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 ...
Worldâs Largest Tidal Power to be Built in Korea
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 ...
New Technologies Generate Energy from Sea Tide
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 oceansâ kinetic energy in order to create electricity. The companies have already ...
Morgan LifeCar
The Morgan Motor Company plans to present a prototype of the âLifeCarâ at next monthâs 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 ...
Driving On Air
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 ...
âCarbon Heroâ to Help Save our Planet
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 peopleâs awareness to their carbon footprint. Named âCarbon Heroâ, this device uses satellite navigation ...
Unlimited Solar Energy from the Ocean?
In the late 1800âs, the French physicist Jacques Arsene dâArsonval proposed a method for generating electricity using the sea as a giant solar-energy collector. It is considered that the technology, termed âOcean Thermal Energy Conversionâ (OTEC), may enable the establishment ...
Air Tree â Creating Energy and Air
The construction of an experimental âgreenâ power generating structure will soon be completed in Madrid, Spain. The structure, named Air Tree, is designed to benefit both the environment and the cityâs residents by generating clean renewable energy, producing oxygen, and ...
Jeep Renegade â Chrysler Goes Green
Chrysler recently unveiled three concept cars in the 2008 Detroit Motor Show. One of these is the Jeep Renegade concept â a âgreenâ sporty two-seater vehicle constructed out of environmentally friendly materials. The Renegade is equipped with a 40-mile lithium-ion ...
The Rise of the Solar Tower
The Australian firm âEnviroMissionâ is developing a large-scale solar tower that, according to the company, will be capable of supplying electricity to 200,000 typical Australian homes. EnviroMission owns the exclusive license to the German-designed Solar Tower technology in Australia. The ...