Lithium-Air Batteries – Likely To Be The Most Important Breakthrough For Deposing Gasoline

With no viable alternative to gasoline oil in sight, the search for a more environmentally-friendly solution is still on, but, as it turns out, the day gasoline is to be displaced is years away, as current research standings seem to indicate. Nevertheless, some favorite gasoline replacements have come to light. One of them certainly is the lithium-air battery. As far as its capability goes, the arrival of this technology will surely produce great excitement in the scientific community, as well as for most energy corporations.

The New Citroen C-Zero – Zero Emissions, 100% Electric

The new model from the french car manufacturer, Citroen, is the company’s second electric car, after the Berlingo van. Made in partnership with Mitsubishi, the new model earns its name from a number of aspects: it has zero fuel consumption, zero CO2 emissions and zero noise. Based on the earlier version of the Mitsubishi iMiev, the new car will be available as from late 2010 and it will be deprived of 5000 euros from the French government, as a bonus to buyers who pick environmentally-friendly models.

Solar Powered Bicycle Of The Future Can’t Be Stolen

Simple design, elegant and full of electronics. This is how Chris Boardman pictures the bike of the future. The 40-years old cyclist, who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, imagined a bicycle that is “impossible to steal” ,working only by passing the fingerprint recognition system installed. It also features a mini-computer that display the burned calories, wheels without spikes to make it more aerodynamic and self-inflating, puncture-proof tyres.

Nissan LEAF – An Affordable New Electric Car

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We are living some incredible times. Big changes are about to take place in the way we think of electric vehicles. With worlds oil reserves much lower than evaluated, an alternative solution is needed more than ever and it’s becoming clearer that the electric car is one of the answers.

Solar charger for iPhone and Blackberry

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With all this current hype about environmentally-friendly products, it seems that Apple, with their iPhone and the Blackberry phones have been left behind. Well, that is about to change. A company called Motion Touch, announced a new eco-friendly product called “Powcell”, a solar mobile phone charger which works for iPhone’s and Blackberry’s.

Nissan Altima – The Cutting-Edge Hybrid Car

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When it comes to environmentally-friendly cars, Nissan Altima is in the top of it’s class. The hybrid car from Nissan is a middle size sedan with a starting price at a little over $26,000. Not really the cheapest hybrid vehicle there is, but it has some incredible performances.

Nissan’s New Electric Car

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The Japanese car manufacturer, Nissan, announced today it’s latest electric car prototype, a model similar to the existing car, Tiida, with improved performances. The car’s design will be made public on the second of august, at the company’s HQ from Yokohama.This zero-emission car will be available in the USA and Japan next year, with plans for the European market for 2012. It will be a five-seat family hatchback with four doors .

Microfluidic Fuel Cells Could Provide Energy for Portable Devices

microfluidic-fuel-cell Daniel Spencer an engineer who recently finished studies at Meng in Electronic Engineering at the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science, has found a new way to store electricity for portable devices.Daniel says that the energy source can not provide directly all the electricity and for this reason the electricity need to bestored in batteries.

Mint Energy Rechargeable Battery-Just Shake it for Full Energy

mintpass One of the main problems that we encounter on our gadgets is the short life of batteries.New developed batteries can work a long period, but what happens when, after this long period, the battery remain without electricity and you are located somewhere in nature, at a picnic or a walk?What you will do if you remain without electricity in your portable device?

USB phone charger using solar cells

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Solar powering has gone pretty popular lately. In the picture above is 4-port USB depicted, that is said to also be able to charge mobile phone batteries. The hub is able to recharge its internal battery(with a capacity of 700mAh) from a computer USB port, but has also the ability, using its solar cell to power different devices through the USB port from its battery.

Super-Fast Charging Batteries from Japan

kawasaki_swimo Japan takes a big leap into making the world of transport cleaner, less fuel-powered and more environmental-friendly. With the help from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Kawasaki Heavy Industries has announced the production of a battery that charges in matters of minutes, 10, to be more exact.

Zero-emission buses from Mercedes

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Companies seem to care more about the environment. Following the rising trend of hybrid vehicles, the German car manufacturer, Mercedes, announced the new Citaro G Blue Tec Hybrid. The new model will be more environmental-friendly and brings improvement to fuel efficiency, thus reducing the energy consumption up to 30 percent. Coming after the great success of the Citaro series, the new model promises to bring hybrid technology to a whole new level, never before seen in the European arena.

Kinetic Charger nPower Personal Energy Generator

nPower PEG is a kinetic charger designed by Tremont Electric,perfect for your electrical gadgets,that will not remain without power during walks or travels (in motion) … The performances of this devices are not so high, but can load 80% of a mobile phone battery in an hour, during a simple walk.nPower PEG (Personal Energy Generator) is very small, fit in your pocket or purse, and is very easy to use (by simply connecting to your phone or mp3).Tremont Electric say that if everyone would wear such a kinetic charger one hour per day, the energy saved would be enough to power to 21.000 homes for a year. Read more

Silent Santinel First Military Hybrid Aircraft

Silent Sentinel is a hybrid aircraft, a solar powered UAV, which will be used soon for military purposes.Ascent Solar Technologies and Bye Aerospace announced that the solar powered aircraft will be used not only for military purposes(will be used also for commercial purposes or other purposes) .

People will not travel with this hybrid aircraft because is still pretty dangerous.(because this technology is still at the beginning, it is not so advanced, and the airplane manufacturers do not want to assume any risks of an accident).This plane can fly because of energy produced by solar panels on its wings.At startup this plane uses an advanced Williams International FJ33 turbofan, powered by some lithium-ion batteries.

“The resultant aircraft will be quiet, agile and robust. Bye Aerospace is not the first to attempt the feat, as Aurora Flight Sciences has also designed two solar-powered aircraft, including the Odysseus for DARPA’s Vulture Program and the Sunlight Eagle, which is a lightweight aircraft relying only on solar energy.” – www.ecofriend.org

NoPoPo Urine Powered Flashlight

In some previous posts we presented many strange energy sources, but the next one is something very special.The flashlight in the picture above is powered by some special batteries based on urine(urine powered).These NoPoPo batteries can run up to 10 years, but can be recharged only 4 times.If you calculate the total duration of life of these batteries, in 4 loadings, we can appreciate that 40 years of life is something really revolutionary.

These batteries are rated at 500mAh, and can be recharged with some non stinking liquids as water, soda and even beer.You can find the NoPoPo flashlight in stores at $ 39, a high price for a flashlight, but taking into account that these flashlights use NoPoPo batteries, this product is still a good choice.

Source: www.ecofriend.org

Solar Powered iUnika GYY Netbook Computer

iUnika GYY is a netbook computer designed by the Spanish company iUnika and has a weight of only 700 gm.Some small solar panels are mounted on the rear of the display.This electricity produced is used for a GNU/Linux operating system(400MHz processor).This netbook computer has a flash memory of 64 gb, only 128MB RAM which is enough to run many applications.The system also comes with Wi-Fi and a 10/100 Ethernet card.

The performances are not too impressive, but this netbook computer is very cheap and is also powered by solar energy,so,you will save electricity 100%.Another advantage is that it can be used anywhere, however, compared to normal laptops(the batteries have limited energy).The price of such a computer is from $160 to $200 and can be found online or in all iUnik centers.

Chinese Roll Charger Used for Recovery and Charging Batteries

Many technologies have appeared today, having as starting point the old “traditions” or to call them exactly, “old sciences”.Using these old theories, people have managed to create more intelligent devices, combining old sciences with our advanced new technology.Among big investors from all the world,in intelligent devices field,we can mention China.I think you all heard about the Chinese medical techniques and about their efficiency.We heard about the popular acupuncture, Shiatsu massage, baoding balls, etc.In this post I want to present some Chinese baoding balls, which fulfill two functions simultaneously.Those balls works similar to acupuncture, helps to cure the following organs: heart, liver, Spleen, lungs, kidneys, gallbladder, stomach and second intestines.The second role of these balls is to charge batteries.This thing was possible by combining new technology with the usual medical technology,resulting a device that helps to recovery and load batteries due to kinetic energy.This device can charge batteries while it is in motion(kinetic energy). With 2 baoding balls used to stimulate the internal organs nervous centers, you can simultaneously load two batteries. rollcharger1

This charger is compatible with both AA and AAA batteries.To these balls were attached LED indicators that will announce with the red light when the batteries are fully charged.The name of this battery chatger is Roll Charger,was created by Shanghai designer Jiang Qian, and it may soon appear in specialty stores around the world (the combination of health with the technology makes these boading balls a unique,irreplaceable device).

“As the traditional Chinese health fitness toys, two balls in a pair rubbed by hands, function health benefit by stimulating acupuncture points and loosening bones and muscle.The health care balls, with charger inside, change mechanical energu into electricity through the hands of friction rotation.You only can put one battery in one ball.The ball can be switched on in the middle which is very convenient access to the battery.Playing ball, people do the fitness while charging, which is an environmental way.” – http://www.coroflot.com

Electric Harley Davidson Trunk Reaches 130 km/h

In a world of companies trying to produce more and more green motorcycles, a new project designed and developed by Nicolas Petit, could make history.This motorcycle is designed after the famous Harley Davidson model,but the only difference between the old Harley Davidson and this motorcycle is that cause the newer model runs on electricity.

The prototpe is called “Harley Davidson Trunk“, is powered by lithium-ion batteries that put in motion an electric engine that produces 650 torque.The performances of this electric engine are not very high, but considering this is a green engine with 0 emissions, Harley Davidson Trunk ,is a great project, it reach a speed of 130km / h, going from 0-50km / h in under 3.5 seconds. harleydavidsontrunkelectricbike

Through this transformation, Harley Davidson-green motorbike not suffer a radical change of appearance and still keeping the “roads-beast” appearance.But this beast will not pollute the environment, and may have a lower price ,so people could buy this electric bike to protect environment as much as possible.

Electricity Shoe Generator for Your Mobile Phone

We all know that nowadays one fairly important problem is represented by charging systems for all our gadgets that we use day by day.Until now were discovered many ways to charge gadgets, from various sources of energy.What you see in the picture below is a shoe that generate electricity during walking.

This electricity shoe generator can be built with a small generator from a rechargeable flashlight( rig it up so you can turn the generator axle when you step down, and channel that energy to a cell phone or other portable device).

So wherever you are, with such shoes you will not remain without electricity on your mobile phone.The only thing that you have to keep in mind is,when you build such a device you must give attention on shoe design(to maintain the usual appearance of a shoe

Regenerative Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

electriccarchargingstation    The stationary charger has more power and efficiency, but it reduces the vehicle independency.The requirements for a stationary charger are:the output voltage situated between 60 and 200 V and the current intensity from 20 to 200 Amps.
   The charging stations require an infrastructure connected to existing electric supplying networks.This infrastructure must have some characteristics:
- The type of material to be used for terminals, protection, signalisation;
- The localisation of the charging plug;
- The connection between vehicle and clamps;
- The security related to electrotechnical installation.
   The inductive charging eliminates the problem of wiring the vehicle to the charger (wear and crrosion, influence of water, ice, oil and dirt, vandalism).The inductive charger operates on the principle of a transformer.The primary windings are vertically located on the wall or horizontally, on the vehicle’s board, together with the actual charger.Charging process consists of driving the vehicle close to the primary windings (the clereance of 5 cm, between primary and secondary windings, is sufficient for an inductive coupling between both windings).
   Regenerative energy supply is required to protect the environment in the transport sector.The wind and the sun are significant energy sources at the moment.Wind installations are generally limites to a hundred kilowatts.A solar station can be up to 1,5 kW.The cost of a recharging station is to high at this moment, but the installation is expected to be the future potential reimplacement of the conventional recharging stations supplied by the electric network distribution.

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