When I grew up in the UK, there were often media reports about the National Grid. This was the system across the country that covered the power stations that created electricity and the infrastructure that delivered the power to homes and businesses. The National Grid is in effect a macrogrid - a wide area network. What I have been reading about recently is the concept of … [Read more...]
Biofuels – an Update
All the media coverage today about fuel for logistics and personal transportation is centred on three sources: Diesel - being dirty and polluting, even though the industry is the cleanest it’s been for years. The issues with the VW Group have clouded that discussion. Petrol - and fossil fuels in particular being another source of pollution and political unrest. We have seen … [Read more...]
The MCV CH4
One of the great things about writing motoring articles is that I find many cars that just didn’t make it. This is one of them from the 1990s and some articles blamed the Internet for its demise, however that really wasn’t the cause for the failure. The story begins in Canada during the early 1990s when a team was formed with many complementary skills and all focused on … [Read more...]
Hybrid Power
For this weeks technical article, I thought that it would be good to cover the current and ongoing trend for hybrids. Nearly every time I talk technology I start with a comment that the subject is not new. Well, guess what - hybrid cars aren’t new and are certainly not 21st century vehicles. Back in 1901 the famous engineer, Ferdinand Porsche designed and drove a prototype … [Read more...]
The Rotating Story – Camel Milk to Power a Car
This is one story that I shouldn’t find fascinating based on today’s voracious appetite for “news” sourced through social media but I do. It is a story that keeps reappearing. Back in 2011, a “company" in the United Arab Emirates announced that they were going to develop a supercar called the Dhabyan and it was going to be powered by camel milk! The story goes like this: … [Read more...]
