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Snails Producing Electricity for Mad Scientists With Aid of Biofuel Cells
Posted by Mihai Sandru in Pointless Green on March 19, 2012
Scientists at the Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York have discovered another way in which snails could be useful, besides being eaten as a French delicacy: they can provide electrical power! Of course, the need for finding alternative sources of energy is indeed great, but it hasn’t yet come to this – using snails. What [...]
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World's Shortest Range EV Features New Li-Ion Capacitor As Power Source
Posted by Mihai Sandru in Electric Vehicles, Pointless Green on June 20, 2011
FDK Corporation in collaboration with Takayanagi Co Ltd has developed a new single-seater electric vehicle. The electric car is also equipped with a lithium ion capacitor that, according to the two companies, is able to charge it in under a minute. This could be the reason why the car has a range of just 5 km per charge.
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Solar Powered Ovens Made From Pizza Boxes Ehxibited on NYC Streets
Posted by Mihai Sandru in Pointless Green, Solar Power on May 30, 2011
While the green technology might still be a new thing for many, something our mind needs to get adjusted with, some other people already understood that this is their future. Or at least that’s what students from 2 high schools in New York proved last week at the Union Square Greenmarket, when they showed up with a couple of green solar powered ovens.
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The Stirling Racer: Nice But Expensive Stirling Engine Toy Powered By The Sun
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Pointless Green, Stirling engine on November 23, 2010
It’s nice for a toy, but difficult to understand when it comes to explaining the true greenness of this invention. A stirling engine-powered toy just hit the market recently, combining a 194-year-old engine concept touted today for its fuel flexibility with solar power-the baby that modern science wants to grow.
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Logitech's Solar Powered Wireless Keyboard: Pointless Green In a Plastic Case
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green Electronics, Pointless Green on November 2, 2010
A solar powered keyboard has been launched by Logitech yesterday. Not only it will announce you through a special software that it needs recharging, the innovative keyboard also saves precious power… in vain.
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Danish Hotel Gives Free Meal to Anyone Cycling for 15 Minutes in Their Gym
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru 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 Mihai Sandru 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 [...]
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SOccket – A Soccer Ball That Generates and Stores Renewable Energy
Posted by Mihai Sandru 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 Sandru 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 Sandru 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 Sandru 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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