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Nanotube Solar Cells Improve Efficiency 10 Times
Nanotechnology seems to help a lot in solar cells improvement. Recent research in solar cell technology shows that a film of carbon nanotubes could replace two of the layers normally used in a solar cell, with improved performance and reduced costs.
Nanosolar’s Flexible Solar Panels – a GigaWatt Promise Kept
Remember Nanosolar? I wrote on article on them a few months ago, telling that they invented a light sensitive thin layer, that could be imprinted on various flexible surfaces and then used as solar batteries. They kept their word to it.
Home Made Refueling Station for Honda FCX Clarity
It is essentially an electric car. Everyone's talking about their fears that they don't have hydrogen refueling stations around, forgetting that we have water all around us.
American Electric Car Conversions Still Expensive
Hybrid Technologies, a company whose headquarters is in Las Vegas, has already begun to think about the next best business after the making of hybrid cars: converting old gasoline cars to electric ones!
Algenol Mexico Factory to Produce Ethanol from Algae by 2009
Algenol CEO Paul Woods said Thursday that the ethanol produced at the farm will cost $1 less than today's gasoline, that is about $3/gallon.
Toyota Prius Batteries: Not Enough of Them!
Toyota has announced they just don't have the necessary capacity to produce the batteries they're required to put in the already ordered Priuses.
GM Hy-Wire Fuel Cell Vehicle Tested by Top Gear
...and here's the HyWire technology, the one the world has been talking about in the last few months. It's a concept made by General Motors, there is only one example of it made, and it runs on fuel cell power. I mean... hydrogen power.
Superconductor Powered Toyota Shows Increased Power
Sumitomo has shown a prototype of a car (a Toyota - shown in picture) that uses special type of engine, a liquid-nitrogen cooled one. The use of liquid nitrogen makes usual copper conductors have superconducting properties.
Japanese Car Runs Exclusively on Water!
The Japanese company Genepax has unveiled a car that runs exclusively on water. They even have a working prototype that was showed off in front of the press. They claim that using only one liter of water it can run with 80km/h.
Aerodynamic Trucks Fight Diesel Rising Prices
While diesel is approaching $5 a gallon, researchers become more interested in finding a way to reduce fuel consumption on the heavy trucks at highway speeds. Now they have come up with an interesting idea: while there's little point in firstly modifying the engines to consume less, and spending a lot of money on upgrading them, the focus went on making the existing heavy weight trucks more aerodynamic.
