Earthships prefer vertical axis for durability.
When you have a windmill running 24x7x365 propeller models break, verticals don't as the bottom-line of why they prefer them. This video is part 2 on how they do electrical system where Mike talks...
View ArticleCreative Energy
Once again, by unleashing the power of creativity, private enterprise demonstrates that innovation is going to be the key factor in solving the difficult issue of climate change. It will take time, and...
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Paging Nikola Tesla, please pick up the white courtesy phone ! It only took 105 years eh? LOL - MD
View ArticleInefficient energy transmission
I studied Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and we allready had miniature planes powered by Telecommunication radio waves in the air. The idea is old like hell (refering also to Tesla...
View ArticleOOps
Of course you DECREASE telecommunication capabilities. Sorry for the typo... - camarco
View Articleenergy theft
The radio wave tech sounds like energy theft to me, it prevents the signal from traveling further... Unless you really know what you're doing... - Space
View ArticleThermoelectric effect & Peltier cooler
Thermoelectric effect to cool computers is not a new idea- look up Peltier-effect. Intel is just incorporating it into their chips. - Sayan
View ArticleCombination
One of the factors any fleet should consider along with the PHESB would be the plate technology being demonstrated at the port (I can't remember which one) to help offset the cost of the charges. - Al
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The buses would also be an excellent summertime backup power source (and income for schools) meeting the demands during the peak times of power consumption in the summer. I walk by school buses that...
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What's wrong with using the commonly accepted acronym PHEV (Plug-in hybrid Electric Vehicle). You have something against the letter "v", don't you. - drivin98
View ArticleRE the "V" ...
The overall, for me, is "PHEV" -- plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The "SB" / "C" / such is somewhat being playful but also being serious about a need to have understanding of different...
View Articledesign
It looks like the school bus needs a new, more streamlined design as well. Driving a block of wood like that can't help. Keep it yellow though... ;D - james
View Articleretro design and aerodynamics
I like retro design and here is one very nice example. I like the color, but the shape is not environmentally friendly at all, because it is all but aerodynamically optimized. - curt
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Wave power has been explored since the 70s. Potentially beneficial, not particularly cost effective at the moment. That could change. We should pay attention to possible side effects of massive...
View ArticleIs it waves or tides?
I think there's a fundamental difference between them. It should be tide power that the article is discussing. - Hun Boon
View ArticleEcological efffect
Irrespective of whether it's wave or tidal power, we must carefully consider what effect this will have on the marine life around such installations. We never thought about the effect of using oil,...
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I tend to think that we need to used a mixed energy strategy...to avoid binding ourself to one strategy and to minimize impacts. Wind power may effect birds, but pollution from coal may effect them...
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Wave power has been in use for a while. I saw a show on Discovery about a plant that simply uses a large bladder that is compressed as wave crash on to rocky cliffs and the low pressure air spins a...
View Articlewhy not tides?
If waves are being considered, why not tides? i mean, our tides are in the neighbourhood of +/-16feet. Every day, regardless of wind etc. - bill
View ArticleIn-Stream Turbines Wave Of The Future?
I have been doing a great deal of research into this, and I'm convinced that in-stream turbines are the way to go for future power. But I do not think that they are the ONLY way to go. I see a future...
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