Archive for category Pointless Green

Danish Hotel Gives Free Meal to Anyone Cycling for 15 Minutes in Their Gym

Posted by Ovidiu in Pointless Green on April 19, 2010

While pointless as a way to really change something in the course of pollution reduction, a Danish hotel found a way to both motivate their customers to go green by pedaling and give them a free $36 meal voucher.

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1998 Volkswagen Scirocco Powered by Coffee Granules

Posted by Mike in Pointless Green on March 9, 2010

Today, the auto field is dominated by vehicles running on electricity or other alternative sources of energy but there is a team from the BBC1 science program “Bang Goes the Theory” who believe that coffee too is a good fuel. They have converted a 1998 Volkswagen Scirocco to run coffee granules, reaching a top speed of 60mph.

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SOccket – A Soccer Ball That Generates and Stores Renewable Energy

Posted by Mike in Pointless Green on February 1, 2010

A group of students at the Harvard University have come up with an ingenious idea that could change the lives of African people. They have developed an energy harvesting soccer ball called sOccket that is able to produce electric energy when being kicked around.

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Pointless Green: Koreans Developing Weird Pedal-Powered Aircraft

Posted by Ovidiu in Pointless Green on December 18, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve laughed at something this funny and pointless on this blog. Well, it looks like the Koreans don’t (or do they?) have a practical sense when they invest $290,000 on a pedal-powered airplane.

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Pedal-Powered Blender: Saving The World One Carrot at a Time

Posted by Ovidiu in Pointless Green on April 9, 2009

After so much seriousness, let’s try and take a look at something else, a new invention that will surely change the way we live, think, and act during our irresponsible ride to the grocery store.

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Do Africans Plan to Produce Energy by Pulling a Roll After Them?

Posted by Ovidiu in Pointless Green on February 26, 2009

An african inventor, by his name Cedrick Ngalande, has invented a device called the Green Erg, that could harness the pulling force of a person or moving vehicle, and convert some of it into electricity. Though I don’t see his invention any soon on any European or US market, it seems some say that it will have a great success in Africa, there where you have to make electricity out of anything.

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