Harvesting Energy From Vibrating Railroad Tracks Could Save Hundreds of Millions
A Sudden Inspiration To say energy is “ripe” is to say it is there for the taking, if we know how to “harvest it.” Lei Zou of Stony Brook was traveling on a train when…
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Elon Musk’s Low Energy Hyperloop Project Concept Ready For San Francisco, Los Angeles Corridor
Over the past several months the concept of a “Hyperloop” transportation system has been reported on and hotly debated without much in the way of practical details as to how the system could be realized.…
New Flexible Glass Will Significantly Reduce The Cost Of Solar Panels
There is an interesting story about ancient Rome which tells us that flexible glass is a legendary lost invention from the time of the reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar. Tiberius Caesar ordered the execution…
Proven UK Oil Reserves Can Still Produce 30 Billion Barrels
Proven Oil Reserves Looking Good And On The Upswing The UK has produced 37 billion barrels of oil since the first North Sea oil boom 35 years ago and not too long ago, the British…
Solar Panels Could Destroy US Utilities According to US Utilities
It is beginning to look as though the solar energy industry could deal a big blow to entrenched, mammoth, regulated monopolies, otherwise known as US power utilities, over the coming decades. Large US utilities have…
Wind Energy Could Supply 5 Times The Current Energy Production
The potential for wind energy is immense. It is estimated that if wind turbines are installed in all potentially breezy locations (including off shore turbines), the energy it can produce will equate to five times…
Green Energy Creating Giant Distributed Utilities Powered By You
At a TED conference this week entrepreneur Elon Musk predicted solar and wind energy revolutions would create a “giant distributed utility” bigger and more powerful than monopolistic utilities existing today. Additionally, a recent report from…
This Building Will Eat Smog And Look Good Doing It
American Architect Richard Meier’s “White Sails” Coated With New Material Italcementi Group, technical sponsor of a new church in Rome commemorating the 2,000th anniversary of Christianity, was asked to come up with a cement that…
Bloomberg Announces 2013 New Energy Pioneers From Around The World
Bloomberg’s sixth annual New Energy Finance Summit in New York City recognizes 10 leading companies out of more than 200 from around the world from energy sectors including bioenergy, energy efficiency, digital energy and solar…
Can A Revolutionary New Gas Eliminate All The World’s Pollution?
Revolutionary Technology To Make Fossil Fuels “Climate Neutral” A company called HydroInfra Technolgies (HIT) based in Stockholm, Sweden has created a new patented “scrubber” process that will drastically reduce pollutants emitted by the world’s 60,000…
