From the monthly archives: September 2008
Wind turbines designed to be installed on rooftops are generating a lot interest lately. These compact turbines can be located on top of buildings, or attached to other parts of large structures like bridges. In turns out, though, that installing wind turbine in a city environment is a bit of an art.
The [...]
I’d like to present you Solar LED bricks. This technology is using the solar power to charge a capacitor, which is stored inside of the light, and then during the night, the energy is restored. The company which is manufacturing this equipement is called Simbiousa and you can find their website here.
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After Nanosolar’s investment of $300 milion this week it is SoloPower which is raising almost $200 million to speed up manufacturing of its thin-film solar cells.
SoloPower is based in San Jose, California. The company makes solar cells from CIGS, which is a combination of copper, indium, gallium, and selenide which a [...]
The Prius plug-in version is in UK for testing performance. Toyota will be testing the batteries and the charging points. There is about 40 charging points installed by EDF, the Energy company (Electricite de France).
It is possible to recharge the car batteries from any domestic socket. The car is still hybrid model, and you [...]
Tata Motors plans to introduce the electric version of its Indica hatchback, the ‘Indica ev’ in Norway in 2009 and a year later in India. The low cost cars, now going electric, it’s pretty cool. Its going to be the elctric version of the Indica which is already on the [...]
This wind turbine is silent and high efficient. It’s callet Energy Ball.
The Energy Ball uses the Venturi effect, a measurement of pressure created by forcing incompressible liquid through a restricted section of pipe. The Energy Ball channels air through six blades, accelerating the speed of the air as it blows around [...]
The new Insight Concept shares styling cues with the Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle.
According to EcoGeek , the new Honda’s hybrid cars will cost less than 20,000$. Actually, acording the source the 5-door hybrid model will be only 18,500$. That’s a good news. I don’t if for European customers there [...]
I found it googling – this PDF from Nanosolar’s website explaining actually the progress the firm is making developping hte CIGS technology. It’s called ” High-performance Thin-film photovoltaics using Low-cost process technology “. The paper explaining that the CIGS can can deliver sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiencies of 19.5%. The paper then [...]
Toyota will place several hundred plug-in Prius vehicles in commercial fleets by the end of next year. We migh see one soon on the road close to you… -:)
A lot of people can’t wait to try them.
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