Salt Water Powered Car Gets European Approval. A car which uses an electrolyte flow cell power system is now certified for use on European roads. The car is called the Quant e-Sportlimousine, which made its debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. Not only can this car run on salt water, but it is claimed that the car has peak power of 920 horsepower (680 kW), 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 217.5 mph (350 km/h). “We are delighted as pioneers to be able to present an automobile driven by flow cell technology on public roads, and one which achieves not only fantastic performance values but also zero emissions, a projected top speed of over 350 km/h (217.5 mph), acceleration from 0-100 in 2.8 seconds, a torque of four times 2,900 Nm (2,139 lb-ft) and a range of more than 600 km (373 mi)” said Nunzio La Vecchia, the visionary behind the development of the sports car.
“We’ve got major plans, and not just within the automobile industry,” says NanoFlowcell AG Chairman of the Board Prof. The First Man-Made Biological Leaf Turns Light and Water Into Oxygen. Coffee Car :: The Car. Eco-living! Announces 175-megawatt wind farm deal, broadens renewable energy commitment | The Fire Hose. Microsoft will purchase 175 megawatts of wind energy from the Pilot Hill Wind Project in Illinois, about 60 miles south of Chicago, as part of a 20-year agreement announced Tuesday.
It’s the second such deal in as many years and indicative of Microsoft’s growing commitment to renewable energy and sustainability. When it comes online next year, Pilot Hill will be Microsoft’s largest wind project and one of the biggest corporate wind purchases from a single facility, generating more than enough energy to power Microsoft’s Chicago datacenter. The total output of the project is equivalent to the electricity consumption of 70,000 homes in Illinois. Microsoft purchased 110 megawatts of energy from the Keechi Wind Farm in Texas in 2013.
The deal with owner and operator EDF Renewable Energy follows a similar agreement in Texas in 2013 where Microsoft purchased 110 megawatts of wind energy from the Keechi Wind Farm. Another is Mt. Brian Janous, Microsoft’s director of energy strategy. Geeks living off the grid are hard on batteries. New silent wind turbine could generate half of a homes electric needs, says company The Archimedes. Megan Treacy of Treehugger reports Silent rooftop wind turbines could generate half of a household's energy needs A Dutch company cased The Archimedes has developed a small, highly efficient, and silent rooftop wind energy generator called the Liam1, which it claims could generate half the power a typical house would need, and which they say would be ideal for combining with solar rooftop PV panels. The company states that the Liam F1 turbine could generate 1,500 kWh of energy at wind speeds of 5m/s, enough to cover half of an average household's energy use. ...
When used in combination with rooftop solar panels, a house could run off grid. "When there is wind you use the energy produced by the wind turbine; when the sun is shining you use the solar cells to produce the energy," The Archimedes CEO Richard Ruijtenbeek said.The Liam's blades are shaped like a Nautilus shell. Here is a link to the embedded video below that the company offers to explain the history of the Liam1 turbine. A Japanese startup unveils a long-lasting and safer battery made from carbon. A battery that lasts longer, is safer, charges faster and is less expensive than a standard lithium ion battery: That’s the powerful idea behind a new type of battery under development by a young Japanese startup called Power Japan Plus, or PJP, which came out of stealth on Tuesday. The year-old company uses carbon for both the anode and the cathode portion of the battery and hopes to start producing it later this year.
A battery is made up of an anode on one side and a cathode on the other, with an electrolyte in between. In a lithium ion battery, lithium ions travel from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte, creating a chemical reaction that allows electrons to be harvested along the way. While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars, they have some shortfalls. An all-carbon battery A carbon battery also doesn’t degrade as quickly as a lithium ion battery over time. Early stage. Hydrogen House Project - Hydrogen House Project: Home.
Sandia National Laboratories : Licensing/Technology Transfer The Sandia Cooler. Sandia researchers have developed a radically new architecture for air-cooled heat exchangers. In conventional “fan-plus-finned-heat-sink” air-cooled heat exchangers, the primary physical limitation to performance (i.e. achieving low thermal resistance) is the boundary layer of motionless air that adheres to and envelops all surfaces of the heat exchanger. Within this boundary layer region of “dead air”, diffusive transport is the dominant mechanism for heat transfer. The resulting thermal bottleneck largely determines the thermal resistance of the heat exchanger. Another longstanding problem is inevitable fouling of the heat exchanger surface over time by particulate matter and other airborne contaminants.
Heat sink fouling is especially important in applications where little or no preventative maintenance is typically practiced. The third major obstacle concerns inadequate airflow to heat exchanger resulting from restrictions on fan noise. Description Jeffrey P. Benefits Several U.S. Pouring Saltwater Over Graphene Generates Electricity. Scale Model WWII Craft Takes Flight With Fuel From the Sea Concept. Navy researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, demonstrate proof-of-concept of novel NRL technologies developed for the recovery of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) from seawater and conversion to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Flying a radio-controlled replica of the historic WWII P-51 Mustang red-tail aircraft—of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen—NRL researchers (l to r) Dr.
Jeffrey Baldwin, Dr. Dennis Hardy, Dr. Heather Willauer, and Dr. David Drab (crouched), successfully demonstrate a novel liquid hydrocarbon fuel to power the aircraft's unmodified two-stroke internal combustion engine. The test provides proof-of-concept for an NRL developed process to extract carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce hydrogen gas (H2) from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO2 and H2 into fuel by a gas-to-liquids process.
E-CEM Carbon Capture Skid. About the U.S. The U.S. Forget solar panels, this house runs on algae. Students at the University of Cambridge have been awarded first prize in the 3rd CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environments for their AlgaeHouse concept, a design for an energy and carbon-neutral house powered entirely by algae. Dispel any thoughts of a slimy, moist underground cave or greenhouse: the team's designs are stylish, neat and modern. The house features a sweeping, angled window which in addition to looking rather impressive, houses a number of tubes containing algae which have been genetically engineered for maximum photosynthetic efficiency: when deprived of sulphur, algae will produce hydrogen, which can be fed into a fuel cell for conversion into electricity. The key to optimising production of hydrogen in algae is maintaining a stable temperature, which the team's architectural design cleverly achieves using a "moat" to reflect different degrees of light towards the algae-infused window according to the time of year.
SheerWind's INVELOX Wind Turbine Can Generate 600% More Energy Than Conventional Turbines. US-based wind energy company SheerWind just unveiled the INVELOX – a tunnel-based wind turbine that can produce up to 600% more power than traditional wind turbines. The company states that after extensive field-testing, their new INVELOX turbine “significantly outperforms the traditional turbine” and could reduce installation capital costs to less than $750 per KW. The INVELOX energy system works by capturing ground-level breezes and funneling them through a tapering passageway that naturally accelerates wind flow. Unlike other turbines, it also minimizes environmental and animal impact, and it requires no government subsidies to be profitable. All of this makes INVELOX a potentially game-changing renewable energy solution that could be easily integrated within commercial renewable energy operations.
SheerWind claims that the INVELOX turbine can operate at wind speeds as low as 1 mile per hour, and it has generated a record high energy production capacity of 72% . + SheerWind Via Phys.org. Special report: Apple’s ground-breaking bet on its clean energy infrastructure, with exclusive photos. Last week a utility in North Carolina announced something seemingly mundane on the surface, but it was a transcendent moment for those that have been following the clean energy sector. Duke Energy, which generates the bulk of its energy in the state from dirty and aging coal and nuclear plants, officially asked the state’s regulators if it could sell clean power (from new sources like solar and wind farms) to large energy customers that were willing to buy it — and yes, shockingly enough, thanks to restrictive regulations and an electricity industry that moves at a glacial pace, this previously wasn’t allowed. For years Duke Energy largely ignored clean energy in North Carolina (with a few exceptions), mostly with the explanation that customers wouldn’t pay a premium for it.
Apple’s solar farm next to its data center in Maiden, North Carolina Apple has long been reticent about speaking to the media about its operations, green or otherwise. Apple as a power pioneer The solar farms. Major funds pull out of fossil fuels | Trillion Fund. Nearly $2 billion dollars has been pulled out of fossil fuel shares as last week, 17 of the world’s largest funds said that they would reinvest their money in clean energy. It is a turning point for the divestment movement which aims to divert finances away from fossil fuels to avoid the catastrophic economic consequences of the Carbon Bubble. The funds’ decision to collectively take a big step away from fossil fuels has been interpreted as a sign that the divestment movement is no longer limited to pension and health investors. On the contrary, it is beginning to move into the mainstream and will bring awareness to the public, putting pressure on larger funds and corporations with large stakes in the fossil fuel industry.
Among the seventeen philanthropic funds to commit to the divestment are the Park Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, two of the world’s largest foundations with individual assets of more than $300 million. Technology uses micro-windmills to recharge cell phones. A UT Arlington research associate and electrical engineering professor have designed a micro-windmill that generates wind energy and may become an innovative solution to cell phone batteries constantly in need of recharging and home energy generation where large windmills are not preferred. Smitha Rao and J. -C. Chiao designed and built the device that is about 1.8 mm at its widest point. A single grain of rice could hold about 10 of these tiny windmills. Hundreds of the windmills could be embedded in a sleeve for a cell phone. Wind, created by waving the cell phone in air or holding it up to an open window on a windy day, would generate the electricity that could be collected by the cell phone's battery.
Rao's works in micro-robotic devices initially heightened a Taiwanese company's interest in having Rao and Chiao brainstorm over novel device designs and applications for the company's unique fabrication techniques, which are known in the semiconductor industry for their reliability. 13 Electric Vehicles Coming To Market In 2014.
Cars Published on January 3rd, 2014 | by Zachary Shahan January 3rd, 2014 by Zachary Shahan Originally published on EV Obsession. Unfortunately, playing catch-up over the holidays kicked an article idea out of my head. Fortunately, an article on GM-Volt kicked it back in. Jeff Cobb of GM-Volt went ahead and published “9 new plug-in cars to look forward to in 2014″ last week. [Three notes: 1) the list doesn’t include updates of models already for sale, such as the Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt, etc.; 2) links on the subheadings are links to our archives of these vehicles, while links on the names in the descriptions are to the manufacturers’ pages for the vehicles; 3) prices are before any tax credits or rebates.]
Also see: 11 Electric Cars That Cost Less Than The Average New Car In The US Electric Cars For Sale In US In 2014 1. BMW i3 and me at Arc de Triompf in Barcelona, Spain. Black & silver BMW i3 at EVS27 in Barcelona, Spain. I’ve already expressed my love for the BMW i3 (at length). 2. 3. 4. 5. Wind turbines on farms 'can help UK meet food and energy needs' 10 December 2013Last updated at 21:55 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News Farm-scale wind power does not affect food productivity levels, say campaigners Allowing farmers to use renewable energy technology on their land will help the nation meet its future food and energy needs, experts suggest. By generating on-farm electricity, farmers would be able to cut their costs of producing food and more likely to remain in business, they added. Analysis suggested farmers could earn up to £50,000 a year from generating electricity from wind energy.
Agricultural land accounts for almost 75% of the UK's land cover. "There are about 300,000 farms in the UK so if you are going to have renewable energy generation at any level of scale, farmers have the land and the capacity to install those renewable energy schemes," explained Nicky Conway, principal sustainability adviser for Forum for the Future and one of the speakers at the Great British Wind Meal event. Beyond the niche “Start Quote.
If this startup succeeds, you'll only need to charge your phone once a week (exclusive) | VentureBeat | Gadgets | by christinafarr. For most of us, charging a device every six to eight hours (and sometimes even more often) can be a burden. But a new, flat fuel-cell battery developed by a startup called Ardica could change all of that. Researchers in Los Angeles will soon launch a battery that attaches to any device, including iPhones, Fitbits, and Kindle readers, and provides seven days of run time on a single charge. If they can make this technology work — and sell it — you may never have to scramble for a public wall socket to charge your phone again. Ardica has intentionally stayed under the radar so that it can build the technology before potential competitors get wind of it. Ardica is onto a huge opportunity if (and that’s a big if) it can execute on its ambitious goals and manufacture enough of the batteries to meet potential demand.
From the military to the average Joe The military is notoriously secretive about its technology, so Ardica has kept much of its research private. Early research and results. Eco Friendly Homes Amongst the Trees. The project, dubbed Primeval Symbiosis (Single Pole House), was designed as part of the d3 Natural Systems 2013 international architectural design competition, which asked designers to create innovative sustainable proposals that study intrinsic environmental geometries, behaviours, and flows. The home’s designer was inspired after studying the functionality and structure of different types of trees. “For most animals, trees are the best natural shelters against predators, moisture and weather.
Studying its nature allowed me to come up with ideas and solutions to create a completely self-sufficient construction,” he said. The house can adapt to almost any existing landscape without leaving any footprint. The name Primeval Symbiosis refers to the connection between the house and its natural environment. At present, traditional housing developments and urban sprawl necessitate massive deforestation around cities and urban areas. 3D model. Cross Sections. Published on 25 November 2013. Google Prods a Coal-Fired Utility Into Making Money on Green Power. Cold Fusion. Martin Fleishcmann Memorial Project. Is Cold Fusion Finally Being Accepted By Scientists? | Psylords.info. Cars. Peugeot pitches all-electric utility van, the Partner Electrique. Meet the tiny little pod car that runs on air. Ecomove - Danish Eco car.
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Peter Thiel funds tornado power: seriously — Cleantech News and Analysis. Updated: UK breaks 4GW wind energy barrier - 14 Sep 2012. Report on Vulnerability of Electric Power Grid Finally Released after 5 Years. Home - V-Tex Technology. Spinning into control. Vortex Induced Vibrations: Ocean Currents Could Power The Entire Planet. Fortum, DCNS, AW-Energy and Bretagne Region cooperate on wave power demonstration project in France | AW Energy. Bibliographic data. America is being left behind by energy innovators. Nitrogen cycle: Difference Engine: End of the electric car? Rife Water Ram Pumps. Ikea assembles renewable energy portfolio. Why the Renewable Energy Industry Needs Green Banks. A350 marks new phase in aero-engines. Science and technology: Sunny uplands. Open-air plasma device could revolutionize energy generation, US Navy’s weaponry.
Power Spintronics: Producing AC Voltages By Manipulating Magnetic Fields. US Army colonel: world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment. Alternative Energy research by Zero Fossil Fuel - Hydrogen, Solar, Wind. Scientists use nanotechnology to harvest electricity from temperature fluctuations. GravityLight: the low-cost lamp powered by sand and gravity | Art and design. Using Thermodynamics & 100-Year-Old Technology To Break The $20 Per MWh Barrier. A new wonder material that can generate hydrogen, produce clean water and even create energy.
News - Innovative self-cooling, thermoelectric system developed. UNIST teams develop high-rate iron oxide anode material, high-energy and high-rate cathode material for Li-ion batteries. Hydrogen fuel cell for phone charging set for 2013.