Have you gotten a little cranky because you’re unable to use your portable solar charger at night to recharge your cell phone, GPS or other portable device? Are you even more cranky since you’re miles from nowhere and need just five minutes of juice to do what you need to do. Well, instead of getting […]
Continue ReadingRonn Motors of Austin, Texas yesterday unveiled their Scorpion exotic car, which can flat out run. Not only that, it exceeds current and future U. S. CAFÉ standard for automobile gas mileage. With zero to 60 mph acceleration in under 4 seconds, the Ronn Scorpion fits well in the supercar class. But, it’s also a […]
Continue ReadingIn Elgin, Illinois, Sherman Health is building a new hospital that will be heated and cooled by a 15-acre lake. By using the 17-foot deep artificial lake’s natural geothermal properties the hospital will be kept at an even temperature all year long, saving the facility a cool $1 million in utility bills. When the new […]
Continue ReadingThe beef against residential solar panels for so many years is that they have been too expensive to install upon one’s home. But, at least in California the price of residential solar panels will be coming down considerably. A bill passed by state Assemblyman Mark Leno (no relation to Jay Leno) has just passed 76-0 […]
Continue ReadingOn Leap Year Day this year (February 29) I had talked about a new solar iPhone charger that was on the market from Freeloader. Now, Apple has taken a leap of its own by filing for a patent for a solar iPhone 2.0. Of course photovoltaic cells on small portable devices have been around for […]
Continue ReadingThe hydrogen gas saver is a device that electrolyzes water and injects the resulting H2 (hydrogen) and O (oxygen) into the vehicle’s intake. This results in increased gas mileage, increased torque, decreased emissions and a cleaner burn inside the engine reducing deposits and general wear. I’ve talked about a specific hydrogen gas saver here and […]
Continue ReadingGasoline-powered plug-in hybrids are so yesterday’s news and hydrogen plug-in hybrids are most probably the future. But, in the here and now, Odyne Corporation has unveiled the first compressed natural gas (CNG) plug-in hybrid refuse vehicle in the world. The city of Fresno, California held a press conference yesterday announcing that the new Odyne CNG […]
Continue ReadingResearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new methanol fuel cell that is 50-percent more efficient that other comparable FC’s. This direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), according to MIT Professor Paula Hammond is cost-effective, highly tunable and has more output than a comparable material called Nafion. In fact, Hammond says the […]
Continue ReadingThis week a couple of important solar breakthroughs have surfaced in the news. Both IBM and Physicist Bram Hoex (and colleagues) have demonstrated two different solar breakthroughs worth noting. The IBM solar breakthrough involves using a thin liquid metal layer of gallium and indium that is cooled by a plate of copper. By use of […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about a couple of residential wind turbines in the past such as the MagLev and the Helix. Both of these are fine units. But, now I’d like to talk about the Air-X residential wind turbine that helps homeowners save energy while shelling out only a few hundred dollars. Solar is another way to […]
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