Mihai Sandru

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Brothers Build Abu Dhabi’s First Viable Recycling Service

Posted in Green News on May 16, 2012

Apparently, the United Arab Emirates have a problem with recycling: even if you, as a simple citizen, were to have this initiative, it would almost seem an adventure. The only way to do it is by driving to remote collection points, which discourages the general population and lowers the recycling level below 10%. Conscious of [...]

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Couple Drives 1626.1 Miles in Diesel-Powered 2012 VW Passat

Posted in Efficient engines on May 15, 2012

Remember when you used to say clean vehicles couldn’t take you very far? John and Helen Taylor prove you wrong: after 90 fuel economy and vehicle-related records around the world, they have decided to go for one more. What came out of that is a new record for the longest distance covered on one tank [...]

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Revolutionary Butane-Powered Backup Charger to Hit Market This Year

Posted in Green Electronics on May 11, 2012

A 10-year-old MIT spinoff, Lilliputian Systems is now ready to commercialize a portable charger that, if priced correctly, will revolutionize batteries and backup charging for mobile devices. It runs on butane and contains a revolutionary fuel cell that transforms the liquid into electricity. The device will be retailed through Brookstone and will probably hit the market [...]

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How to Make Your Own Solar Cell From a Bunch of Scrap Diodes (Video)

Posted in How to..., Video on May 10, 2012

Buying photovoltaic panels from the store and installing them can prove a costly process, so why not try making a pair of your own at home? Warning: they may not generate much electricity, while losing some of it, but if it works, wouldn’t it be a shame not to have tried? Especially since you don’t [...]

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Zinc Anode Smart Battery System Carries Electric and Financial Savings for Buildings

Posted in Energy Storage on May 9, 2012

The CUNY Energy Institute has built its “fame” on the production of batteries that are safe, non-toxic, and reliable but still have a reasonable price. Now the company has poured all that know-how into a prototype zinc anode battery system in an attempt to surpass nickel cadmium batteries or make lead-acid ones redundant. However, one [...]

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Denso’s Air Conditioning System Customizes Your Car Aircon and Saves Gas

Posted in Power Saving on May 8, 2012

Did you ever fight the driver of a car because he wanted to turn on the air conditioning and you didn’t, afraid that you might catch a cold? Or the other way around? No need to worry from now on – everybody in the car can enjoy their own, personalized air climate thanks to Denso [...]

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Volta Volare GT4 – The Plug-In Hybrid Plane That Eliminates Range Anxiety

Posted in Hybrid vehicles on May 7, 2012

If electric vehicles sound scary (because of range anxiety), how do electric planes sound? Being stranded on the ground is nothing compared to getting stranded in the sky! But have no fear, the GT4 is here! More precisely, the Volta Volare GT4 from an aeronautics company in Portland, Oregon is a plug-in hybrid plane to [...]

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IHS Unveils West Africa’s Largest Solar Powered Cellular Site

Posted in Solar Power on May 4, 2012

Should someone have told you a few years ago that it would only take 2 years to reduce diesel consumption by up to 50% for the cellular communications towers in West Africa, you’d have raised an eyebrow. This not the case anymore: IHS Africa, a major telecommunications infrastructure provider, can from now count the largest [...]

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K1 Evelio Could Become a Real Competitor For Tesla Roadster

Posted in Electric Vehicles on May 3, 2012

Of course, before you’ll have read this article, your eyes will instinctively have looked at the picture first and what you’ll have seen will most probably seem to you as come off from a movie about the future. I mean, isn’t the K1 Evelio a sight? However, besides being a sight, it’s a fuel efficient [...]

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Honda Demonstrates How Its Smart Home System Integrates Electric Cars, Solar Panels and The Grid

Posted in Green Buildings on May 2, 2012

Far from making you feel like your house has a mind of its own, the Honda Smart Home System (HSHS) pertaining to the famous automotive company Honda Motor Co., Ltd wants to reach a whole new level of energy efficiency. To prove it, the company embarked yesterday on a house demonstration in Saitama, Japan and [...]

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Wood Waste Converted to Biofuel by Fast Pyrolysis

Posted in Biodiesel on May 1, 2012

Pulp and paper company Domtar from Montreal and Battelle, an independent research and development specialist in Columbus, Ohio chose Domtar’s mill operations in Dryden, Ontario to test fast pyrolysis: oxygen-free heating for the conversion of biomass (wood chips) into biofuel. The role of Battelle in all this comes in looking for a bigger market value – [...]

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47% Efficiency for Solar Cells With Microscopic Folds and Wrinkles

Posted in Solar Power on April 30, 2012

Researchers have so far bent over backwards to find the best way to make solar cells as efficient as possible and just when you thought this is it – this one’s the best, here comes another one, claiming the exact same thing. So let’s hear the “microscopic folds” formula out, which reclaims an efficiency of [...]

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Asteroids Could Be Future Source of Water and Precious Materials

Posted in Green News on April 27, 2012

Some would say it’s a long shot, some that it’s pure science fiction, but the challenge is on: mining asteroids for water, platinum, nickel and iron has never seemed more real than now! The initiative belongs to Google founders Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and X-Prize creator Peter Diamandis. With the hovering threat of resource [...]

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30% Less Fuel Consumption for Cargo Ships of 2016

Posted in Power Saving on April 26, 2012

First, they looked at cars to reduce fuel usage. Then they looked at airplanes. Next thing you know, they’ve taken to the sea to make some overconsumption cuts! The Wind Challenger Project from the University of Tokyo has returned to the basics in an effort to bring down the amount of fuel large merchant vessels [...]

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Arctic Melt to Release Huge Quantities of Methane, NASA Mission Concludes

Posted in Global Warming on April 26, 2012

The HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) airborne campaign set out a campaign to see where greenhouse gases come from and where are they stored in our planet’s system. So they flew specially instrumented aircraft over the Pacific Ocean from nearly pole to pole. Between 2009 and 2010, they measured at a 8.7 miles height from the [...]

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