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Super Kite Wind Turbine

Michael — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:17:01 +0000

Superturbine: Taking wind power to new heights | GDS Publishing.

Combining kite power and wind power, this new contraption could provide a significant amount of clean energy.

GE chief hopes Copenhagen leads to US clean energy (sfgate.com)
Wind Energy Pioneer Answers Your Questions: Dale Vince in Guardian Q&A (treehugger.com)
Eminent Domain Week Continues: On New Ulm and Wind Space (blogs.wsj.com)
Kenyans plan a 300 MW wind and solar power project | Green Business | Reuters (reuters.com)
RES Canada Signs Turbine Framework Agreement for 5 Canadian Projects (newswire.ca)
Md. to buy wind and solar power from 4 projects (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Clipper Liberty Wind Turbine Projects Receive Debt Financing (prweb.com)
Transporting Wind Turbines by Ship (gcaptain.com)
New Wind Turbine Unveiled (prweb.com)
Chinese wind power companies target global markets (sfgate.com)

Little Green Batteries

Michael — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:45:14 +0000

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Paper-thin Batteries Made from Algae | LiveScience.

New biodegradable battery made from cellulose from what is a pest of an algae named Cladophora, an hairlike freshwater plant prevalent throughout the world, could bring innovative uses.

Troublesome green algae serve as coating substrate in record-setting battery (scienceblog.com)
Algae could be used in batteries (ubergizmo.com)
Paper Battery May Power Electronics In Clothing And Packaging Material (innovationtoronto.com)

Gigs in Space

Michael — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:31:43 +0000

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Japan Wants to Power 300,000 Homes With Wireless Energy From Space | Popular Science. Sending a microwave beam down from a satellite, the project will kick off in 2015 and take 30 years to complete. Enough time to figure out how not to fly a plane through the beam, or to keep it on target to the receiver.

Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant (hardware.slashdot.org)
Everything’s Better in Space: Putting aside those massive solar arrays… (sf.curbed.com)
Japan to generate solar power in outer space, then beam it to earth (crunchgear.com)
Super-Tough Solar Panels Could Make Every Road Into a Power Plant [Energy] (gizmodo.com)

Do the Dew

Michael — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:11:39 +0000

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Invention Uses Mountain Dew for Fuel : Gas 2.0.

I’m amazed. Now that’s an alternative fuel!

Mountain Dew Teams With World of Warcraft (shoppingblog.com)
World of Warcraft Mountain Dew Game Fuel, Available in Horde Red & Alliance Blue (laughingsquid.com)
Mountain Dew Used As Engine Fuel (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)