I'll start this with a question: how many times have you discarded a laptop battery as being dead? Me, personally, I haven't trashed any of them, but rather kept the "bad" ones in storage for as long as I can...
New record in solar energy conversion was set by a team of Australian researchers. The guys were able to achieve the incredible boost by using commercially available solar cells, only in a different way.
The announcement of the breakthrough came...
Unlike the Toyota Mirai FCV, which participated in the Shinshiro Rally as the Zero Car, an EV will actually race in the Dakar Rally. Also, unlike the Shinhiro Rally, the Dakar Rally isn't a rally but rather an endurance...
As it is, the LaFerrari was already a beast of a car at 963 horsepower. But the folks at Ferrari had other ideas, they put it into the XX Program and came up with this beast of a brother,...
Rechargeable battery technology is everywhere around us, from smartphones to smart buildings, and everyone is constantly on the watch for “the next big thing,” to which Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says, “send me a sample.”
We really should have...
Times, “they are a-changin’ but, at least according to some independent testing agencies, environmental regulations, such as those that govern transportation fuel economy and carbon dioxide emissions, aren’t keeping up with them.
Fuel economy measurements are a big part of...
DIY projects are great. Regardless of how useful and innovative the final creation is, once you see it all working, it gives this incredible sense of achievement. Now, imagine how great it would be to combine this with the approaching Christmas...
I remember reading about how superconductors were to revolutionize transportation, computing, telecommunications, energy and industry. I also remember with amazement the time I made a superconductor float on a magnet in a pool of liquid nitrogen.
That was cool, both...
Norway is about to revolutionize their green transport system. The world's first ever bike escalator called CycloCable, comes to the rescue and helps thousands of cyclists go up that 150m long hill, without having to struggle.
Cycling is great for...
A small French firm has developed a fully functioning prototype of an urban wind tree turbine. Their invention resembles natural vegetation, captures low speed urban winds, generates great amounts of electricity, and it works entirely noise-free.
Some people claim that wind...
