Archives for June 2009
Racing goes environmentally friendly
30 June 2009 | Green Cars | 1 Comment
Racing doesn’t always have to be about the first car to reach the finish line. In an attempt to promote more green and fuel-efficient technologies, some auto races today prize those cars that have the best results in the “green” department. It means that more and more races will also be judged after the energy efficiency or greenhouse-gas emissions of the racing cars.
The Green Racing Initiave is a group that deals just with that: using the motor sport competitions (because of it’s rapid change in high-tech technologies using) to haste the development of more efficient and cleaner vehicles to latter be used in the public domain. First founded in 2006, they marked their first success at the American Le Mans Series, in October 2008.
Green Firefighter Training in Colorado
28 June 2009 | Green News | No Comments
In many cases of environmental pollution,the main factor is the burning process, which often can be started accidentally.Burning process can be found also in any car’s engine that run on fossil fuels or in big factories that burn materials to obtain other various products. In this post I want to present another aspect of environmental pollution, respectively pollution made by accidentally fires.Building fires can generate a large amount of pollutant gases that are not only harmful to the environment but are also toxic to humans.
ViewSonic VSC 100 – AIO Desktop PC
28 June 2009 | Green Technology | 2 Comments
ViewSonic launched recently on markets the new VSC 100, a revolutionary computer that can solve the two problems of many computers used until now:the space occupied and the electricity consumption.With it’s AIO design the amount of plastic used in manufacturing is reduced and consumption is 45% smaller than other computers.This new computer from ViewSonic fits perfectly on any office desk.VSC 100 PC is equipped with a 1.64GHz Intel Atom processor and with Windows XP home.
Solar Impulse present a Zero Fuel Solar Airplane
26 June 2009 | Solar Power | No Comments
Yesterday, the 26 of June, represented a milestone in solar and renewable energy developments. It was the day Solar Impulse presented the first solar powered plane to fly both day and night without producing any pollution at all. At the Dübendorf airfield in Switzerland, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, the main characters revolving the project, unveiled the HB-SIA, a prototype airplane, a marvellous piece of engineering, to the public.
Electrical Drives Systems Structure Evolution
26 June 2009 | Green Technology | No Comments
The first stage started from the middle of 19th century and consisted in the replacement of the group electrical drives with individual electrical drives. Every eqiupment was driven by at least one electrical motor an in this way the mechanical part of the drives was simplified and certain drives became more appropriate for work machines. Therefore the productivity was increased, the energy consumption of electrical drives reduced and the product quality was improved.