Image via Wikipedia Can electricity be drawn from thin air? The idea has been around for more than a century as observers have noted lightning and its formation around clouds. Nikola Tesla dreamed of harnessing this energy so that mankind could freely use electricity without regard to their mundane sources of energy and capital. Tesla, [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Tesla Would Be Proud – Capturing Electricity From Thin Air
August 30th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Fuel Alternatives 
Tags: alternative cars, Alternative energy, Electric charge, Electricity, Energy, Energy development, Fernando Galembeck, Lightning, Nikola Tesla 
Comments OffHydrogen Fuel Cell Cars Coming Sooner Than Expected
August 27th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Image via Wikipedia Hyundai has promised to deliver a production hydrogen fuel cell car (probably an SUV) by 2012, three years before Toyota, Honda, or any of the others. They’ve also said they’ll match or beat Toyota’s planned $50,000 price tag for the HFC vehicle (no other automaker has talked price). Those are big words, [...]
Posted in Alternative Vehicles, Fuel Alternatives Tags: Alternative fuel, Automobile, Fuel cell, Hydrogen, Hydrogen vehicle Comments OffSuper-Efficient, 3-wheeled Motor Home
August 25th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Designed for one person, the 3-wheeled Buffalino is based on the Piaggio APE 50 3-wheeled delivery scooter. It’s a design concept only, created by Cornelius Comanns, but the German industrial designer thinks it’s perfect for a certain niche market of campers and travelers. The tiny package has everything you can expect from an enclosed camper. [...]
Researchers Developing Direct Urea Fuel Cell
August 25th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Image via Wikipedia It might seem unusual, but the idea of running a fuel cell from urea (the primary solid in urine) is not new. It’s been around for a while, but has never been made commercially feasible. Two scientists in the UK think they might have something to say about that. Dr. Shanwen Tao [...]
Posted in Alternative Vehicles, Fuel Alternatives, Others Tags: Fuel cell, Heriot-Watt University, Urea, Urine 1 Comment »Microalgal Biofuels by 2020?
August 23rd, 2010 Aaron Turpen Image by Getty Images via @daylife Two researchers from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, say that with recent advances in systems biology, genetic engineering, and biorefining, microalgae could be produced on an industrial scale for fuel production within 10-15 years. Rene H. Wijffels and Maria J. Barbosa penned a perspective in the August 13th [...]
Posted in Fuel Alternatives Tags: algae, algal fuel, biodiesel, Biofuel, fuel alternatives Comments Off
