With skyrocketing prices as the fuel pumps, gas savers are getting red hot. It seems like every time now days that you drive by the gasoline station, the prices have jumped again. That is why many motorists are looking towards gas savers to help with their wallets along with the positive environmental impact of using • Read More »
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Datexx SuperBattery Portable Hand Crank Charger
June 6, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: News.Have you gotten a little cranky because you’re unable to use your portable solar charger at night to recharge your cell phone, GPS or other portable device? Are you even more cranky since you’re miles from nowhere and need just five minutes of juice to do what you need to do. Well, instead of getting • Read More »
Ronn Motors Scorpion Exotic Car Saves Gas Using Hydrogen
June 4, 2008 | By Kevin | 3 Comments | Filed in: Free Energy.Ronn Motors of Austin, Texas yesterday unveiled their Scorpion exotic car, which can flat out run. Not only that, it exceeds current and future U. S. CAFÉ standard for automobile gas mileage. With zero to 60 mph acceleration in under 4 seconds, the Ronn Scorpion fits well in the supercar class. But, it’s also a • Read More »
Lake’s Geothermal Energy to Heat and Cool Hospital in Illinois
June 2, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Geothermal Energy.In Elgin, Illinois, Sherman Health is building a new hospital that will be heated and cooled by a 15-acre lake. By using the 17-foot deep artificial lake’s natural geothermal properties the hospital will be kept at an even temperature all year long, saving the facility a cool $1 million in utility bills. When the new • Read More »
Residential Solar Panels to Get Cheaper in California
May 30, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Solar Energy.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 • Read More »
Solar iPhone a Patented Possibility
May 28, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Solar Energy.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 • Read More »
Hydrogen Gas Saver
May 23, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Gas Savers.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 • Read More »
Odyne CNG Plug-In Hybrid Hits Fresno
May 21, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Plug-In Hybrids.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 • Read More »
MIT Fuel Cell 50 Percent More Efficient
May 19, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells.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 • Read More »
Solar Breakthroughs by IBM and Hoex
May 16, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Solar Energy.This week a couple of important solar breakthroughs have surfaced in the news. Both IBM and Physicist Bram Hoex (and colleagues) have demonstrated two different solar breakthroughs worth noting. The IBM solar breakthrough involves using a thin liquid metal layer of gallium and indium that is cooled by a plate of copper. By use of • Read More »