The beef against residential solar panels for so many years is that they have been too expensive to install upon one’s home. But, at least in California the price of residential solar panels will be coming down considerably.
A bill passed by state Assemblyman Mark Leno (no relation to Jay Leno) has just passed 76-0 and [...]

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On Leap Year Day this year (February 29) I had talked about a new solar iPhone charger that was on the market from Freeloader. Now, Apple has taken a leap of its own by filing for a patent for a solar iPhone 2.0.
Of course photovoltaic cells on small portable devices have been around for a [...]

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The hydrogen gas saver is a device that electrolyzes water and injects the resulting H2 (hydrogen) and O (oxygen) into the vehicle’s intake. This results in increased gas mileage, increased torque, decreased emissions and a cleaner burn inside the engine reducing deposits and general wear.
I’ve talked about a specific hydrogen gas saver here and there [...]

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Gasoline-powered plug-in hybrids are so yesterday’s news and hydrogen plug-in hybrids are most probably the future. But, in the here and now, Odyne Corporation has unveiled the first compressed natural gas (CNG) plug-in hybrid refuse vehicle in the world.
The city of Fresno, California held a press conference yesterday announcing that the new Odyne CNG PHEV [...]

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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new methanol fuel cell that is 50-percent more efficient that other comparable FC’s. This direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), according to MIT Professor Paula Hammond is cost-effective, highly tunable and has more output than a comparable material called Nafion.
In fact, Hammond says the new [...]

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