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A Car With No Emissions – The MDI Air Car.
While they are not for sale yet (that I know of), I don’t think it will be long before the world will start seeing the MDI OneFlowAIR or MiniFlowAIR’s on the road everywhere. After all, who wouldn’t love a car that runs only on air? No petroleum, no alternative fuels, no batteries – [...]
9Dec2009 | David Quilty | Comments | Continued
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 09 December, 2009
Electric VW Golf MK VII; Buses Bring Silence to the Streets; Solar Powered Racing Car; DOE offers $100 million; Recharging EVs with Wind
VW Golf MK VII could get electricified The new MK VI Golf has only just gone on sale here in North America but VW engineers are already hard at work on the [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 08 December, 2009
Hand Crank Twinkle Lights; Drive for geothermal power heats up; Oregon Wave Project; Fisker Karma Launch in 2010; Solar Powered Shoes
Hand Crank Twinkle Lights The folks behind Yanko Design are always thinking, and lately their thoughts are stuck on solar and renewable energy gadgets. The latest design, a hand-crank, “Eco-Twinkle Light” takes the idea of [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 07 December, 2009
Prius one of Top 10 Innovations; Wind Turbines Have No Significant Impact on Property; Electric Cars Without a Gas Tax Hike; Philadelphia shows it pays to recycle; Green Car of Year Is a Diesel Again
Prius one of Top 10 Innovations of the Decade Ever since its U.S. introduction in 2000, the fuel-sipper has come to [...]
iPhone App Measures Wind Speed, Estimates Savings From Wind Power
Wondering whether your back yard or office park can accommodate a wind turbine? Now there’s an app for that. Mariah Power, developer and marketer of the Windspire wind turbine for consumers and businesses, today announced the availability of the “Windspire Me” iPhone app. Intended to get people excited about wind as an [...]
4Dec2009 | David Quilty | Comments | Continued
The Daily Five: Friday, 04 December, 2009
Cheapest Car to Go Hybrid; Google to Move Into Clean Energy; CMT-380 plug-in diesel hybrid supercar; Boosting Biofuels; Thermeleon roof tiles
Tata Nano: World’s Cheapest Car to Go Hybrid Not sure if this is at all necessary, but hey – who am I to judge? If all goes according to plan, the ultra-cheap hybrid stands to [...]
4Dec2009 | David Quilty | Comments | Continued
The Daily Five: Thursday, 03 December, 2009
Wind Farms on Great Lakes; Emissions-Free Traffic; Chevy Volt launch; Spin-to-charge cellphone; Nissan Working on New Battery
New York To Build Wind Farms on Great Lakes With the release of a request for proposals (RFP) this week, New York State has launched a search for developers to build wind farms on its neighboring Great Lakes that [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 02 December, 2009
Toyota Hybrid Sports Car; Hydro-Quebec; UKEco 60v Electric Scooter; Solar Powered Knit Hat; Vectrix lives again
Toyota Developing Mid-Engined Hybrid Sports Car Toyota may bring the MR2 back as a hybrid called the MR-S, and would employ a custom version of the Toyota Prius’ hybrid powertrain.
Hydro-Quebec’s Green Power Export Plans Hydro-Quebec’s move last month to boost [...]
Fuel Cell X7 Car Experiment Kit For Kids.
Or adults, really. Probably more educational than an Elmo doll, this fuel cell car experiment kit teaches kids how to assemble a car that runs on water – i.e. a fuel cell. Talk about teaching the future! For ages 10 and up (I guess that includes me as well), “The Fuel Cell [...]
1Dec2009 | David Quilty | Comments | Continued
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 01 December, 2009
Carbon-Neutral Urban Block; Pedal-powered Christmas tree; Best Practices for Connecting Renewables to the Grid; First zero-energy neighborhood; CP Rail tests animal-fat, vegetable-oil biodiesel
Dallas Creating a Carbon-Neutral Urban Block Dallas aims to take a vacant inner-city block behind City Hall and transform it into a carbon-neutral, sustainable community. Dubbed “Forwarding Dallas,” the city block aims to [...]
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