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USB Solar-Powered Battery Pack Unveiled at CeBIT
The Company called FSP came to CeBIT 2009 with USB green battery charger which uses solar panels.
SmarterShade Reduces 25% of Energy for Room Cooling
SmarterShade is a solar-powered smart windows that helps cooling down your home temperature in hot summer days.
Using Zinc-Air Batteries to Charge Your Mobile Phone
Based on Zinc-Air battery technology, a Japanese company called KFE, developed a power source for a portable phone charger.
TH!NK Electric City Vehicle Will Move Production to U.S.
Norwegian EV maker TH!NK has come up with a new plan to manufacture their plastic-body city cars in U.S.
BMW Saves Fuel With Pipe-Mounted Radioactive Device
In a world that tries to save more and more of its resources, BMW wants to make use of the car's heat to recover some of the energy lost by thermal means. It's just that they understood this time by being green means putting a radioactive thermoelectric generator in the car's tailpipe.
Namir: The World's Fastest Hybrid Car
A few days ago, the Geneva Motor Show was the event where we could see the hybrid that can travel 187 mph (almost 301 km/hour), or 2,000 km without recharging or refilling.
Liquid Battery from Molten Salts Invented at MIT
As always, MIT is coming with lots of interesting ideas that often represent really viable ways of improving our energy sources. This time, MIT has come up with a special type of battery never seen before.
Nissan Quits Hybrid & Hydrogen Cars: Pursues Battery Powered
Though some say electric cars will keep away from our daily usage for the next couple of decades, Nissan people have decided they will not pursue the same trend with the majority, and will switch from hydrogen or hybrid cars to purely electric ones (battery powered).
Breakthrough Carbon Capture Using Ionic Liquids
Founded by scientists from the University of Colorado, ION Engineering has brought in sight a new technology that uses ionic liquids - nonvolatile molten salts - to capture carbon emissions.
$300 Solarstar Uses the Sun's Heat to Cool Your Home
For all those of you living in a house, with roof and fence, the problem of cooling your residence in the summer is pretty pressing. SolarStar has thought at this niche and built a standalone cooling system, based on the Universe-aged principle of cooling by evaporation of water, getting the hot air out, and putting the colder one in.
