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Everything We do Emits Heat – Bad in the Long Run, or Not?
I don't know what to believe anymore, sometimes. We seem to run of global warming, we reduce pollution and try to "green" ourselves through electric cars, solar cells and wind mills, yet scientists (as if all this global warming mess is all on their football field) say there will still be global warming due to the heat our machines, as a whole, emit in the ecosystem.
Could Extreme Wind Turbine Usage Alter Weather Patterns?
While there's no Hancock to save the world from global warming, I guess we have to do that ourselves. We try and try, struggle with all the issues nature has put in our face, but yet we don't succeed with 100% efficiency, or we don't convert our efforts well enough to capture the forces that move around us freely.
Sharp and Enel to Produce 1 GigaWatt Thin Film Solar Power Yearly
It's good news to hear that green technology is growing rapidly in our times, and that new inventions in solar power are being applied months after they had been on the engineers' desks. This time it's about a new joint venture between the Japanese company Sharp and the largest Italian electricity provider, Enel.
Artificial Photosynthesis Succeeded Using Gold "Leaves"
Kane Jennings and Peter Ciesielski, along with a team of scientists from the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, have been working to create the world's first artificial leaf, that can do what natural leaves do: capture the light. More, their leaves transform that light into electricity. So, the nature's 3.5 billion years work is now to be synthesized in a lab experiment. Here's how they do it.
Sleekest Hydrogen Powered Sportscar: Honda FC Sport
Though some blogs take it as a surprise, it's not something new coming from Honda: their vision of a sportscar powered entirely by a hydrogen fuel cell... not surprisingly, the same that's into their FCX Clarity, released this summer.
VIVACE: Transforming Destructive Water Vibrations Into Electricity
VIVACE (Vortex Induced Vibrations for Aquatic Clean Energy) is a newly invented machine harvesting slow-moving ocean and river currents. A researcher from the University of Michigan has come up with the system that works like a fish, turning potentially destructive vibrations found in fluid flows into electricity.
Your Home`s Excess Heat Could Get Recovered by New Cheap Machine
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.
New Wind Turbine Generator Gets 57% More Power
Wind power is one of the cheapest forms of energy available to us, because it mainly depends on wind's speed, and it works 24/7, with no dependence on the moment of the day. A new company called ExRo Technology, based in Vancouver, BC, wants to commercially develop a new type of generator to be used in wind turbines all over the world. The interesting fact is that this new generator can increase the electricity output by 50%.
Power Air`s Batteries Use Zinc as Fuel: Cheaper Alternative to Li-Ion
A California company, named "Power Air" wants to introduce a fuel cell to the market next year. It has the size of a BlackBerry, and uses zinc as a fuel to charge your gadgets.
Study: Salt Water Can Keep the Injected CO2 Underground
We are now trying to bury the CO2, get rid of it somehow, and if fossil fuels came from down below, we think that by sending CO2 from where it came, we will solve the problem partially. And that may be true, regarding that sometimes the patchy solutions are best. So, let's try to patch our trouble.
