inventor Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:17:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Justin Capra, Inventor of 784 MPG Car, Dies at 81 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/justin-capra-dies-81-20150120/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/justin-capra-dies-81-20150120/#respond Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:15:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=51389 Justin Capra, the original inventor of the jetpack and the 784 mpg car died yesterday at the age of 81. We wrote a couple of articles on Justin Capra – most of his inventions have been focused on transportation. He usually said modern transportation has failed to reach its purpose: “The automobile is a crime. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/justin-capra-dies-81-20150120/feed/ 0 51389 New Revolutionary Recipe For Making Biodiesel In Under 6 Seconds! https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-revolutionary-recipe-for-making-biodiesel-in-under-6-seconds-20080331/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-revolutionary-recipe-for-making-biodiesel-in-under-6-seconds-20080331/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:10:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=259 Everybody is talking today about a young scientist, Brian Krohn (21), in fact a senior at Augsburg College. He invented a new revolutionary  way of making biodiesel out of waste oils, sparing the crops for feeding the poor (?). His method implies the mixing of alcohol and coconut oil, soybean oil, and even algae. All […]

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