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.
Confirmed By Science – LED Lightbulbs Save Considerable Energy
A new study states that LED lightbulbs consume far less energy than incandescent bulbs in their entire lifetime. The study was conducted by Osram, a big lightning company from Germany and has studied and inspected the entire life of a LED bulb, from manufacturing down to its removal, during which they measured the total energy consumption, as well as the gas emissions ejected during the whole procedure. They also accounted for major global warming threats in each process, like the acid rain potential, photochemical ozone creation, eutrophication or the pollution through the release toxic chemical materials.
AirPod – The Car That Runs On Compressed Air – Has Some “Air Leaks”
In the last days of the gasoline-powered vehicles, the competition for the car of the future is harsh and open for surprises. There is still no definitive winner, although the electric car has won some important “battles”. Yet other technologies await recognition and some attention from the public. For example, the pneumatic-propelled engine technology has taken some major steps towards the big stage.
German Team Wins First Prize At The Solar Decathlon
Hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Solar Decathlon is a competition held for three weeks in October, where 20 teams of college and university students from Canada, U.S.A. and Europe, compete to design and build the most energy efficient and effective house, using solar technology. The event is also intended to be open for the public, so they can observe the latest solar equipments and technology used to create one of the most efficient houses in the world.
Solar Roadways Could Power The Entire World
We all know how hot and how much heat the roads dissipate during summer times. We all have seen the hot road mirage on the highways, where the road seems soaked in a pool of water. Well, what if this heat and energy can, in some way be extracted and stored as electrical energy ? This was the idea that captivated Scott Brusaw’s imagination since childhood. Now, as a grown man, after he acknowledged the dangers of global warming, he came up with the concept that enables him to use this, once lost, energy. After years of development, together with his wife, they introduced Solar Roadways, a company designed for a fully digitized roads, that could ,theoretically, someday power the entire world.
Charge Your Electronics With Voltaic Backpacks Made From Recycled PET Bottles
The invention of the solar cells, those devices that convert the energy of light into electrical energy, was really a bliss to mankind. The first solar cells were created in 1954 by three American researchers, Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin, out of very thin stripes of silicon capable of about six percent conversion efficiency. After more than 50 years, today’s highest solar cell conversion is 22%. They were also the first ones to create solar panels.
Nissan Altima – The Cutting-Edge Hybrid Car
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
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 .
75% More Efficient OLEDs Developed
Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) made a impressive breakthrough in the improvement of OLED technology. The new research brought to light an incredible 75% cut Read more
Green Treasures – Racing goes environmentally friendly
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.
Solar Impulse present a Zero Fuel Solar Airplane
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.
Wind – capable of powering the entire world
The solution to planet’s energy problems is right at hand. Although this might come as a surprise to some, according to a study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, if the world turned to wind for it’s energy demands, there would be so much of it available, that would make the search for other sources seem senseless.
In the study, the Earth was divided into surfaces of 3,300 square kilometers (1,274 square miles) to be able to appreciate the wind power capability, while monitoring wind velocity every six hours. Excluded from the calculations were “areas classified as forested, areas occupied by permanent snow or ice, areas covered by water, and areas identified as Read more
Hybride Solar/LED lightning saves up to 85% energy
The newly founded Visible Light Solar Technologies announced the Vector line of hybrid solar/LED lighting systems to help replace the many millions of street lights as well as the industrial and commercial interior/exterior lighting systems from the US and reduce energy costs for the average tax payers. The new technologies provide energy savings and reduces maintenance costs. Measurements show that municipalities, businesses and consumers could save up to 189 terawatt hours of energy by switching from conventional HID(high-intensity discharge) or normal incandescent bulb lights to LED illumination, or in other qualities as saving $20 billion in electricity costs or taking 16 million homes off the grid.
The company has already started installing Vector lightning systems at 12 sites, such as Osuna Business Park ,Bosque School and DKD Electric. Besides greatly
LED-Flashlight without batteries – recharges in only 90 seconds
The company 5.11 Tactical, mostly known as a clothing manufacturer, gave last year the news that they build a highly technologized flashlight named “Light for Life”. The time has finally come the company set the product ready for selling and what this flashlight is capable of is pretty amazing.
The flashlight consists of 3 LED lights and requires no conventional batteries but instead is equipped with a new technology called Flashpoint Power, which uses ultracapacitor energy storage systems to benefit the recharging process.
Green Treasures – Solar Project DESERTEC – a real possibility
Some important investors such as Siemens AG, Deutsche Bank or the Energy supplier Eon, have shown keen interest in the DESERTEC Concept. The project is designed to build large wind farms and solar parks and other alternative energy sources such as Geothermal around the North African continent coastlines and mainly on desserts. It will cost about 400 billion euros (that is $552 billion) and and will be capable of delivering electricity to Europe and other areas in ten years.
The Project will use the available technologies that have already been proven to work efficiently.
Europe to get powered by solar panels placed in the Sahara
In the perspective of a “greener” future, today’s projects bring us closer to that reality and make big promises: covering only a small portion of the Sahara dessert, having a probable size of a regular European country, with solar cells will potentially provide the whole of the European continent with electricity. That is what Anthony Patt, of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, in Austria, declared at the International Scientific Congress on climate change under the title “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions”, held at the University of Copenhagen in March this year.
Green Treasures – Best water purification methods explained
Although we are supposed to live in the most highly technologized society this Earth has ever seen, but water pollution and the task of providing the people with clean, healthy water seems to be still a very concerning and difficult issue for the
world governments to solve. If nowadays the large part of the urban societies are used to pay for, either mineral water or some
other type of water-based drink, the availability of clean, fresh water should be a benefit to every human being
on this Earth being a basic human need! Read more
Zero-emission buses from Mercedes
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.