Alternative Fuel Technologies

References

References

Clipart of a book and highlighter (taken from MS Office)We compiled our information from the following list.  If you think it looks long, just imagine how long it took to read all these articles! (Technical note: the [Back] links on this page work best while viewing the website in either Internet Explorer or Netscape.)

Hybrid Vehicles

1) "California Gov Signs Global-Warming Bill" Union of Concerned Scientists, <http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/california-gov-signs-globalwarming-bill.html> Accessed: March 20th, 2007. Accessed: March 20, 2007. [Back]

2) "The Emergence of Hybrid Vehicles" Alliance Bernstein, <http://www.evworld.com/library/PHEV_AllianceBernstein.pdf> Accessed: March 23, 2007. [Back]

3) "Hybrid Electric Vehicles: What is a Hybrid Electric Vehicle?" U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Program, <http://www.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/hev/what_is_hev.html> Accessed: March 20, 2007. [Back]

4) "Los Alamos National Laboratory News" Public Affairs Office, <http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/
story_id/4317/view/print> Accessed: March 21, 2007. [Back]

5) "How Hyrbids Work" US Department of Energy, <http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/hybridtech.shtml> Accessed: March 18, 2007. [Back]

6) "Battery-Electric vs. Hybrid-Electric Vehicles" Rocky Mountain Institute, <http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid447.php> Accessed: March 20, 2007. [Back]

7) "Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles" Electric Drive Transportation Association, <http://www.electricdrive.org/index.php?tg=articles&topics=131> Accessed: March 20, 2007. [Back]

8) "Hybrid Cars Take To The Road" The Good Life Magazine, <http://www.goodlifemag.com/archives/03-06/03-06_hybridcars.htm> Accessed: March 20, 2007. [Back]

9) "Hybrid Car Gas Mileage Impact Calculator" HybridCars.com <http://www.hybridcars.com/calculator/index.php> Accessed: March 20, 2007. [Back]

Ethanol Fuels

1) “Environmental Benefits” Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, <www.greenfuels.org> Accessed: March 16, 2007. [Back]

2) “Henry Ford and Fuel Ethanol” Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, <www.greenfuels.org> Accessed: March 16, 2007. [Back]

3) Reel, Monte, “Brazil’s Road to Energy Independence” The Washington Post, August 20, 2006. <www.washingtonpost.com>  [Back]

4) “How Ethanol is Made” Renewable Fuels Association, <http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/made> Accessed: March 9, 2007. [Back]

5) Wang, Michael, “Updated Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Results for Ethanol Fuels” The 15th International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels, September 26-28, 2005. [Back]

6) Wang, Michael, and Pantini, Dan, “Corn Based Ethanol Does Indeed Achieve Energy Benefits” Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratories, February 15, 2000. [Back]

7) Pimental, David, “Ethanol Fuels: Energy Balance, Economics and Environmental Impact are all Negative” Natural Resources Research, 17 (2), 127-134 (2003). [Back]

8) Niven, Robert K., “Ethanol in gasoline: environmental impacts and sustainability review article” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 9 (2003) 535-555. [Back]

9) “What is Cellulose Ethanol” Iogen Corporation, <http://www.iogen.ca/cellulose_ethanol/what_is_ethanol/
index.html>  Accessed: March 15, 2007. [Back]

10) Horkey, Lacey Rose, “Cellulosic Ethanol: Harvesting the Potential” Ethanol Today, October 2006. [Back]

11) "Knowledge about E85" US Department of Energy: FreedomCar and Vehicles Technologies Program. <http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/
2006_fcvt_fotw441.html> Accessed Jan 13, 2007. [Back]

12) "What are the differences in an FFV compared to a regular gasoline-only vehicle?" National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition, <www.e85fuel.com/e85101/faqs/differences.php> Accessed: March 17, 2007. [Back]

13) "Alternative Fuels Data Center" US Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, <http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/altfuel/fuel_properties.html> Accessed: March 31, 2007. [Back]

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

1) "Antimatter: what is it? Something exotic and not real?" Bologna. Ancient university. <http://www.scienzagiovane.unibo.it/english/antimatter/1-antimatter-what.html> Accessed: March 9, 2007. [Back]

2) B. Feldman, “Hydrogen Fuel Cell Automobiles” Phys. Teach. 43, 492-495 (2005). [Back]

3) “Fuel Cell Stack Welding” Semiconductor International, <http://www.reed-electronics.com/semiconductor/article/CA6420790?spacedesc=webex> Accessed: March 29, 2007. [Back]

4) "Natural Gas Reforming" Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program, US Department of Energy, <http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/
production/natural_gas.html> Accessed: January 16, 2007. [Back]

5) Harwood, Herring, Petrucci. General Chemistry. Prentice-Hall Inc. 1997 Pg. 423. [Back]

6) “Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research” National Renewable Energy Laborator, <http://www.nrel.gov/hydrogen/photos.html?print> Accessed: February 23, 2007. [Back]

7) “High Temperature Electrolysis” Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_electrolysis> Accessed: February 21, 2007. [Back]

8) Johanna Ivy, "Summary of Electrolytic Hydrogen Production" Milestone Report, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (2004). [Back]

9) George Thomas, “Overview of Storage Development”, US DOE Hydrogen Program 2000 Annual Review, (2000). [Back]

10) L. Schlapback and A. Zuttel, “Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications” Nature 414, 353-358 (2001). [Back]

11) Phil Danielson, “Choosing the right vacuum materials”, R&D Magazine, 2003. [Back]

12) J. F. Pelletier, et al, “Hydrogen desoprtion mechanism in MgH2-Nb nanocomposites” Phys. Rev. B 63, 052103 (2001). [Back]

13) "Paving the Way for the Hydrogen Future” Berkeley Lab, <http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2005/August/01-hydrogen-future.html> Accessed: March 8, 2007. [Back]

14) “Nanotechnology Applications in Hydrogen Storage” Nanopedia, <http://nanopedia.case.edu/NWPrint.php?page=nano.hydrogen.storage> Accessed: March 8, 2007. [Back]

Energy Comparison

1) "Alternative Fuels Data Center" US Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, <http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/altfuel/fuel_properties.html> Accessed: March 31, 2007. [Back]

2) “Car Chemistry: What’s the Deal With Octane Ratings?” American Chemical Society, <http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/feature_ent.html?id=ebf8fc8c270511d7f0e46ed9fe800100> Accessed: March 29, 2007. [Back]

Take A Poll

1) “Public Opinions on Hybrids 2005” US Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, <http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/
2006_fcvt_fotw440.html>Accessed: April 5, 2007.

2) “Knowledge About E85” US Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, <http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/
2006_fcvt_fotw441.html> Accessed: April 5, 2007.

3) “Best and Worst Fuel to Replace Gasoline” US Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, <http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/
fotw459.html> Accessed: April 5, 2007.

4) “Opinions on Hydrogen Fueling Stations” US Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, <http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/
2006_fcvt_fotw423.html> Accessed: April 5, 2007.

















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