Comments (1) Beyond Pollution, Inc. – AirTap Water Heater Add-On
Interesting concept. Would have to see more info from some independent testing labs before investing that kind of money into an add on to a standard water heater.
CanadianDriver: Feature – VW 1-Litre-Car
Total rethink of the car by VW. Thing looks cool and the specs are amazing!
Architectural Wind: Clean Energy, Birds Like It, Too – Gizmodo
I like! The design and the concept are both excelent.  What limited specs are given look good too. Wonder what the lifespan is? Is it designed to be easily onsite repairable or at least component replaceable? What’s the cost? Does it come with a syncronus (sp?) inverter? AC or DC? Tomato or Tomoto? 😉
Plasma Power Systems – How the Plasma Power System Works
Somewhat simplistic but at least gives a basic understanding of how it works. Trash to gas and power. Cool!
This makes a LOT of sense. I have wondered for years why this type of ocean transport wasn’t more common. Guess the tech is catching up.
Deep-sea oil rigs inspire MIT designs for giant wind turbines – MIT News Office
Interesting concept. Though I wonder if tidal or wave energy wouldn’t be better use than wind. Though as the article states the wind that far off shore (100 miles) will be much more constant.
Engine on a chip promises to best the battery – MIT News Office
Looks like MIT is close to getting the micro turbine functional. Article states that they hope to have it operational by the end of the year. 20,000 rpm revolutions per second (thanks for the correction Steve). Sucker is booking!
Gentleman, unplug your engines
Cool, racing electric cars! Or is that electric racing cars? Or smoking electrics might fit the bill… 😉
My Way News – Aspiring ‘Biotown’ Gets Visit From CSNY
Still breaking new ground and putting their $ where their ideals are! Way to go guys!
Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Above is the original article and site. Below is the physorg.com article
Now why couldn’t physorg.com add a link to their article linking to the original?
Been here and posted about it before but another link can’t hurt. Neat stuff!
Irish company challenges scientists to test ‘free energy’ technology
Okay, if they say so but only because they’re Irish… 😉
Model 1600 – Distillers – Waterwise
My mother asked me which kind of water purification unit I wanted and this is the one I decided on.
All stainless steel construction and no moving parts. Any heat source is supposed to work and they mention wood and coal fires. Only requirement is a level surface.
Another big plus is there are no filters or other expendables used so the only ongoing costs will be the cost of heat.
Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact
How To Build a Solar Generator
Affordable solar power using auto parts could make this electricity source far more available.
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Interesting ideas. Wish for more detail but that seems the norm.
Update — Steve mentioned the auto tracker thing in a comment on this post and rather than bury this info in a comment here it is…
The easiest auto tracker I know of is a power steering assist cylinder with 2 12 oz freon cans attached on either side of a metal plate and attached to the hub of the device needing to follow the sun.
The cylinder is hooked to the control arm of the device and each side charged to balance the unit with both cans covered.
Each can is attached to one of the lines on the cylinder so that when one is in the sun the pressure is higher than the one in the shade and the unit moves to keep them both equally shaded/in the sun.
Quite elegant actually. One moving part and that is the piston.
Any low boiling temp gas should work as long as it doesn’t eat the rubber in the seals or lines. Propane should be safe and is easier and cheaper than freon r 12 to obtain and nowhere near as bad for the ozone, just highly flammable. Will have to try it and see.
Cleaner combustion from Atlanta researchers | The Register
So where is the link to more information? This sounds very interesting but without more info is pretty worthless.
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Radical turbine aims to take wind power to towns and cities
Wish they had more actual info.
This stuff is great! WIsh I had thought of it years ago. Now for the time and energy to build some of my own!
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