Archive for October, 2009
« Previous EntriesThe state of the hybrid
Friday, October 30th, 2009HybridCars.com has a nice wrapup of the current state of the hybrid car and what’s in store in the next year – with lots of pictures. So head on over there and check out the latest intel on the Fisker Karma plug-in (due in mid 2010), the Chevy Volt (November 2010), Hyundai’s first hybrid [...]
U.S. to provide $3.4 billion in smart grid grants
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009President Obama is set to announce $3.4 billion in government grants to help build an electric smart grid. An updated electrical grid is needed not only just to carry the amount of electricity that is already being produced, but more importantly, a new grid will be needed to handle all the different components of [...]
Bat lover suing to stop wind farm in West Virginia
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Update 12/8/2009 – A Federal judge has sided with the plaintiffs and has halted the construction of Invenergy’s Beech Ridge project. Judge Roger Titus ordered the company to stop building the turbines until it gets a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The judge also barred them from operating any of the [...]
Blackhawk Tilt Rotor VAWT testing underway at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 Blackhawk TR-10 VAWT
Researchers from the Blackhawk Project are testing their new TR-10 Tilt Rotor Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) at the Dept of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES). The Blackhawk Tilt Rotor’s design uses helicopter like wings, called airfoils, that rotate parallel to the ground. The airfoils [...]
Solar charging backpacks coming to a student near you
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 G24 solar charging backpacks
G24 Innovations, a maker of lightweight flexible dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) has started shipping their solar photovoltaic modules to electronics bag manufacturer Mascotte Industrial Associates. The G24 solar modules are designed to end up in mass market consumer bags (think laptop cases and backpacks) where the panels will be able to [...]
World’s largest wind farm starts operating in Texas
Saturday, October 10th, 2009What is being called the world’s largest wind farm started operating last week – 627 wind turbines across 100,000 acres of West Texas farmland. The new Roscoe Wind Complex officially began operating last week – construction began in 2007. The turbines are located in 4 different counties in the Roscoe, Texas area, and [...]
Suniva planning to build a $250M, 400 megawatt solar cell factory in Michigan
Saturday, October 10th, 2009Suniva, a solar cell manufacturer of high efficiency silicon based monocrystalline photovoltaic solar cells, has just announced that they will be building their second solar cell manufacturing plant. Suniva’s new plant, to be based in Thomas Township in Michigan will ultimately produce about 400 megawatts of their ARTisun solar cells per year, and is expected [...]
Spain rolls out its first solar bus stop
Thursday, October 8th, 2009The Istituto Europeo di Design of Barcelona (a Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication University in Spain), the Entitat Metropolitan del Transport (the Spanish Transportation authority), and Capmar, S.L. (a Spanish company that produces urban furniture) have created and installed Spain’s first solar powered bus stop. The bus stop, which is totally self-sufficient, does a [...]
West Philly high school students build 0-60 in 4 seconds diesel hybrid
Monday, October 5th, 2009Students at West Philadelphia’s Academy of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering have built a biodiesel hybrid car that goes from 0-60 in four seconds and gets 60+ mpg. And they’re not done – they’re currently working on getting the mpg up to 100. It’s an effort to win the Automotive X-Prize – the $10 million [...]
Honda’s cool looking hybrid and electric cars to be shown at the Tokyo Motor Show
Sunday, October 4th, 2009Honda’s going to be showing two new cool cars at the upcoming Tokyo Motor show, one a hybrid, the other an electric. Honda’s been showing off various versions of the hybrid sport coupe CR-Z for a couple of years now, and the current version being shown is very close to the production model that’s slated [...]
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