Archive for category Green Designs

The Bizzarrini Veleno: Future’s Most Innovative Hydrogen Car Design

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs on March 28, 2012

Is it just me or this car looks like an alien spaceship? And the name suggests it too: Bizzarrini, which makes you think of bizarre… Well, apparently it’s not what its creator Coventry University Transport Design graduate Borys Dabrowski intended to: he just wanted to bring a homage to the famous Giotto Bizzarrini and amaze [...]

New Fuel-Efficient Supersonic Biplane Could Break the Sound Barrier

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs on March 22, 2012

If you remember the Concorde, its story was pretty sad: a good plane but tainted with bad luck! It offered very short flights but the pricey tickets and the noisy trips just got to be too much for its passengers. So it exited the market in 2003. Today, MIT researcher Qiqi Wang thought about reviving [...]

ATC Solar Curve – A Wireless Solar Charger for Electric Buses

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs on February 29, 2012

Just as EVs have charging stations of their own, it’s only natural that buses should have that, too. The only thing is that keeping a tight schedule for electric public transportation may prove a bit of a challenge. Still, it can be done and the Dutch city of Noord-Brabant is here to show us how. [...]

SeaTwirl – New Offshore Wind Turbine Produces Cheap Electricity

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs, Wind Power on October 1, 2011

Many scientists and researchers are trying to find the best solutions to harness offshore winds and generate clean electricity. All have concluded that the basic design of any wind turbine is that of a classic windmill. Daniel Ehrnberg, the owner of the Ehrnberg Solutions AB, has created the design of a new offshore turbine called [...]

Mr. Beam – Amazingly Green Virtual Light-Powered Redecorations

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green Designs, Power Saving on April 30, 2011

Now, everyone who’s ever done a redecoration of their home knows how time and energy wasting is to buy the bed, then realize that the color won’t fit the color of the wall, or that you wanted another model for the table, wall clock etc.

T-box: A New Device That Harnesses Wind Energy Produced by Running Trains

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs, Wind Power on March 24, 2011

Designers Ale Leonetti Luparinia and Qian Jiang have come up with a new concept of a device that uses the wind energy produced by a running train. As the designers claim, the device, dubbed T-box, is a power generator that is able to harnesses wind power when a train moves across the tracks.

AERO-E: A Cool Wind-Powered Wireless Induction Phone Charger Prototype

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green Designs, Wind Power on March 7, 2011

Small gadgets like phones usually have small chargers, but they often get forgotten plugged in when you wake up in the morning and hurry up to go to work. These often-called “energy vampires” now have a solution – a wind-powered phone charger, actually a design that may just catch if someone will stick to it.

NEWEN: Totally Portable Wind/Solar Harvesting Unit Design

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs, Solar Power, Wind Power on March 2, 2011

Argentinean designer Francisco Tablado has recently designed an autonomous power unit dubbed NEWEN that taps into green electricity for all of your power needs while camping. It is also capable of providing energy to temporary shelters and housing units.

Justin Capra: The Green-Hearted Creator of The Jetpack and Several Alternative Inventions

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Efficient engines, Green Designs on January 20, 2011

After presenting Vasile Karpen and his wonderful but yet not understood invention of the battery that’s been running for 60 years, now it’s time for another brilliant Romanian green-hearted genius: Justin Capra, the original inventor of the jet pack.

New Portable Wind Turbine Produces Electricity Anywhere And Is Operated By Just One Person

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs, Wind Power on September 29, 2010

Designers have come up with a new portable wind turbine that is very easy to be transported and put into function by just one person. Dubbed the “Mobile Wind Turbine”, it includes a hybrid carrier that uses electricity harnessed from wind energy to run. The wind turbine is also equipped with an electric traction motor [...]

Superbus: An All-Electric Vehicle Concept Unveiled by TU Delft

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Electric Vehicles, Green Designs on September 25, 2010

The Delft University of Technology has recently presented in Germany at the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA) in Hannover, its latest “green” vehicle concept.

Daimler Planning To Unveil New "Smart eScooter" At The 2010 Paris Auto Show

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Electric Vehicles, Green Designs on September 22, 2010

Daimler, one of the world’s largest car manufacturers is planning to unveil the new” Smart eScooter” at the 2010 Paris Auto Show. Having zero carbon dioxide emissions, the battery-powered eScooter is able to reach a top speed of 28 mph and also has an all-electric range of more than 60 miles.

Green Pass: The Award-Winning Turnstile That Powers Itself

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green Designs on September 10, 2010

What can a hundred thousand Chinese people do when entering the subway? Produce power, of course! A team called “VIVA design”, from the Guangdong University of Technology in China, have retrofitted those turnstiles at the subway entrances to produce electricity whenever someone passes through.

Wind Tunnel Concept Converts Wind Energy Generated by Subway Trains into Electricity

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs, Wind Power on September 6, 2010

Metropolitan cities around the world build more and more underground subway systems in order to minimize the number of vehicles on the roads. The industrial designers also though to help city authorities by redesigning the current systems, making them more efficient.

Concrete Bases to Increase Wind Turbine Efficiency for Better Power Production

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Green Designs, Wind Power on August 30, 2010

The use of concrete bases can prove significantly profitable, considering wind turbine towers, as this has to do with diminishing, by more than two-thirds, the quantity of concrete used for the footings of a single tower.