The Microsoft is calling all Web Developers and Designers, to test their latest web browser : Internet Explorer 8 beta. If you are an Internet Explorer fan and interested in testing their beta browser, you can send email at IESO@microsoft.com and tell them a little about yourself including why you’d be a great beta tester.

Searched all over the net, but couldn’t find a decent “free” vector banners that could fit with my new design, so decided to make few! Image below shows few samples made out of banner vector shape. You can download the file and make yourself few like these.

Here’s another set of vector wings. Download and use it as you like.

Well I’ve seen this kind of free vector sticker buttons long ago in some blog, but I couldn’t recall the name of that blog! So I’ve created few for myself and they turned out just good! Feel free to download.

Ethanol (C₂H₅OH), biologically produced fuel could be next alternative fuel to exhausting petroleum, but not limited to, since other alternative fuels other than petroleum are :

• Biodiesal (derived from vegetable oils and animal fats)
• Natural gas (comprised mostly of methane, is one of the cleanest burning alternative fuels.),
• Propane (liquefied petroleum gas LPG) and
• Hydrogen.

Ethanol is cheaper than gasoline, it can be produced using Rice Straw, Wheat straw & Corn stalks etc, it’s a type of alcohol and it burns much cleaner than gasoline, and doesn’t add CO2 to the atmosphere. Since ethanol is made from renewable resources, we won’t have to rely on fossil fuels that are in limited supply and it’s exhausting.

Ethanol industry is only 18 years old, in 1980s a typical ethanol plant itself consumed more energy than it’s production of ethanol. But in last few years ethanol industries have become more energy efficient and sufficient enough to generate electricity from within the plant, in addition in 1970s, ethanol plants didn’t recover waste heat, but today they do . The most common blend of ethanol, E-10 unleaded (blend of 90% ordinary unleaded gasoline with 10% ethanol) is already approved for use by every major automakers in the world. Use of E-10 also helps keep engine clener and cooler, becuase the ethanol combusts at a lower temperature. However more and more ethanol found everywhere these days, many people complain that even 10% of ethanol in their gas makes their automobile engines choke and hurts gas mileage as e10 reduces mileage by about 2 percent.

So what’s holding things Up? is there any ethanol powered cars? well, apparently there are! Flexible fuel vehicles (Flex fuel or FFVs) are already launched and are designed to run on E85, a much higher ethanol blend of about 85% ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. A flex fuel vehicles experiences no loss in performances when operating on E85, however a gallon of ethanol contains less energy than a gallon of gasoline, E85 vechle gets about 20-30 % fewer miles per gallon. See the above car on the picture is Lotus Exige 265E, which is fueled by E85 and accelerates from 0-60mph in just 3.9 seconds.