Turn your house into a Power Plant
New research at MIT has opened the door to a 24 hour energy solution using the sun and solar energy. Plants store their energy in the evening and their is an abundance of energy during the day to allow for overnight storage. The amount of energy falling on the Earth in one hour is equivalent to all of the energy needs of the planet for an entire year. New and efficient ways of splitting hydrogen and oxygen and storing the energy in a fuel cell in... [Read More...]
Why electric cars have stalled
From CNNmoney.com: ### Facing technical challenges and a weak market, many of Silicon Valley’s electric-car startups are changing direction. The Wrightspeed X1, a sports car whose three-second acceleration from 0 to 60 makes it one of the fastest autos in the world, is also super-clean: It’s powered by an electric motor and gets about 170 mpg. Ian Wright, the Burlingame, Calif., entrepreneur who created the X1 several years ago, had planned... [Read More...]
