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Portable backyard nuclear reactor: solution to energy crisis?

Alpheus — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:39:03 +0000

Nuclear reactors don’t produce bombs alone. Fast forward to the year 2013 and you can have an endless power supply by just installing a portable nuclear power unit in your backyard. Before eyebrows are raised about the security aspect, we must...

Eco-Friendly Home

Madhuri Katti — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:13:14 +0000

This is one of the best eco-friendly homes I have ever seen. Built in Shantiniketan by a nature loving physicist couple who don’t use conventional electricity and are great...

Pioneer shoe – Pioneers in producing electricity on the move

Piyush — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:06:51 +0000

Chen Feijun and Zhao Bin have invented a shoe called Pioneer that converts kinetic energy of walking into electrical energy, which powers a headlight at the front of the shoe. This shoe has a battery within itself which once charged can...

LAPCAT – Real quick and clean hypersonic jet

Piyush — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:54:58 +0000

When technology and environment work hand-in-hand the product is sure to create a revolution. The revolutionary I’m taking about is the LAPCAT (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies). Imagine long distance air travel that...

Wave power produces electricity as cheap as coal

Piyush — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:41:39 +0000

Dexa Technologies is currently involved in the development and deployment of green energy production, namely in the area of large scale ocean wave energy converters. The idea is to produce electricity from the ocean waves at a relative low...

Statue of liberty solar light - Symbolizing the power of alternative energy in saving our planet

Piyush — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:13:17 +0000

America’s most enduring symbol of freedom can now move from Ellis Island to your lawns and walkways. It’s a monument/treasure that all Americans are proud off and would like to possess in some form or the other. This Statue of liberty...

Masdar City - World's greenest city!

Piyush — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:45:11 +0000

Abu Dhabi and the World Wildlife Fund has planned to launch their planned ‘Masdar City’, which will be home to 50,000 people, and which they hope will be the world greenest city: zero-carbon, zero-car, zero-waste. Sewage will be treated...

Cellulosic Butanol Bio-Fuel is Superior to Ethanol

Piyush — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:09:41 +0000

A team of researchers headed by an environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is plying new techniques to produce a biofuel superior to ethanol.

World's First Solar LED Headlamp

Piyush — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:12:10 +0000

New Option Lighting has developed a solar-powered LED headlamp that is ideal for outdoor activities such as camping, backpacking, hunting, fishing, bicycling, etc. Because consumers are increasingly aware of the environment, this solar LED...

Dodge ZEO Concept - The next generation of muscle cars

Piyush — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:08:28 +0000

The second of three concepts that Chrysler LLC has planned for the 2007 Detroit Auto Show is the Dodge ZEO Concept. Electric cars are absolutely the way of the future, and soon we’re going to see them take off all around the globe in a very...