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Cooperation in the Auto Industry: GM & Toyota, VW & BYD
The economical crisis is the best moment for auto industry's ruling players to fuse their forces and/or technologies, for increasing profit on everyone's side.
HCCI Engine: No-Spark Gasoline Engine as Efficient as Diesel
If you ever had a diesel car, you know that it's more fuel efficient than the gasoline counterpart. That's because diesel engines use compression to ignite the fuel, and gasoline engines use a spark to do that. Practically, diesel engines could work without any electricity - at all.
Obama's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Budget Cut Doesn't Stop Researchers
Although Obama's recent budgeting won't be allowing more than 40% of what's been allowed until May 9 for fuel cell research, others don't find his decision to quit financing this technology as easy as he or his administration does. Furthermore, there are people and institutions actively searching for other investment resources to pursue the fuel cell business and dream.
Helmholtz Principle-Based Innovation Reduces Aircraft Consumption by 20%
Scientists discovered a new method to reduce an airliner's consumption and fuel costs by redirecting the air to waggle sideways around the wings. They are doing this with tiny air powered jets, making the air flow back and forth over the wing.
SolarWindow Empowers Your Windows to Produce Electricity
New Energy Technologies Inc developed an organic solar array that is both transparent and produces electricity. They made use of conductive polymers, a thousand times thinner than human hair, assembled them together, and - voilà ! Here's a working solar cell less then 1/4 the size of a grain of rice, producing electricity just like its big silicon brother, only cheaper.
Wind-It: Electrical Towers Transformed into Wind Turbines
This project aims to adapt the current infrastructure of electrical high voltage towers into electricity generating towers. Because they are so tall and well grounded, electrical towers are best for supporting wind turbines (of course, adapted to the towers' shape).
WindCube: 60kW Small, Stackable Wind Turbines
The device below is known as WindCube, and is developed by Green Energy Technologies. It incorporates a fan and a wind concentrator system, which directs the wind at a higher speed though the fan, producing eight times more electricity than if it wasn't used.
Innovative Lithium-Air Batteries (STAIR) Improve Lifetime Ten Fold
Scientists from the University of St. Andrews, partnering with Strathclyde and Newcastle have discovered a method of making clean batteries that also have a chemical reaction, but do not carry a chemical component used in batteries today. Instead, they use a reaction with the oxygen drawn from the air to generate electricity.
Space-Based Solar Power Project Not so Cool
In our thirst for energy we gladly accept anything not done before, or old methods improved to work with new technologies. Still, we have to take into account all the possibilities these new ways of generating energy open for us, or close for other species or for our entire planet's ecosystem.
Ultra-Dense Deuterium Could Make Nuclear Fusion Happen
...what if I told you scientists are about to create a material denser than the Sun's core? The material is called "ultra-dense deuterium", and a cube with 10 cm sides made of it would weigh no less than one hundred and thirty (130) tons.
