Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Solar Heat Engine to be 60% Efficient
One of the most surprising things about this new invention is that it was (in a roundabout way) inspired by the SuperSoaker. Lonnie Johnson, the man who made “squirt gun” synonymous with inadequacy, is currently working on a prototype heat engine which would use heat from the sun to force hydrogen ions through a molecular [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Google Lays Out the Big Bucks for Renewable Energy
In late November, Google announced that it plans to spend somewhere in the tens of millions of dollars to support the development of renewable energy infrastructure in 2008 and hundreds of millions in the near future. Their plan is to spur the development of high-altitude wind generation (a technology as yet untested), solar thermal electricity [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Germany Mandates Heating New Homes with Renewable Energy. Why Haven’t We Thought of That?
The Renewable Energies Heating Law just passed in Germany requires all new homes built after January 1st, 2009 to provide 14% of their heating and hot water energy with renewable sources. The German government is promising $517 million dollars a year in grants to help make this happen. Then, starting in 2010, existing homes will [...]
