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US based Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, became the first private company to success fully put a payload into orbit. Their liquid fuel rocket, Falcon1 put a payload into orbit from a US military facility on Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll yesterday. It was their fouth try, but if it was easy, everyone would be doing [...]
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Ok, it’s a little thicker, but still way cool. Tiny web server aren’t that new. I remember seeing webservers that fit in a matchbox years ago. The fact that you can etch this board yourself and that it uses a SD card instead of eeprom is slick.
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No embryo required. So say the researchers at Harvard Medical School. They are claiming to have developed a method that will produced stem cells from adults that are “potent” as embryonic stem cells. This method has a benifit over embryonic stem cells. These adult stem cells could be grown from a patients own tissue. This would allow [...]
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Sapphire Energy, a San Diego based startup, has a process they claim can produce 91octane gasoline from “algae microorganisms, salt water, carbon dioxide and the power of the sun.” The interesting twist to their technology is that method doesn’t use a plant that people typically use for food (like corn, sugarcane or sugar beats). So [...]
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Electical solar power at the individual homeowner level is no longer the exclusive realm of the uber-ecowarrior or the Heinlein inspired individualist determined to live “off the grid.” It’s mainstream now. The concrete proof of this has arrived. Solar Power Panel Rustlers! Police departments in California — the biggest market for solar power, with more than [...]
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Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge are working to get electic cars to market. It looks like Chevy is going to beat to the market with the Volt though. These new entries are still “Concept Cars,” so I’m taking their “late 2010″ release date with a chunk of salt. Keep in mind that introducing a lot of [...]
Filed under: alternate fuel cars, Energy, Nuclear Power, solar power | Tagged: electric car, Energy, energy grid, environment | 4 Comments »
The MIT Tech Review has a story about an Atlanta, GA based start up named Suniva. What makes Sunvia’s product interesting is that they have made the manufacturing process cheaper. They are squeezing a little more efficiency out of their cells (20%, which is up from the industry standard of 17%), but the cost reduction [...]
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The MIT Tech Review has a story about a new process for turning plant sugars into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Another interesting aspect of this story that the byproducts of the process can be used to create other industrial chemicals and plastics. This further reduces independence on fossil based oil products. The process under development will [...]
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It looks it could be. 12 year old William Yuan has a project entitled “A Highly-Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UV Light.” The kicker here is that his system harnesses UV light as well as visible light. Current solar cells only work off the visible light. The trick will be finding a partner [...]
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Tesla Motors announced their second model, the Type S. They are following up thier popular roadster model with a sedan. The Type S is planned to sell for about $60,000. That’s half the price of their current Roadster model. The Type is also a purely electric car with a projected range of 200 miles on [...]
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