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Submission + - Cheap 3D Solar Cell 6x More Efficient, Works Under (treehugger.com)

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MikeCapone

on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @03:22PM

MikeCapone writes: "Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world's first 3-D photovoltaic solar system that actually works underground. The result is up to six times more efficient than planar zinc oxide cells with the same surface area."

Submission + - 7 Electric Vehicles Built Before the 1900s (gas2.org) 1

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Jaymi

on Sunday September 27, 2009 @11:45PM

Jaymi writes: "One might be surprised that the EV dates all the way back to the 1800s. In fact, in its heyday, there were 4,192 cars made in the U.S. and 28-percent of them were electric! Here are some defining moments from New York Cityâ(TM)s first fleet of electric taxis to setting the very first land speed record."

Submission + - Man Builds 100 MPG Lotus Replica that Runs on Home (treehugger.com)

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jerryjamesstone

on Friday September 25, 2009 @02:06PM

jerryjamesstone writes: "Guy built this Lotus replica that he runs on homebrewed biodiesel. It was to race in the X Prize race but sadly, MAX has been withdrawn from the Automotive X Prize because it was too expensive to make it meet the new rules."

Submission + - Mud-Loving Bacteria Increases Fuel Cell Output by (gas2.org)

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jerryjamesstone

on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @09:04AM

jerryjamesstone writes: "Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst evolved a new strain of the Geobacter microbe that increases power output per cell by 800%. The hairy mud-loving microbe uses its hairlike filamentsâ"called piliâ"to produce an electric current from both mud and waste water. The pili are only 5 nanometers in diameter (20,000 times smaller than a human hair); theyâ(TM)re also a thousand times longer than they are wide."

Comment Re:Googles problem will be their increasing size (Score 1) 156

by MikeCapone on Friday April 28, 2006 @01:27AM (#15218846) Attached to: How Google's Novel Management System Aids Growth

Taken strictly in business terms, making money is the only measure that counts.

Sure, but that's not what we're doing, are we?

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