Archive for the Start Ups Category
Making Gasoline from the Sun
Sundrop Fuels believes it can combine wood chips with sun power to make gasoline and diesel fuel. Wayne Simmons is CEO of Sundrop Fuels Inc. The company has built a 60-foot tower with nearly 3,000 mirrors at its base to reflect the sun’s heat into a reactor that vaporizes biomass. A
EEStor Technology: The End of Batteries?
(NaturalNews) For decades, battery storage technology has been a heavy weight on the back of scientific innovation. From cell phones to electric vehicles, our technological capabilities always seem to be several steps ahead of our ability to power them. Several promising new technologies are current
Voltree Power: Wireless sensors draw energy from trees
One freezing day in February 2006, physicist Andreas Mershin huddled with others around a tree on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus to watch an unlikely demonstration. An engineering company claimed it could produce electricity simply by wiring a nail in the tree’s trunk to a metal
Windbelt Micro-wind, 10 Times Cheaper Wind Energy!!
[Run time: 2:05 min] I hope you enjoy this short video of Shawn Frayne, a young inventor that has created this device to generate, on the micro-scale, energy for LED lights and radios in developing countries. This is the first approach that uses aeroelastic flutter to create super cheap elec
New Solar Balloon Creates 400 Times More Energy Than The Average Solar Cell
There are many new forms of alternative energy but maybe none as interesting as the Cool Earth Solar “Balloon.” The concept behind this design is that they create an “inflatable plastic thin-film balloon (solar concentrator) that, upon inflation, focuses sunlight onto a photovoltaic cell held
Rumors: Tesla Maybe Strapped For Cash
Photo by Brian Solis, (www.briansolis.com and bub.blicio.us) According to a tipster, who told another Tipster, who heard it from their cousin, who overheard it from their dentist, who has a patient who talked to the ghost of Elvis... Okay, truth be told, we heard it from Left Lane News who
SUNRGI Bringing Us the Most Competitively Priced Solar Power Yet
For proponents of alternative energy, new patents for the XCPV (Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics) system, created by solar energy pioneers SUNRGI, will be a shiny new possibility. Thanks to the momentum of new technology, the petite solar cells in this system accumulate energy that’s 1,600 ti
Green Auto Startup Shows Off Hydrogen-Powered “Scorpion”
The race to get green cars to market continues to heat up. Today brought details of the Scorpion, an “eco-exotic” sports car with an on-board hydrogen generator made by Ronn Motor Co. The Austin, Texas-based company says it hopes to have the first production Scorpion, which will cost $150,000, o
