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Submission + - 3000 km on Water and Waste Oil (pesn.com)

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sterlingda

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @01:48PM

sterlingda writes: "Bios Fuel Corporation of New Zealand drove a Toyota Landcruiser across the Australian Desert from Darwin to Adelaide, running a virtually unmodified diesel engine on 40% Water and 60% Waste Mineral oil as part of the Greenfleet Class of the Panasonic World Solar Challenge. Bios Fuel claims to have developed a water-based fuel technology that allows hydrogen to be housed safely in water and released on demand for numerous applications. A proprietary catalyst allows water to be suspended in waste oil as an emulsion. The fuel is designed for power generation. It is one of several blends that Bios Fuel has certified to American ASTM standards."

Submission + - New brushless generator for wind turbines (physorg.com)

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on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @01:00AM

sterlingda writes: "A research team from the University of Cambridge have developed a new generator technology for the wind turbine industry to the point of commercial exploitation, for application in a wide spectrum of wind turbines ranging from multi-megawatt systems for wind farms down to domestic micro turbines."

Submission + - Thermal Paint that Generates Electricity (pesn.com)

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on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @01:42AM

sterlingda writes: "Industrial Nanotech, Inc. an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, has announced that the Company is now in the development stage of a thermal insulation material that will generate electricity. The company presently produces a Nansulate coating, which, when applied to industrial piping prevents corrosion and is said to lower energy use by 10-20%. "After almost three years of research on producing thin sheets of thermal insulation which use the temperature differential that insulation inherently creates as a source for generating electricity, we are moving to the development stage and designing the first prototype material and filing the patents necessary to protect this valuable intellectual property," states Stuart Burchill, CEO of Industrial Nanotech, Inc."

Submission + - Inflatable, Affordable Electric Car (pesn.com) 3

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Sterling Allan

on Saturday September 15, 2007 @01:46AM

Sterling Allan writes: "XP Vehicles(TM) announced on Thursday that it's Whisper(TM) electric car is being developed for online direct ship distribution at sub $5000.00 price-points. This would be the world's first crash-proof, long range, flat-pack vehicle. A baffled pressure tube system provides the supporting and protective structure of the vehicle, making it so safe that the engineers for the Whisper are confident you can drive it off a 25-foot cliff without serious injury to its passengers."

Submission + - Cold Fusion's Commercialization Begs Funding (wired.com)

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Sterling Allan

on Friday August 24, 2007 @01:44AM

Sterling Allan writes: "A recent conference on Cold Fusion at MIT concludes that with 3,000+ published studies from around the world describing excess energy from tabletop fusion devices, the question of whether Cold Fusion is real is not the issue. According to Wired's report on the conference, now the question is whether or not it can be made commercially viable, and to answer that, some serious funding is needed."

Submission + - Electrostatic Magnet Motor Made from Kitchen Stuff (peswiki.com)

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Sterling Allan

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:19PM

Sterling Allan writes: "Scott F. Hall, an associate professor of art at the University of Central Florida, was tinkering around with stuff in his kitchen and came up with a continuously rotating mechanism that appears to harness electrostatic energy from the atmosphere — or something. The gizmo spins at around 80 revolutions per minute, and is constructed from a can of dog food, tooth picks, refrigerator magnets, a pencil, spring clips, and a small corner cut out of a box. Three toothpics are formed into an inverted tripod and spin atop the fourth toothpick held vertical by a spring clip that has magnets situated around the base. A graphite pencil is held over the the point of the inverted tripod via another spring clip sitting atop the can of dog food. Hall (suitable last name) posted a video at YouTube showing the gizmo running. The next day, he posted another video showing a round paperweight spinning (though not continuously) via magnets placed on its perimeter, with magnets on two adjoining dog food cans."

Submission + - Fire from Salt Water

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sterlingda

on Saturday May 26, 2007 @05:09PM

sterlingda writes: "John Kanzius and his associate Charlie Rutkowski have found a way to create energy by burning salt water with the same radio wave machine they are using to kill cancer cells. Kanzius and Rutkowski were testing their external radio-wave generator to see if it could desalinate salt water, and it ignited. A university chemist determined that the process is generating hydrogen. While the phenomenon is interesting, it is not yet practical for energy generation inasmuch as more energy is consumed by the radio frequency device than is produced for burning. [memo do be deleted: the wiki server should be able to handle slashdotted bandwidth]"

Submission + - New Form of Matter Melds Lasers, Superconductors

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on Friday May 18, 2007 @09:31PM

sterlingda writes: ""Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors — superconductors. The work introduces a new method of moving energy from one point to another as well as a low-energy means of producing a light beam like that from a laser. The new state is a solid filled with a collection of energy particles known as polaritons that have been trapped and slowed." The work is published in the May 18 issue of Science."

Submission + - PV Silicon breakthrough wins MIT prize

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Sterling D. Allan

on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @09:19PM

Sterling D. Allan writes: "Silicon shortages have logjammed the solar industry, causing otherwise feasible plants to shut down or lay off workers, even though the demand has been skyrocketing. Silicon production worldwide is at around 40,000 tons per year, while the present demand is approaching 75,000 tons/year. Tuesday, a new silicon producer came out of stealth mode, winning MIT's Ignite Clean Energy '07 Business Presentation Competition. Reaction Sciences, Inc (RSI) Silicon would cut production cost to a third, plant costs to 1/10 and plant build time by 1/2. "Most Silicon plants make electronic grade '8 Nines' (99.999999%) purity needed for semiconductors, using the Siemens process. A National Renewable Energy Laboratory study found that solar Silicon purity only needs to be six nines (99.9999% pure), with emphasis on Boron, Phosphorus, and select metals. RSI has created a new proprietary process that makes only solar-grade silicon of six nines purity, without needing all the costly equipment and tri-chlorosilane gases used with metallurgical Silicon feedstock.""

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