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New Car Engine Sends Shock Waves Through Auto Industry
Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent when compared with conventional combustion engines.
Perhaps the most notorious suppressed invention is the General Motors EV1, subject of the 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car?
The 18 Most Suppressed Inventions Ever Photo Gallery - The Original Electric Car: Unplugged? - Conspiracies on truTV
Up until now scientists thought that only the electrical charge separation effects of photons were strong enough to produce energy from sunlight.
Scientists Discover Wild Solar Energy Effect, Allows Power Without Cells
Using empty soda pop cans, a wooden frame, vacuum hose, and plexiglass you can build your own solar heater that boosts temperatures by 15 degrees!
Free Heat using Pop Cans and Plexiglass
Syngas
Syngas , or synthesis gas , is a fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen , carbon monoxide , and very often some carbon dioxide . The name comes from its use as intermediates in creating synthetic natural gas (SNG) [ 1 ] and for producing ammonia or methanol .
If the Cash for Clunkers incentive wasn’t enough to curb your unsettled feeling about owning a new gas guzzler, you might want to start saving for one of these truly awesome air-powered eco-rides.
Top Five Air Powered Vehicles
5 Myths About Renewable Energy"
Solar electricity isn't the only renewable energy whipping boy out there.
An intermittent energy source is any source of energy that is not continuously available due to some factor outside direct control. The intermittent source may be quite predictable, for example, tidal power , but cannot be dispatched to meet the demand of a power system.