Power To The People
A few energy related links:
Want a safe, cheap hydrogen source for your fuel-cell or conventional internal combustion engine car? How about making your H2 on the go from potato syrup? A tank full of enzymes does the trick.
How about some really cheap hydrogen, from atmospheric CO2 and water? Using old, no-patent technology (pyrolysis) get your H2 from woody plants, suck that naughty greenhouse gas out of the sky, and get free soil conditioner (charcoal) into the bargain.
How to economically power up India's 519,570 villages (over 50% of homes)that are still without electricity? We don' need no steenkin national trunk grid and nuclear power. The answer may lie in renewable, community-based distributed grids, i.e. village scale grids powered from wind, solar, biomass etc.
How about some zero-carbon refrigeration, that any village plumber/welder could knock up? No moving parts, runs for decades, no electricity required, just a source of low grade heat (ie solar etc) for an hour or so a day.
Bikes banned on trains in your city? Import a US$399 Chinese bike that folds into a suitcase. Or wait for the no-doubt more expensive American recumbent that folds into its own trailer.
In other news without links: Renault to release a car for US$2,500; the Mexican compressed-air/fuel hybrid car gets commercial release in Europe.
Want a safe, cheap hydrogen source for your fuel-cell or conventional internal combustion engine car? How about making your H2 on the go from potato syrup? A tank full of enzymes does the trick.
How about some really cheap hydrogen, from atmospheric CO2 and water? Using old, no-patent technology (pyrolysis) get your H2 from woody plants, suck that naughty greenhouse gas out of the sky, and get free soil conditioner (charcoal) into the bargain.
How to economically power up India's 519,570 villages (over 50% of homes)that are still without electricity? We don' need no steenkin national trunk grid and nuclear power. The answer may lie in renewable, community-based distributed grids, i.e. village scale grids powered from wind, solar, biomass etc.
How about some zero-carbon refrigeration, that any village plumber/welder could knock up? No moving parts, runs for decades, no electricity required, just a source of low grade heat (ie solar etc) for an hour or so a day.
Bikes banned on trains in your city? Import a US$399 Chinese bike that folds into a suitcase. Or wait for the no-doubt more expensive American recumbent that folds into its own trailer.
In other news without links: Renault to release a car for US$2,500; the Mexican compressed-air/fuel hybrid car gets commercial release in Europe.