How green do eco celebrities have to be? There is an expectation in this culture that if celebrities talk the talk, then they must walk the walk and do so to the Nth degree. In fact, some people hold extreme viewpoints that eco celebrities all need to be clones of Ed Begley, Jr. who used • Read More »
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MIT City Car
November 14, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Electric Cars.It folds. It stacks. It slices & dices and makes Julian fries. It’s the MIT City Car. Okay, maybe it doesn’t slice and dice, but it does fold and stack and it’s the latest green car technology from a university known for their tech expertise. The MIT City Car is an electric vehicle prototype being • Read More »
Helix Wind Energy for Home Use
November 13, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Wind Energy.Helix Wind out of San Diego, California has come up with an atypical wind turbine design for home use. While most wind turbines still use the tried and true rotor or propeller style to catch the breeze, the Helix Wind turbines use something more akin to artwork. The video shows a small demonstration model, but • Read More »
Wind Energy Growth Reports Not a Lot of Hot Air
November 12, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Wind Energy.People in the industry know that wind energy is a hot growth sector right now. Validation of this belief comes from AWEA (American Wind Energy Association) who says that in the U. S., a million new homes will be powered by wind energy in 2007. This more than doubles their prediction from last year. And, • Read More »
Nissan Expands Wind Farm
November 11, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Wind Energy.Nissan usually gets overlooked as one of the automakers actively seeking solutions to clean up the environment. GM, DaimlerChrysler and BMW are heavily invested in hydrogen cars. A bunch of smaller automakers like Tesla, Phoenix Motors and Zap are heavily invested in electric cars. Nissan has made major investments in both of these areas as • Read More »
Magnetic Wind Turbine Blows Away Competition
November 10, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Wind Energy.MagLev Wind Turbine Technologies is trying to blow away their competition, so much so that they’ve even hired a guy named Larry Blow to join as the Chief Consulting Engineer (They have not released whether or not brother Joe was also courted as well). MagLev Technologies made a splash in energy technology in July 2006, • Read More »
Water Power is the Wave of the Future
November 9, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Wave Power.Man has been using a small percentage of the Earth’s water power for a number of years as many large hydroelectric dams have been constructed. But, this renewable energy resource is only a small fraction of the water power this planet has to offer. More recently, researchers have been exploring tidal energy, ocean waves and • Read More »
Flybo XFD-6000ZK Electric Car From China
November 8, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Electric Cars.In Saginaw, Michigan at Great Lakes Auto Sales is the only Flybo Electric Car dealership in the states. The Flybo XFD-6000ZK is a Chinese-made Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) that can go 45 mph (with the 25 mph limiter removed) and gets 70 to 150 miles per charge, depending upon use. The Chinese import is being • Read More »
E-One Hybrid
November 7, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Hybrid Vehicles.The mobile E-ONE Hybrid Electric Command Center changes the face of fighting fires, rescues and other emergency response duties by going green. The E-One Hybrid is currently the first and only hybrid electric command center in the nation. Based in Ocala, Florida, E-One is known as an industry leader in manufacturing fire rescue vehicles, having • Read More »
Biodiesel Making a Comeback
November 6, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: biodiesel.Biodiesel is making a comeback as many people have a renewed interest in cleaning up the environment and ending our dependence upon foreign fossil fuels. But, while Willie Nelson may be going broke pedaling his BioWillie like a traveling medicine man in the Old West, other vendors are starting to prosper. In fact, while BioWillie • Read More »