DIY: Home Built Steam Powered iPod Charger
What can you do with a steam powered engine, a LEGO toy kit, some wood sticks and a USB cable?
Pedal-Powered Blender: Saving The World One Carrot at a Time
After so much seriousness, let's try and take a look at something else, a new invention that will surely change the way we live, think, and act during our irresponsible ride to the grocery store.
Tiny Dead Marine Cells Helping Us Create Better Solar Cells
Using microscopic creatures as our friends is not a new idea, not it has been used recently. Nowadays, pushed by our green energy needs, we have to find solutions by using and probably killing some of our little friends to make us energy. This phrase sounded like the madhouse, now let's get to the real subject.
New Method for Splitting Water Passively with Heat and Light
Prof. David Milstein, and his colleagues from the Weizmann Institute, the Organic Chemistry Department, demonstrated a new way of generating hydrogen and oxygen, through a series of steps that involve applying heat, light, and a special catalyst.
Blood-Fed Yeast Batteries Could Greenly Power Pacemakers
As if it wasn't enough for MIT's virus batteries, scientists from the University of British Columbia have now devised a fuel cell prototype able to feed itself from the sugar in the blood stream.The tricky part of the invention is that the fuel cell is made of nothing else but a type of bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, that lives in yeast.
Gas Hydrates ("Burning Ice") Offer Clean Heating Solution
There is enough material underground to heat 100 million homes for a decade. With this amazing source of energy (the gas hydrates) researchers could develop systems that can provide green and cheap energy for all.
Green Device Detects When Your TV is on Standby and Shuts It
This is for those who often leave their TV sets and other electronics on standby, instead of shutting them down or putting them hibernate. I shamefully count myself among these guys from time to time, but I'm trying to recover.
75% Efficient Solar Powered Air Conditioning System
Le Lievre, co-founder and former CEO of Ausra, now founder of Chromasun, is planning to launch a very efficient solar powered air conditioning system in the first quarter of 2010.
Save 40% of Water Heating Costs with EcoDrain
The idea behind this energy gadget is simple: every time you take a shower, or wash your hands and, generally, use hot water, you waste a lot of energy down the drain in the form of hot water. That energy is really a big waste, because a lot of energy is put into heating that water.
HP Reduces Discarded Batteries by Making Them Last Much Longer
HP has announced a new range of notebook batteries developed by Boston Power, which will be available for 18 existing notebook models developed by the company representing approximately 70 percent of HP's consumer notebook PC portfolio and will be available with a 3-year warranty.
