Dubbed DA36 E-Star, the two-seater airplane made its maiden flight on June 8 at the Wiener Neustadt airfield in Vienna, Austria. As company officials said, the E-Star could reduce fuel consumption and emissions by 25%, compared to an equivalent aircraft from its class.
Following up with a piece of news we wrote about on December 1st, last year, TechOn reports that Toshiyuki Ueno from Kanazawa University has developed a magnetostriction-based energy harvesting device that can produce up to 2 watts of electricity from harvesting vibrations. To be noted that this isn't piezoelectricity, which we've gotten used to lately.
Tata Steel, India's leading supplier of stainless steel, in partnership with the Australian solar technology company Dyesol, has recently developed the world's largest girder coated with solar panels.
Nokia is seemingly testing a solar powered phone these days in different conditions from different parts of the globe. They put four of their C1-02 devices, each having an attached solar panel and sent them to Kenya, the Arctic Circle, Sweden and to a boat on the Baltic Sea.
Dutch airline KLM has recently revealed its plans regarding the use of recycled cooking oil as a biofuel source to power flights to and from France. The company's goal is to reduce the carbon emissions.
Sempra Energy is the company that won a $359 million conditional loan guarantee last week from the Department of Energy regarding the construction of a 700MW solar power plant in the Mesquite desert in Arizona.
Honda has recently released the two new versions to its existing Honda Fit car series on the Japan auto-market, namely the Fit Shuttle and Fit Shuttle Hybrid.
Along history, some said making wind turbines, transporting them to the site, installing and performing regular maintenance emits lots of carbon dioxide and uses lots of raw materials. A team of students from Cape May Technical High School in New Jersey has proved the contrary.
I didn't know the Guiness Book awards solar cell efficiencies lately. This story I read on Cleantechnica tells how SunPower, "the most popular solar panels company in California," got into the Guinness Book for providing people with "the most efficient commercially available photovoltaic modules on the market."
Toyota has been keeping people waiting for their new plug-in Prius for a long time now. Consumesearch drove a prototype of the Prius V set to enter the market in 2012 and made a list of the enhancements it will feature compared to a present-day non-plug-in Prius.
