Florin, Author at The Green Optimistic

A Cleaner And More Efficient Way to Capture Carbon Dioxide

Florin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:25:04 +0000

The process of separating CO2 from its source is called capturing (CO2). The new method discovered by the scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory might replace all the existing Carbon Dioxide capturing devices and improve a lot their performance and stability.

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Electric Cars Coming from China

Florin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:40:50 +0000

As many producers announce their hybrid or electric cars, it's a more obvious sign that the future is for electric cars.
There is a competition to be the first one to produce electric cars and have them on the road.

China is trying to get on the track for this and they will try to produce 500 000 electric cars in the next two years. It might not sound much, but compared to the 2100 produced last year, it's a great evolution.

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Greenhouse Gas 4,800x More Potent Than CO2 Thought Safe

Florin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:58:38 +0000

In the late 1980s, during the Montreal Protocol that set rules for the chlorofluorocarbon emissions, methyl bromide was about to become a target, to reduce it for saving the ozone layer. So, from a poplar compound used in agriculture, it became an "outlaw".

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75% Efficient Solar Powered Air Conditioning System

Florin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:35:00 +0000

Le Lievre, co-founder and former CEO of Ausra, now founder of Chromasun, is planning to launch a very efficient solar powered air conditioning system in the first quarter of 2010.

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Charge Your Electric Car Battery in 5 Minutes

Florin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:38:47 +0000

We all like our phone Li-Io batteries as we can charge them over and over again, with little performance loss in time. And the weight is also little. But it takes one hour or more for a phone, and when we use Lithium Ion in car batteries, it takes maybe 9 hours for a full charge.

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Possible Preview of a Future Electric BMW?

Florin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:56:08 +0000

Few people know about Magna. Magna is an Austrian car company that recently showed the MILA EV concept, an electric car. What is the connection with BMW?

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Nissan Makes Fast Electric Car Charging Network in Arizona

Florin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:55:15 +0000

Arizona is the testing ground for a new electric car charge network Nissan is going to develop.

The project is being created with ECOtality and Pima government association and is going to provide the electric support for the new electric cars Nissan will lauch in the US next year.

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Namir: The World's Fastest Hybrid Car

Florin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:50:41 +0000

A few days ago, the Geneva Motor Show was the event where we could see the hybrid that can travel 187 mph (almost 301 km/hour), or 2,000 km without recharging or refilling.

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ZTE Coral 200: The $40 Eco-Friendly Solar Powered Phone

Florin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:07:53 +0000

Until now many of us know about Samsung's environment friendly phone, Blue Earth. It is made of recycled plastic, and the difference between it and other devices is that it can recharge itself, as it is equipped with solar panels.

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First American GM Hybrid Sold in the US Cheaper than Prius

Florin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:24:20 +0000

Saturn Aura is going to be the first hybrid GM is launching on the US market, as a direct competitor for Toyota Prius. Only in 2006, Toyota sold 107,000 Prius units, creating a big popularity of the hybrid.

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Iron Pyrite Used for Cheaper Solar Panels

Florin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:25:32 +0000

Many of today's solar panels use silicon for transforming solar energy into electrical energy. But this is not only quite expensive, but also can be in shortage.

The study the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has performed and recently published tells us that there are many cheaper and abundant alternatives to silicon. One of them is iron pyrite, a quite common resource.

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First Affordable Mass Produced Electric Car in the World Comes from Volkswagen

Florin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:17:43 +0000

In Frankfurt - Germany, Europe's biggest car manufacturer, Volkswagen and the Japanese group Toshiba signed an agreement to develop the new VW electric cars together.

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More Efficient Biomass Heater from Japanese Scientists

Florin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:11:08 +0000

East Asian countries have an abundance of low efficiency, high carbon dioxide emitting heating sources. The Japanese scientists are working to develop new heating systems, with less harmful environmental impact.

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Your New Inexpensive Vietnamese Electric Scooter

Florin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:04:30 +0000

Although electric scooters are already on the market, they are rather slow and expensive. Sufat, a Vietnamese company is planning to produce a new electric scooter, able to easily drive 55 miles per hour and accelerating from 0 to 50 mph in less than 10 seconds.

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Cheap New Electrochemical Flue Gas Purificaton for Diesel Engines

Florin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:37:28 +0000

In Europe half of the cars sold are using diesel engines. The pollution from these cars (carbon particles, nitrogen oxides NOX and unburned hydrocarbons) is to be more strictly restricted by the EU regulations.

RisÃƒÆ’¸ Danish Technical University has started a new project to develop an effective method for making diesel engines cleaner.

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First Volt Hybrid in Europe – Opel Ampera at Geneva Motor Show

Florin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:13:27 +0000

Remember the article about the GM's Chevrolet Volt? Not much time has passed and now Opel is talking about their hybrid car, Opel Ampera, created on the same technology as Volt.

The new car will be released at 2009's..

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BMW's New 116D (Diesel) as Efficient as Today's Hybrids

Florin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:01:48 +0000

German vehicle constructor BMW is trying to show us that it can produce not only fast, luxury and fuel-greedy vehicles, but also very fuel-efficient cars.

BMW's 1 series is offering the greenest diesel experience from BMW. The 2 liters four-cylinder diesel...

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Plastic Solar Cells: Your Next Gadget’s Cheap Power Source

Florin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:44:13 +0000

Portable electronic devices have from now on a new technology invented for making the battery life longer or making them to work completely on solar energy.

The plastic solar cells with eight square inches in size...

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Whiskey Industry Products to Fuel Power Plant

Florin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:36:13 +0000

Helius Energy plc and The Combination of Rothes Distillers Limited (CoRD) are planning to change the fuel for the power plant in Speyside, Scotland. The interesting thing is that they will change the "traditional" fuel to products resulted from whiskey producing process, in order to reduce the carbon emissions.

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First Luxury Hybrid in the World Coming From Lexus

Florin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:23:59 +0000

There's nothing new when we hear that Toyota launches a new hybrid. But now it's a little different, as we are talking about the first luxury hybrid in the world, created by Lexus this time (Toyota's luxury trademark).

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Ontario Region Switches Coal with Biomass

Florin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:27:44 +0000

The company that produces the energy in Ontario, OPG - Ontario Power Generation started the process of finding providers for biomass fuel, by sending a "call for expression of interest" to those interested to change the coal to biogas for producing the electricity in the region.
The company is looking forward to create the list with...

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Obama Changes US to Green

Florin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:33:18 +0000

A long time ago, President Obama announced his agenda as very different from what we are used to. He lets us see that US economy can not only not lose, but also win from keeping environmental policies at the front.

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StARS: Start-Stop Hybrid System Reducing Fuel Consumption Up to 25%

Florin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:45:16 +0000

In the battle to have the most efficient engines, one of the biggest allies is the European Union and the laws they make to force the car companies to lower the harmful emissions. By 2012 they set a maximum of 130 g/km carbon-dioxide (CO2) emission.

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I Charge My Batteries With Water. How About You?

Florin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:26:20 +0000

You go somewhere for the holidays. You have your mp3 player to forget about the "dead times" during not-so-interesting-travels. But what? Suddenly your mp3 player stops working! Noooo!

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Ford hybrid and electric cars vs GM Volt electric car

Florin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:52:56 +0000

Nowadays, the Japanese constructors are well ahead others in having electric cars. Honda and Toyota have the dominating positions in our top and they are announcing more to come in the following year. US manufacturers are late, one probable reason was that in the US the fuel price is not as high as in other parts of the globe.

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Toyota Planning to Release a Full Electric Car

Florin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:09:12 +0000

I was wondering what else is Toyota doing for a complete environmentally friendly car. And there was the FT-EV concept.

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