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Energy Floors Transform Kinetic Energy from Dancing into Electricity

Posted by Mike Sandru in Uncategorized on May 4, 2013

Floors which harvest kinetic energy to produce electricity have already been used in sports arenas with implementation in running tracks and fields. This development is now coming to nightclubs with Energy Floors, the name behind the design, producing an LED-lit floor that transforms dance moves into electricity. Available in many sizes, the Energy Floors feature modular [...]

Aston Martin Hydrogen Hybrid Race Car to Compete the 24 Hours of Nürburgring

Posted by Benji Jerew in Uncategorized on April 15, 2013

Many new automobile technologies are proven on the race track, and Aston Martin’s hydrogen hybrid race car is going to do just that when it competes next month on the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. If the track is the best way to prove a vehicle’s fitness for the road, then the 24 Hours of Nürburgring [...]

Toxic Nuclear Waste at Contaminated Site May Explode, Defense Agency Warns

Posted by Leigh Kim in Uncategorized on April 4, 2013

On Monday, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board expressed concerns that stored toxic, nuclear waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the most contaminated site in the United States, could explode. Hanford was created in the 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret project to create the atomic bomb. Over the years, the US has [...]

Mercedes Benz B-Class Electric Vehicle, Powered by Tesla Motors

Posted by Benji Jerew in Uncategorized on March 29, 2013

The first Benz electric vehicle at $500,000 is out of reach of most of the buying public, but their second one might be a little more down to earth. We recently covered the announcement of the Mercedes Benz SLS AMG ED [Electric Drive], which is nothing less than a very powerful and very expensive beast [...]

Fuzzy Math, Washington State Wants to Tax Cyclist Carbon Emissions

Posted by Benji Jerew in Green Policy, Pointless Green, Uncategorized on March 5, 2013

That’s right, Washington State wants to tax cyclists for their use of the roads, citing carbon emissions and the fact they pay no gas tax. For the most part, the gas tax goes toward road maintenance, but since cyclists use no gasoline, then who pays for the infinitesimal wear and tear they inflict on the [...]

Solar Thermal Energy to be 50% Less Expensive by 2020

Posted by Leigh Kim in Solar Power, Uncategorized on February 6, 2013

According to the director at the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), by 2020, solar energy will be 50% cheaper. Due to fossil fuel subsidies and limited hours of solar thermal energy power plants, solar power is still quite expensive. Top researchers at the Australian Solar Thermal [...]

On Stolen Bikes and Gas

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Uncategorized on August 28, 2012

I usually write on the green news that show up everyday, but today I’m gonna do things differently. Today, I’ll think about the importance of having a clean transportation means and how it could affect everybody’s life. Well, someone stole my bike today. Yeah, my good old bike I had purchased six year ago and [...]

MIT Researchers Increase Ultracapacitor Performance by 45 Percent

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage, Uncategorized on October 13, 2011

Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao from the University of Stanford have developed an electrode manufacturing technique that could improve the capacity of ultra-capacitors by 20 to 45 percent and make them compete with much more expensive batteries currently used in electric cars. The two researchers and the team they led used managanese oxide electrodes (MnO), [...]

Wake Forest's Plastic Fiber Solar Cells Doubling Energy Output of Flat Ones

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power, Uncategorized on April 10, 2010

Solar cells get efficient as time goes, but there are methods to improve the performance of current ones, made with older technologies. Wake Forest Center for Nanotechnology has just received a patent for a new solar cell technology that can double the energy production of current silicon flat cells at highly reduced costs.

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Got Better by Using Ionic Salts

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power, Uncategorized on October 14, 2009

A group of researchers from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, in Seville, Spain, led by Juan Antonio Anta, are working on optimizing Grätzel solar cells by incorporating ionic salts, known as green solvents, with a view to preventing evaporation of the liquid compounds and the consequent reduction in efficiency.

New Electronic Circuit Cooling System Offers Brighter Electric Car Perspectives

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles, Hybrid vehicles, Uncategorized on September 30, 2009

Researchers from Purdue University discovered precisely how fluid boils in capilary cooling sytems, and that by designing a system by using those rules they got a much more efficient heat transfer between the object to be cooled and the liquid.

Atlantic City Convention Center Installed 2.4 MW Solar Powered Rooftop

Posted by Cristi in Solar Power, Uncategorized on March 28, 2009

13,400 modules, manufactured by the Chinese company Trina Solar, provide 2,4 MW at peak capacity, equivalent to the needs of 280 American houses. The energy generated will reduce the building’s electricity bills with 25% and in it’s lifetime of 20 years the solar panels will save about $4.4 million.

New Membrane by Chinese Scientist Can Make Fuel Cells Cheaper

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008

Currently, platinum is used as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells, making them so expensive and hence unappetizing to customers. Lin Zhang, a Chinese scientist, has discovered a membrane that could make the usage of platinum history, and make fuel cells cheaper than ever.

Your Home`s Excess Heat Could Get Recovered by New Cheap Machine

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Uncategorized on November 24, 2008

This article doesn’t talk about huge producers of energy, or doesn’t mention the use of any prime matter to create energy, but instead it focuses on recycled one. Ener-G-Rotors, a company based in Schenectady, NY, is developing a heat recycler that can work with lower quantities of heat, under 150°C, unlike those of the competitors, aimed only to the higher-class, industrial energy producing stations.

Biofuels are Bad for Poor Countries – they Cause Starvation on Long Term

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Biodiesel, Uncategorized on June 26, 2008

The aid agency Oxfam said Wednesday that the all-beloved biofuels are to be blamed for 30% of the increase in food prices worldwide, pushing 30 million people around the globe into poverty.