Eco-Thinker

Graeme Atty, an inventor from Australia, has designed a simple and affordable solution to supplying your home’s energy needs. Just five of these simple looking turbines can power an average home. Since the initial cost is around $700 each, a few thousand dollars for a power station is quite the bargain. The oversupply can be sent back to the grid for a potential profit in certain areas.

A daughter’s asthma inspires a family to design and build an energy efficient, low allergy home.
Found this inspiring story over at Keetsa.com.
Gladwyn deSouza’s family wanted an energy efficient home with allergy free building materials.
Architect David Arkin was consulted and is here explaining some of the many things that were done to the new house; such as recycled glass counters, flame proof cellulose insulation, and solar panels.

RechargeIT.org or Google.org Project was launched to expedite public awareness and commercialization of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and all-electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities that allows the cars’ owners to sell power back to the grid during peak load hours. To fund development, adoption and commercialization, Google.org has awarded $1 million in grants already and announced plans for a $10 million request for proposals (RFP) this summer.

Sun21 the 14-metre (46 feet) catamaran, the first boat to cross the Atlantic on solar power alone, was in fact a commercially available MW-Line Aquabus C60 – which has a 60 passenger rating.

Ok, I know I am going EV crazy here on the posts, but there has been an abnormally refreshing amount of coverage on electric cars, batteries, and electric drive systems as of late.

A lead sales representative from Phoenix Motorcars tells us about the Nanosafe lithium nano titanate battery that powers the Phoenix SUV.

In 2003, AC Propulsions redesigned its rather impractical lead acid battery powered EV called “tzero”, with lithium-ion batteries. 6,800 to be exact. (Much like the Tesla Roadster) Removing the rather impractical and environmentally unfriendly NiMH battery resulted in four times the power and 500 fewer pounds. Tzero can travel 300 miles on a charge and accelerate 0-60 mph in 3.6 seconds.

Water UN Limited has been incorporated to acquire the technology and intellectual property associated with this invention called ambient air technology, also known as ‘the Max Water’.

They plan to develop Dr Whisson’s invention to produce unlimited water using minimal energy and to market this water through license, direct sales, distributor networks or a combination of these.

Lithium-Ion gets an upgrade. Electric vehicles are quickly becoming more accessible and affordable. Altair Technologies is a developer of nanomaterials for alternative energy and has developed a nano titanate battery system called “nanotitanate” which overcomes many disadvantages to the conventional lithium-ion batteries in ways of efficiency, battery life, charge time, and safety.