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Hydrophilic H2O Shower Radio is designed for the shower

Shane McGlaun, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you can’t wake up in the morning without a nice hot shower and some tunes, a new radio will let you combine those two necessities in one device that won't fry when it gets wet. The gadget is called the H2O Shower Powered Radio and the thing is more than just a waterproof radio. It gets all the power it needs to operate directly from the water flow in your shower. Read The Full Story

FPL opens world’s first hybrid solar energy center in Florida

Shane McGlaun, Mar 7th 2011 Discuss [2]

Florida Power & Light Company has announced that it has created the world's first hybrid solar energy center. The plant is called the FPL Martin Next Generation Solar Facility. The plant sits on 500 acres in Western Martin County in Florida and has a field of over 190,000 solar thermal mirrors. Read The Full Story

TI Automotive demonstrates new plastic fuel tank for green hybrids

Shane McGlaun, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [1]

Green cars are very popular on the market today with fuel prices soaring and the hefty rebates the government is offering on electric and hybrid vehicles. One of the keys to getting hybrids that have better fuel economy is to reduce the weight of the vehicle as much as possible. The less weight the vehicle has to cart around, the less fuel it needs. Read The Full Story

Bloom Energy Server – Tiny Box Can Power Entire Home

Samia Perkins, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [9]

Bloom Energy makes Solid Oxide Fuel Cells that are able to power an entire home, and fit in the palm of your hand. These fuel cells have been used by Google and eBay to provide part of the power used on their campuses. The company's CEO, KR Sridhar, originally created technology that was meant to produce oxygen so that people could live on Mars. When NASA scrapped that project, he reversed the technology so that it pulled in Oxygen instead of pushing it out. Read The Full Story

Yill is a green rolling office with its own power

Shane McGlaun, Feb 28th 2011 Discuss [1]

If you are the busy filed worker sort that needs to be able to work wherever you might be power is probably your biggest issue. Your computer and other gear need power to operate and many devices last only a few hours on a charge before you need to plug in. Read The Full Story

GSLO volt solar charger for iPhone enters mass production

Shane McGlaun, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [1]

We have talked a lot about the GSLO Volt solar charging battery case for the iPhone 4 over the last few months. Earlier this month I mentioned that the company had filed a patent application to protect the technology in the charger as it readied the things for market. Read The Full Story

Fisker To Finally Start Production Of Luxury Hybrid Karma

Rue Liu, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Green-promoting Hollywood celebs, such as Leonardo Di Caprio, can soon ditch their Priuses for the Karma. After several delays having to do with financing and logistics, the electric car startup company Fisker has finally confirmed production for the Karma, a luxury plug-in hybrid sports car. The Karma is set to start production on March 21st, and the target price tag for the vehicle should be $95,900. Read The Full Story

Plastic Bags into Fuel via Carbon-Negative Device

Chris Burns, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Welcome to the modern consumer landscape, one where our everyday environment is literally littered with plastic bags. We cannot escape them, we cannot stop using them. What's to be done? An inventor in Japan by the name of Akinori Ito has offered up an invention that takes these bags and turns them into fuel. How could this possibly be done? Consider the makeup of the bags: oil and ink. Is it possible to revert these bags back down to their elements, elements that can be reused for all manner of fuel-sucking machines. Read The Full Story

Two Germans Drive Across Southern Australia In Wind-Powered Electric Car

Rue Liu, Feb 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

Hybrids and full electric cars have been the rage in the automotive industry for the past few years and hydrogen fueled cars are picking up momentum as well. The next “green” technology in automobiles could be wind-power. Two German adventurers have created the “Wind Explorer” and drove the wind-powered electric car across Australia’s southern coast. Read The Full Story

Nextreme Thermobility solution turns heat into power for mobile devices

Shane McGlaun, Feb 18th 2011 Discuss [3]

A company called Nextreme has a really interesting mobile wireless power generation system that might one day find its way into the gadgets we all know and love. The solution is called Thermobility and it reminds me a bit of a CPU cooler from the inside of a computer. Read The Full Story

Ford replaces 50K light fixtures to go green and save money

Shane McGlaun, Feb 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

Ford has a bunch of different properties in Dearborn, Michigan where it does much of the work for its line of vehicles. Ford Land Energy Efficiency and Supply Office has announced that it will be changing out 50,000 light fixtures in its facilities in Dearborn to eliminate a massive amount of CO2 emission and save big money. Read The Full Story

GLSO files patent app for sweet iPhone Volt Solar Charger

Shane McGlaun, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [3]

I mentioned back at the beginning of the month that GSLO had received its first test shipments of the Volt Solar Charger. GLSO has one of the only solar panel packing iPhone 4 cases on the market and the thing will be hitting stores before you know it. GSLO has announced that it has filed a patent app for the Volt Solar Charger. Read The Full Story