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Just an FYI - I've closed my automation section here and will be moving that content to a new site - stay tuned for more information... Views: 180 • Comments: 0 • Write comments NewsAutomotive X-Prize
From http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/ Video with Jay Leno about the Auto X-Prize On March 20th at the New York International Auto Show, the X PRIZE Foundation and Progressive Insurance jointly announced the $10 million dollar Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. "Let the race begin!" said X PRIZE Chairman and CEO Dr. Peter Diamandis. Complete details here. People love their cars. They are vital links to our jobs, our community, ourselves. For everything we love about them, cars are chained to the most severe global crises of our time: oil dependence and climate change. Through an exciting partnership with Progressive Insurance, the newly renamed Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE invites teams from around the world to focus on a single goal: design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy. This will be a race for the ages, with major publicity and $10 million waiting for the champions… and perhaps our future hanging in the balance. Link to Popular Mechanics Video http://video.popularmechanics.com/services/link/bcpid1463312876/bctid1467273772 Views: 359 • Comments: 0 • Write comments Energy: Dean Kamen’s small power plant and water purifier
Found this very interesting story on the web. Dean Kamen has unveiled the latest iteration of his power and water package for the third world. The two components are a water purifier called Slingshot that uses a fraction of the power of alternatives and a Stirling engine based power generator that works on cow dung. The $1500 water purifier will produce 1000 liters of water a day, while the $3,700 generator produces around 1 kW, which is enough to deliver light to a small village. The two products have been in development for years, but it looks as though they are now ready for more prime time consideration. It’s amazing that in this day and age, when investment bankers routinely take home $50 million paychecks, we can’t seem to work out how to help the majority of people on this planet from being at risk through lack of water and power. Astonishing. Here’s hoping things change sooner rather than later. Source: RedFerret Views: 647 • Comments: 0 • Write comments Energy: Home made Wind Turbine
The following is a link to a great little site in which a camper & astronomer built his own Wind Generator from used items. MDPub's Wind Turbine And a neat site where you can buy ready made wind turbines and solar panel systems here Views: 563 • Comments: 0 • Write comments Energy: New source for BioFuels?
New Source for Biofuels Discovered, Thursday, April 24, 2008 AUSTIN, Texas--A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation’s transportation fuel if production can be scaled up. Along with cellulose, the cyanobacteria developed by Professor R. Malcolm Brown Jr. and Dr. David Nobles Jr. secrete glucose and sucrose. These simple sugars are the major sources used to produce ethanol. “The cyanobacterium is potentially a very inexpensive source for sugars to use for ethanol and designer fuels,” says Nobles, a research associate in the Section of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Brown and Nobles say their cyanobacteria can be grown in production facilities on non-agricultural lands using salty water unsuitable for human consumption or crops. Read the full article here Views: 407 • Comments: 0 • Write comments Energy: Gasoline grows on trees?
Very good article about a local college's work on making BioFuel from wood and other plant waste: Reporting in the cover article of the April 7, 2008 issue of Chemistry & Sustainability, Energy & Materials (ChemSusChem), chemical engineer and National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardee George Huber of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) and his graduate students Torren Carlson and Tushar Vispute announced the first direct conversion of plant cellulose into gasoline components. In the same issue, James Dumesic and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin-Madison announce an integrated process for creating chemical components of jet fuel using a green gasoline approach. While Dumesic's group had previously demonstrated the production of jet-fuel components using separate steps, their current work shows that the steps can be integrated and run sequentially, without complex separation and purification processes between reactors Full Article here Another article here Views: 439 • Comments: 0 • Write comments Energy: Home made Solar Panel
The following is a link to a great little site in which a camper / astronomer built his own Solar Panel (from used solar cells). Solar Panel And a neat site where you can buy ready made wind turbines and solar panel systems here Views: 489 • Comments: 0 • Write comments |
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