http://www.corncar.com An alternative energy experiment Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:38:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy new year, all! Sorry about the sparse updates, but it's been a plague-ridden holiday for the Corn Car crew, what with the pink eye and flu and back problems and all. But it's a new year, with a lot of challenges ahead for bio/alternative fuels in both economic and ... http://www.corncar.com/2009/01/02/2009-and-were-feelinnotfine/ Gah! We haven't posted since the 1st? Why didn't anyone tell us? We haven't been looking at the calendar much because a) our wall calendar is from 1990, and b) pink eye has been going around and all of us have it. Hence, we cannot see much of anything. Which ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/12/16/grim-tidings/ Man, sorry for the delay in posting - we've been lapsing in and out of food comas since Thursday afternoon, as is customary over Thanksgiving. But now that we're back, we're proud to announce that we now know who rounds out the top ten ethanol producing countries. The first two ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/12/01/contenders-for-king-ethanol/ We've been critical of Brazil's ethanol industry before, what with the myriad human rights/environmental issues and all, but we still find ourselves glad that they're helping us with cellulosic ethanol research - according to Reuters, the U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and Brazil's Center for Research and Development (CENPES) ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/11/21/superpowers-assemble/ Once again the forces of industry are outdone by bored teenagers - Luke LaBorde, an 18-year-old boy in San Antonio, TX, converted a gas-powered Bradley kit car to run on electric power, for a mere $18,000 (which, in car money, is a drop in the bucket). The car can go ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/11/13/gt-ii-electric-boogaloo/ So yeah, about that whole "posting later in the week" thing. Technically, we're still on the up-and-up, since it's only been 5 days since our last post and a week is 7 days long. And since this is our blog and we're free to hedge our own scheduling inconsistencies as ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/11/10/hatin-on-corn/ A more substantive, on-topic post is on the way, but we felt like popping in and congratulating Barack Obama on his truly historic presidential win. This is a big moment for America, and we feel lucky to be here for it. If we can indulge our self-interest for just a minute, ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/11/05/barack-me-obamadeus/ As we've mentioned before, Sarah Palin is trying to assert herself on the political mainstage via her energy policy. We have no idea why, because her energy policy as it stands now is total gibberish, but she's certainly determined; she recently gave a speech on the matter, blaming decades ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/10/29/palins-plan/ Even though NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered a city-wide switchover to hybrid cabs by 2012, there’s still a fair bit of local resistance to the idea. Some of it has to do with availability – hybrid vehicles are in demand and fleet owners are feeling a bit left behind ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/10/23/if-youre-going-to-san-francisco/ So now that Corn Car readers know how John McCain feels about non-Brazilian ethanol, what does he propose we do instead to decrease our reliance on foreign oil/oil in general? Aside from taking up a collection for the electric car, we weren't really sure. So we did a little research ... http://www.corncar.com/2008/10/18/mccains-ethanolternatives/