According to FUEL producer Rebecca Harrell, “Powering our cars with algae-based fuel could be the next Apollo mission.” Rebecca Harrell is the co-founder of the Veggie Van Organization and producer of the upcoming film FUEL. In the coming 10 days she’ll be accompanying the Fuel director and Veggie Van Organization cofounder Josh Tickell. Together they will take the Algaeus on a countrywide road trip. The duo’s other travel companions will be other green energy vehicles (including the Veggie Van and the biodiesel-powered big green energy bus), “It hit us that we needed to drive the car across the country,” Harrell said. “People think of algae fuel as this long-term, far off thing. But seeing is believing.”

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The chargers (pictured here) allow full access to the device while having their own LED status indicator so you know just how much power is left.  There are also many color choices to choose from.

For those that spend a lot of time outdoors, these eco-friendly chargers should be put at the top of your list for must-have accessories for your gadget.

The implications of this iPhone charger are amazing, with the probability that in a few years, all electronic devices could have a solar charger feature added onto them.

Want to see more?  Head over to Novothink

The Battery-free Wind Up Universal Remote

protect the environment by not having to buy or throw away batteries again.


According to DEFRA, 700 million batteries end up in UK landfills annually, (imagine what America uses!)  And most contain heavy metals, which are the main cause for environmental concern. When disposed of incorrectly, these heavy metals may leak into the ground when the battery casing corrodes. This can contribute to soil and water pollution and endanger wildlife – even household batteries can pose an environmental risk.


The wind up remote control unit works on infrared and needs no batteries – making your TV watching more eco friendly.


The instructions are easy to follow, and the unit is guaranteed for a year, but it is very well made and should last for many years to come!


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The new clean energy spy plane - coming to a store near you.

Although the U.S. military has several variations of airplane drones running on various alternative fuel sources, it’s not something the average person, or even company, can go out and buy.


But that could all change now.


BlueBird Aero Systems and Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies recently announced that they have co-developed the Boomerang, the “world’s first commercial fuel cell Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).”


So far the Boomerang only has flight approval for Israel, but it’s about to be unveiled at next week’s Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference in Washington, D.C., which could give it much more attention with politicians and military higher-ups there.


The plane contains a 2kg hydrogen fuel cell power pack called the Aeropak made by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies. The company claims it can provide 900Wh (Watt-hours) of power allowing the Boomerang to fly for over nine hours straight. In addition to supporting flight, the power pack can also support ancillary devices like electro-optical sensors, infrared cameras, and laser designators.


Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is the same company that developed the power packs for the Hyfish fuel cell-powered “flying car” as well as a wide assortment of fuel cells for remote control cars and educational products.


So maybe the next time you want to do some aerial surveillance with an unmanned clean energy drone, consider buying one of these new Boomerangs.

The Schweeb: First Human powered monorail

The Schweeb is the world’s first human powered monorail. It is an attempt at a futuristic eco-friendly transportation vehicle and is the first of its kind. These pedal powered pods resemble a recumbent bicycle but ride much more rapidly and require only fifty percent of the energy necessary to power a racing bicycle. Currently the Schweeb is only used at the Scheeb campus in New Zealand as a racing vehicle and attraction. But be prepared because the Schweeb could be pedaling to a city near you soon!


News Source: Huffington Post |  Barbara Fenig

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This I know from personal experience: Building a stick-built home – a home built of wood onsite – is not a resource-efficient process. I’ve helped build houses from scratch: been there, done that.


Bad weather, days of rain, snow or even excessive heat can slow construction or stop crews altogether. Human resources can sit idle waiting for weather to improve.


Stick building means cutting most parts onsite: Piles of waste wood, drywall, roofing, and packaging ma

Example of a Modular Home

terials end up thrown in a landfill: a waste of resources, natural and man-made.


However, homes built indoors in the controlled climate of a factory, and shipped to a site, eliminate much if not all of the wasted time and resources of stick built homes. And, modular or prefabricated factory-built homes can be built better too. In a controlled situation, parts such as studs and joists can be cut to great precision and fastened together with the help of tools, jigs and fixtures not available on a job site. Since they have to be built strong enough to be transported over roads, modular homes can be stronger as well.


Now the efficiencies of building homes in a factory are combining with energy efficiency and renewable energy.


Epoch Homes of Pembroke, New Hampshire offers its line of Eco Collection prefab homes that incorporate efficient building structure and systems to comply with Energy Star (R), a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and International Code Council 2009, National Green Building Standard (ICC-700), Silver Level.


And Epoch Homes is not alone in the prefab, modular, green home business.


Literally taking modular green homes to the road, All American Homes of Elkhart, Indiana has recently completed construction of the Living Zero Home for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) “Living Zero Home Tour” that will travel the country and make 17 stops, including NASCAR races, from now until late fall.


The Living Zero Home features:


— Icynene (R) foam insulation in 2 X 6 exterior walls that can reduce heating and cooling bills by as much as 50 percent;
— Solar panels for electricity;
— Low flow plumbing fixtures to cut water usage and save the energy needed to heat it;
— ENERGY STAR light fixtures with compact fluorescent or LED lights;
— ENERGY STAR-rated appliances;
— Tank less water heaters;
— Bamboo floors;
— High-performance fiberglass windows;
— Zero energy use day lighting systems, and;
— Fiber cement siding.


The home will also feature an all new, whole house, high-tech energy management and home monitoring system called the Smart Living System(tm). This feature, soon to be available in every All American home, is designed to save money on utility bills while keeping homeowners more comfortable. It will also alert homeowners to potential problems like water pipe leaks with an automatic phone call when a leak is detected.


Those who want to dream of the possibilities in green, solar homes should take a trip to the Nation’s Capital this October. There, anchored on the National Mall, will be 20 self-sufficient solar homes in the Solar Decathlon that were designed and built by teams from the U.S., Canada, Spain, Puerto Rico and Germany.


Those homes, though not in production (but could be), were built modular for shipping to Washington. The Solar Decathlon is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy with help from industry.


News Article Source: Green Energy News

Tesla was onto something after all...

by Bruce Muliiken, Green Energy News

Imagine ordinary cars that had no wiring harness. Imagine homes that didn’t have a network of wires buried in the walls. Imagine electric vehicles whose batteries could be charged without plugging in.

Stop imagining. Start thinking about implementing and commercializing wireless electricity into our buildings, our vehicles and with every electronic and electrically powered device we own. It looks as though (though, no guarantees) that inventor/engineer/scientist Nikola Tesla’s dream of transmitting power through thin air is here. (But not quite as he imagined it.)

Watertown, Massachusetts-based WiTricity notes in an interview on BBC that its technology of transmitting power by way by of resonant magnetic coupling could begin showing up in commercial products in as little as a year. The company in its website describes resonant magnetic coupling: ”Magnetic coupling occurs when two objects exchange energy through their varying or oscillating magnetic fields. Resonant coupling occurs when the natural frequencies of the two objects are approximately the same.”

The company has developed its proprietary magnetic coupling technology to the point where energy can be transferred from as little as a few centimeters to as far as several meters.

WiTricity dreams of many applications for its technology:

— Small battery powered devices, cell phones, music players, cameras and the like, could be recharged without plugging in. Magnetic resonance sources could be recharging these devices as soon as they were in range.

— Larger electronics, like flat screen TVs, could be wall mounted without dangling wires or the need for custom hidden wiring. A magnetic resonator source in the room would supply power to a magnetic resonance receiver inside.

— Wireless and batteryless desktop computer peripherals such as mice, keyboards and speakers would be possible with one souce powering all the devices.

— In the industrial scene, think wireless industrial robots, cordless tools, and automated guide vehicles all powered from nearby or centralized magnetic power sources.

— The technology used in cars would mean the elimination of most of a vehicle’s wiring harness. The magnetic source could power lights, power windows, wipers, etc without the need for connecting wires.

— And battery powered vehicles too could benefit. No need to plug in. Park over a magnetic source and wait: no physical connection between and the power source and the vehicle’s battery pack.

News Source: Green Energy News

For millions of New Jersey residents, solar power is coming soon to their neighborhoods – even to the utility poles in their backyards.


In a move both bold and expensive, state regulators today approved a plan for Public Service Electric & Gas Co., the state’s largest utility, to install solar panels on 200,000 utility poles in its service territory.


The project will make New Jersey the nation’s second-most solar-fueled state, according to the state Board of Public Utilities, trailing only California.


News Source: www.Philly.com/

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