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Luxgen Launches a New All-Electric MPV

Mike — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:44:53 +0000

Luxgen, a Taiwanese company, has unveiled at the Dubai International Auto Show a new all-electric MPV that according to the company, it will the world’s first all-electric 7-passenger MPV. The car utilizes the same technology found in HTC smart phones to combine electric power, luxury and advanced technology all in the same package. Dubbed the EV+, [...]

Hydrofill- First Portable Desktop Hydrogen Generator

Mike — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:25:40 +0000

Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a Singaporean company will launch this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the world’s first portable desktop hydrogen generator. Called the HYDROFILL, the device plugs into a power supply, a small wind turbine or a solar panel and automatically extracts hydrogen from its water tank. After that, the generated [...]

New Process to Convert Crude Glycerin into Biofuel

Mike — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:09:40 +0000

For example products like soaps are produced from high grade glycerin, but huge quantities of crude glycerin is simply disposed as waste. For this reason, Glycos Biotechnologies Inc. is trying to commercializing glycerin-gobbling microorganisms created by researchers at Rice University. For reducing the cost of the operation, Glycos Biotechnologies is trying to integrated bioconversion into individual [...]

Mercedes-Benz S-class Hybrid to be Launched in 2010

Mike — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:44:41 +0000

Mercedes-Benz is planning to launch this year plug-in hybrid variant of S-Class, having great aerodynamic properties and improvements in its weight, which coupled with the hybrid drivetrain, allow the car to emit less than 100g/km of CO2 and boast a fuel efficiency of 80mpg. “It makes a lot of sense to bundle the high-price tech option [...]

Engineered Tobacco Leaves to Produce More Biofuel

Mike — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:19:15 +0000

Scientists at the Biotechnology Foundations Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have developed a new technique to increase biofuel production from tobacco plants. Researchers claim that tabacco can produce biofuel more efficiently than other agricultural crops. A new study shows that most of the oil is typically found in the seeds and tobacco seeds being composed of [...]

World’s 3rd Biggest Wind Power Producer to Reach 20 Gigawatts this Year

Mike — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:03:54 +0000

In November 2009 a wind turbine complex on the Zhemo Mountain in the outskirts of Dali makes China the world’s third largest wind power producer. According to Shi Lishan, vice director of the National Energy Administration’s New Energy Department the giant wind turbine complex will generate about 20 gigawatts this year. After the Germany and United [...]

First Wind-Powered Car to Break the Land Speed Record

Mike — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:49:57 +0000

Dale Vince, Britain’s richest green entrepreneur and the founder of green energy supplier Ecotricity (an energy provider which invests profits into wind turbines) aims to break the land speed record in an all-electric vehicle called the Nemesis. Nemsis has been designed by Formula 1 engineers, costing about £400,000. According to the officials, during tests, the vehicle [...]

Hybrid Engine on the Ferrari 599 GBT Fiorano Reduces Fuel Consumption Up to 35%

Cristi — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:04:02 +0000

All around the world you can hear that Ferrari turns green, that they have already mounted some solar panels over their factory but no one really saw any actions towards reducing fuel consumption. The Italian magazine Quattroroute wants to prove us wrong here. They just announced that Ferrari is building a hybrid car based on the [...]

Two-Sided Solar Panels With Increased Efficiency Due to DuROCK Tio-Coating

Cristi — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:20:27 +0000

Avacos Solar helped the integration of 2 great newly developed technologies from Sanyo Canada Inc and DuROCK Alfacing International Inc. On one side Sanyo has developed a HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin-layer) double bifacial solar photovoltaic module which has a 30% more efficiency than normal photovoltaic cells, while on the other hand DuROCK has developed [...]

Glitter-Size Photovoltaic Cells Prove as Efficient as Conventional Silicon Cells

Cristi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:43:46 +0000

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a glitter size photovoltaic cell that has the efficiency of a normal silicon cell. Using about 100 times less silicon, the new cells are able to produce the same amount of electricity as conventional solar cells.Made of crystalline silicon, the new photovoltaic cells have the same micro-manufacturing processes [...]