Archive for July, 2008
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008tesla
I couldn’t resist posting this. Â Just a couple of hours of taking delivery of his brand new Tesla, the owner (unnamed) got himself in an accident! A minor fender bender - nobody was injured, but boy, that’s gotta hurt. So far, only about 10 of the $109,000 Tesla electric cars have [...]
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Canada’s National Post test drives the 2008 BMW Hydrogen 7
Monday, July 28th, 2008and drinks from its tailpipe. Which, David Booth - the reporter, was happy to announce, tasted just like water, because that’s what hydrogen fueled cars produce.
David Booth is actually drinking ‘exhaust’ from the tailpipe of the BMW Hydrogen 7, which emits only water. Cliff Spicer for National Post
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Thermoelectrics can help your car generate electricity from its tailpipe
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Researchers at Ohio State have have invented a new materials that could help cars become more fuel efficient by converting the heat produced by the engine into electricity. The concept of producing electricity from heat, called themoelectrics, has been around for awhile, but the researchers, led by Joseph Heremans and Vladimir Jovovic [...]
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US News and World Report: Investor’s Guide to What’s Green
Friday, July 25th, 2008If anyone is interested in investing in Green Tech, you might want to check out this Investor’s Guide to What’s Green, published by US News & World Report. Â Subtitled “A look at companies with a stake in clean energy”, the report lists numerous companies as Greenish Big Players, Midsize Mainstays, and Up-and-Comers.
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Texas beefing up transmission lines for additional wind power
Saturday, July 19th, 2008The Texas Public Utility Commission has just approved the construction of almost five billion dollars worth of electricity transmission lines in order to carry power generated by new wind power farms in West Texas and the Texas Panhandle to the more populated parts of the state like Austin, Dallas, and Houston.
The new lines, [...]
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Finland company to build Fisker Karma plugin hybrid
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Autoweek is reporting that Valmet Automotive, a Finnish company will start manufacturing the Fisker Karma plugin hybrid four door sports car beginning late 2009. Â Â They expect to make about 15,000 hybrids per year. Â Â The Karma claims an electric only range of 50 miles, and a total range of over 350 miles. Â They [...]
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Construction begins on new Michigan wind power farm
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Construction of a new wind farm in the Ubly area of Michigan has begun. Â The wind farm, which is being built by Nobel Environmental Power and RMT WindConnect, will consist of 46 GE wind turbines in Bingham and Sheridan townships, and will generate 1.5 megawatts of wind power - enough for about 23,000 homes. [...]
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MIT researchers develop new solar power windows
Friday, July 11th, 2008In a press release, MIT researchers have reported that they have developed solar power concentrators that can be used to turn windows into solar panels. Â Their new technique paints the window glass with a mixture of two or more tranparent organic dyes that absorbs and transports the light to solar cells that are positioned around [...]
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Toyota to produce Prius instead of SUV’s at its new US plant
Thursday, July 10th, 2008According to Reuters, Toyota is changing over the production line from their new plant to be built in Mississippi from SUV’s to the Prius. The new plant, which was orginally scheduled to start making Tundra’s and Sequoia SUVs in 2010 will be switched over to the Prius - as a result of the [...]
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EEStor news due out soon?
Sunday, July 6th, 2008I spotted an article about Zenn Motors in the Calgary Herald that says that EEStor Inc, the maker of ultracapacitors that supposedly will make electrochemical batteries obsolete, is expected to release the results of independent third-party testing of its ultracapacitors sometime in the next couple of weeks. We’ll be watching and waiting.
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