The Eclectic from Venturi of France reminds me of a horse & carriage era, but without the horse. This modern take on buggy comes with solar panels on the roof to power the electric motor using NiMH batteries. There’s even a wind turbine to recharge those batteries while in motion. Unfortunately it’s not enough to [...]
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I came across this intriguing article by Lara Farra from CNN about solar farms out in space. According to the article an “American scientist Peter Glaser introduced the idea of space solar power in 1968.” How do you suppose that energy gets sent back to earth? By a long power cord? Nope it’s electromagnetically beamed [...]
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How embarrassing for a U.S. President to go begging the Saudi’s to increase oil production in order to lower fuel prices at home. A simply solution is to cut the oil subsidies to bloated oil companies who made record profits in the billions and reinvest it in companies like SOLIX and GREENFUEL Technologies to eliminate [...]
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Check out PopularMechanics article on Hybrid Technologies all electric sports car that will go 150-180 miles. Running on Lithium Ion batteries targeted for 220 mpg. Can this thing beat a Corvette ZR1 600+ horsepower?
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Do you have a projection television that frequently needs bulb replacement? Luxim’s solid-state high intensity LiFi bulb will put an end to that. Their plasma bulbs can last thousands of hours, it’s brighter, very compact, and more efficient. A typical house hold bulb generates about 15 lumens per watt, an LED about 70 lumens, and [...]
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Here’s a cool device that captures the sun’s light to be used as interior lighting for retail shops or office buildings. It’s primary sun collector mirror reflects the light to a smaller secondary mirror to filter out the UV and infrared wavelengths to eliminate the heat. From there the light gets directed to the fiber [...]
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Ever went camping or doing anything outdoors and don’t have access to an outlet? I’ve been on a camping trip where I would run out my cell phone batteries trying to coordinate with my friends on a camp site. This IceTech solar charger that I came across on CNET’s crave would have come in handy. [...]
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The X Prize Foundation originally headquartered in Rockville, MD was started by Dr. Peter H. Diamandis who was inspired by the story of Charles Lindbergh, “The Spirit of St. Louis” who flew the non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927. That same excitement to entice the public to innovate lives on today [...]
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The new EcoZone Project TV show hosted by Daisy Fuentes and the green team of Ron Livingston, Patrick Warburton, Allison Janney, Scott Wolf will help you make your living space eco-friendly. They have webisodes if you missed the show. For those who love shopping and want to help the environment, these green sites have earth [...]
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Who knew that water could be so powerful. Sure it can, a fast moving water source can carve out a canyon, of course it’ll take hundreds of years to do it, but powerful none the less. The reason why I’m stressing H2O is because of founder Dennis Klein who discovered and patented an electrolysis process [...]
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