company is ready to go into full production with an innovative aftermarket kit that impressively cuts fuel consumption, particulates and carbon monoxide emissions from big diesel engines, asking only for a little water in return.Cont… Continue reading Hydrogen injection device saves fuel and cuts emissions on big diesels
Over the past decade, auto manufacturers have improved the handling and fuel efficiency of their pickup truck offerings. The Ram 1500 is one of the major players in this segment and we drove the 2020 model in both of its higher-efficiency powertrain op… Continue reading How do the 2020 Ram 1500’s efficiency options stack up?