Posts Tagged as ‘alternative-energy’

August 8, 2008

No Surprise

This morning, as a follow-up to the story on NGV, a bus was filling its tank at a service station in Thailand and KABOOM!
 
Police say that the tank did not meet standards for holding NGV. No one was killed, but one worker was injured and a few vehicles sustained damage.
 
This is a serious issue that [...]

August 7, 2008

Getting a Bang Out of NGV

Warnings in the newspapers in Thailand about the hazards of NGV tanks have a lot of people thinking twice about converting their vehicles.
 
The fact is, there are hundreds of qualified mechanics who can convert a gas powered vehicle to a Natural Gas Vehicle in Thaialnd, but there are a couple of caveats to this. One [...]

July 28, 2008

Bad Press for Volvo

Chiang Mai is in the north central area of Thailand. Not to blame Volvo, although headlines make it look as though it’s Volvo’s fault.
 
Alright, you’re asking, what is he talking about?
 
Here’s just one of the headlines; “Volvo with LPG explodes”
 
If you were to read deeper into the article you would find that a man purchased [...]

July 3, 2008

BANGKOK’S Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind

The energy crunch is world wide. The price of a barrel of oil has risen nearly 50 percent since the beginning of the year.
 
The bandwagon of climate change and global warming has standing room only.
 
Your wallet is fatter because you need to carry more money to buy the same things you have been buying, [...]