In Oregon, the Hood River Valley High School Earth Club turned a dream into reality by installing a small wind turbine next to their football field. Students who are interested in alternative energy did the legwork to make sure the 1.8 kilowatt wind turbine would fly high as a symbol of their commitment to green […]
Continue ReadingThe Shelby Ultimate Aero EV Supercar has been unveiled along with some tantalizing details about this speed demon. Taking on the Tesla is no easy task, but the Shelby Aero EV reported can sprint from 0 to 60 mph in an amazing 2.5 seconds. This is not your father’s electric car. The top speed is […]
Continue ReadingLast week I talked about how California regulators (mainly CARB) may decide to kill the aftermarket for plug-in vehicles this week. In 2010, if this deadline holds up both GM and Toyota will rollout their first commercial plug-in hybrid vehicles. GM will rollout the Chevy Volt and Toyota a plug-in Prius. But, where does this […]
Continue ReadingWind power may be an intermittent source of energy and so too may be the job market associated with this industry. At least this is the report over at Earth2Tech where they are talking about several wind power companies who have announced layoffs because of the faltering economy. One of the companies that has not […]
Continue ReadingYou would think that after the “Who Killed the Electric Car” debacle that the California Air Resources Board (CARB), one of the key conspirators, would want to reverse their image and do what is really in the public’s best interest. But, cutting tailpipe emissions on cars, may just be a smokescreen according to the East […]
Continue ReadingSometimes there is just too much good news all at one time when it comes to the alternative fuel vehicle sector. This is the case today when BMW has announced that 10 Mini E electric cars are coming to New York and the bio fuelled Parajet Skycar is set to take to the skies. The […]
Continue ReadingThe MYT (Massive Yet Tiny) engine is the brainchild of Raphial Morgado, who spent a cool $1 million developing the first prototype in 2001. In the summer of 2007, I saw my first Youtube video on the MYT Engine and was blown away by the size and design of this cleaning burning ICE (internal combustion […]
Continue ReadingThe 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is in full swing now and one of the darlings of the show is the Kinesis K2 wind and solar charger. Over the past year, small hand solar chargers have been coming into their own for recharging all sorts of small electronic devices. But, small […]
Continue ReadingEnergy-hungry China has decided to embrace hydropower as one renewable method to satisfy its growing need. In 2008, the use of large hydropower systems in China grew by 19.5-percent accounting for around 16.4 percent of the country’s total output. A couple of weeks ago China opened up its third largest hydropower station in the country. […]
Continue ReadingA tiny fuel cell just 3 mm across that will fit on one’s fingertip has been created by engineers at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. U of I engineers Saeed Moghaddam and Mark Shannon created a tiny fuel cell that has just four components. The fuel cell components include a water reservoir, a metal […]
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