Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
A Stirling Engine … for your motherboard?
Yup, a stirling engine that uses the heat from your mother boards CPU to cool it. All at a 70% efficiency.
This is a weird time for tech, and isn’t the tiny stirling engine cute? The article is here.
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets & Products by GReg
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Cheap Hydrogen Production!
Well here we are again, cheap hydrogen, the holy grail of environmental energy storage. We have the way to use the stuff (fuel cells) and some ways to store it, but now we need to produce it from water.
The problem is it’s not too efficient to split water into the stuff (and oxygen of course). [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Gasoline Out Of Thin Air?
There is a new proposal from two scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for creating gasoline from carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Although all of the idea is not new, some modifications, and the current high price of gasoline make their idea plausible. The downside? It requires a lot of energy.
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