The U.K. Company Solar Technology recently unveiled a new portable charging system that can power most hand held electronic devices. The multi-charger is called ‘Freeloader’ and supplies power from solar panels, the supplied supercharger, or via a charge cable that ...
The X PRIZE Foundation recently announced they are sponsoring the newly renamed Progressive Automotive X PRIZE International Competition. This $10 million competition is designed to bring about radical breakthroughs by encouraging the design and creation of a new generation of ...
The U.K. Company Lunar Energy and the Korean firm Midland Power have agreed to build a giant 300 turbine power plant in the Wando Hoenggan Water Way, off the South Korean coast. The plant is expected to provide 300 megawatts ...
Tidal power has recently been harnessed to generate electricity. Verdant Power and Pelamis Wave Power are two companies which have developed technologies that can take advantage of the oceans’ kinetic energy in order to create electricity. The companies have already ...
The Morgan Motor Company plans to present a prototype of the “LifeCar” at next month’s Geneva Motor Show. The LifeCar was designed to be an aesthetic, high performance, hydrogen fuel cell, zero emission vehicle. The British motor car manufacturer Morgan ...
The car manufacturer Zero Pollution Motors plans to introduce the six-seater Air Car CityCat to the U.S. market. Developed by Formula One race car engineer Guy Negre, the Air Car is equipped with a revolutionary dual-energy compressed air engine, achieving ...
Andreas Zachariah, a graduate student at the Royal College of Art in London, has developed a new device that may help reduce global warming by raising people’s awareness to their carbon footprint. Named “Carbon Hero”, this device uses satellite navigation ...
In the late 1800’s, the French physicist Jacques Arsene d’Arsonval proposed a method for generating electricity using the sea as a giant solar-energy collector. It is considered that the technology, termed “Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion” (OTEC), may enable the establishment ...
The construction of an experimental ‘green’ power generating structure will soon be completed in Madrid, Spain. The structure, named Air Tree, is designed to benefit both the environment and the city’s residents by generating clean renewable energy, producing oxygen, and ...
Chrysler recently unveiled three concept cars in the 2008 Detroit Motor Show. One of these is the Jeep Renegade concept – a ‘green’ sporty two-seater vehicle constructed out of environmentally friendly materials. The Renegade is equipped with a 40-mile lithium-ion ...