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Makes Its Own Hydrogen Fuel – Mercedes-Benz Vision G-Code Concept

Benji Jerew — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:35:26 +0000

Unveiled at the opening of the Beijing Product Engineering Centre, the Mercedes-Benz Vision G-Code Concept looks like most any futuristic vehicle, except that, even paint-deep, this isn’t any ordinary hydrogen fuel vehicle. You’ll note, for starters, that it would be entirely incorrect to call the Mercedes-Benz Vision G-Code a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Like hydrogen […]

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Sun-Believable: Solar Cell Paint Developed by University of Notre Dame Researchers

Mike Sandru — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:34:59 +0000

You think you’ve seen it all, but you haven’t – at least regarding solar energy production! Nowadays, you can produce your own heat by just painting your house with the right kind of paint! An innovative paint of this kind would do a lot more than just free up space on your roof by displacing […]

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Shimizu's Master Plan For a 11,000 Km Long, 400 Km-Wide Lunar Solar Belt

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:36:38 +0000

A Japanese company, Shimizu, dreams of turning the Moon's ecuator into an 11,000 kilometers long solar collector, and bring that energy "down" to Earth via a 20-km wide dishes, through microwaves and lasers. The belt would have widths ranging from a few to 400 km. Now, how brilliant is that?

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Solar Paint soon to be Marketed as The Cheapest Source of Energy

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:28:50 +0000

Some recent partnership between UK university researchers and Corus Colours, also a UK-based firm, brought to the surface a promise of future commercialization of cheap dye-based solar panels.

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Paint Your House With Solar Powered Paint!

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:37:09 +0000

Two UK researchers, David Worsley and Maarten Wijdekop have made up a paint that could produce electricity by gathering the energy from the Sun. A consortium led by Swansea University in the UK hopes to use that process to cover steel sheets with a photovoltaic paint at up to 40 square metres per minute.The paint […]

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