HP has just joined Google (although on a smaller scale) on the solar power bandwagon. Both companies are turning  corporate campuses into 1-megawatt + solar power installations, saving money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions — which is appropriate considering each consumes massive amounts of electricity during the ordinary course of business.
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The Aptera Typ-1, which looks sort of like a Cessna without the wings, is a hybrid gasoline electric vehicle that its makers claim gets 300 miles to the gallon. It has a tricycle design that gets listed as a motorcycle when you register with the department of motor vehicles, apparently. I’d like to see the [...]

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I’m amazed to realize that we don’t see more of such simple solutions as solar trough power, which essentially involves setting up a back-yard scale set of parabolic troughs which use focused sunlight to heat liquid that spins a turbine and generates power. At present these are simple and effective for generating small quantities of [...]

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Penn State researchers are claiming 68% efficiency with fuel cells that generate hydrogen from cellulose. Or more importantly, more energy is released from biomass in the system than is expended assembling the system in the first place (which apparently isn’t always the case with biofuels).

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I’d like this one a lot better if the US Department of Defense weren’t promoting this power generation solution as useful for supporting troops in, or rather near, combat zones….
Scientists are saying that within 40-some years the cost of launching gear into space will have dropped enough for it to be feasible to build giant [...]

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A company called Living Power System has developed a process whereby electricity — at this stage, enough to run relatively low-power devices like LED lights — is generated from soil. In sort of a living fuel cell, microbes growing across an electrode planted in the earth generate an electron flow as they metabolize nutrients in [...]

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