500hp Dodge Viper vs Laptop Battery-Powered "Tzero"
See who wins this astonishing race between a 500hp racing car and an electric car powered only by 7000 laptop batteries.
London's Eco Nightclub to Open Today
You eat. You dance. You generate power. All the shaking-for-nothing floors of London's nightclubs are one step behind the city's most eco-friendly nightclub. San Francisco has got one, and so does Rotterdam. Basically, the whole idea behind this concept is to generate electricity from the shaking dance floor, electricity which would largely power the dancers' music and lights. It's like "pedal for electricity", but more fun.
Shell Oil Company to Open 1 GigaWatt Solar Power Plant
Showa Shell Sekiyu, a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary, the one of Japan largest oil company will invest 100 billion yen($938 mil) in a giant solar panel powered plant, AFP says.
Message for America: Have a Green Independence Day!
Over the years, America's economical supremacy has led the world's trends from zero to where we are now. Today, America celebrates the Independence Day. Independence itself is the greatest concept of them all, it's the feeling of freedom and the fiesta of life.
New Diesel DeNOx Catalyst to Reduce Emissions by 95%
A new catalyst has been developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. It can reduce the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions diesel engines from 90%-95%. Integrated Fuel Technologies, Inc. (IFT), a Washington State start-up company with offices in Spokane and Kirkland, has been licensed to produce it.
Germany Storing CO2 Underground
Germany has an ongoing plan to store their CO2 emissions underground. They used a special drill during tests earlier this year for the carbon capture project in Ketzin. The GFZ geoscience institute says that Germany will inaugurate Europe's first underground carbon dioxide storage site.
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.
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.
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.
Mazda Makes Eco-Friendly Plastics from Biomass
Mazda Motor Corporation and Hiroshima University are researching together to develop a brand new "green" plastic material from cellulosic biomass. They want to use it in vehicles by 2013.
