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More and more it occurs to me that there is not one solution to the energy problems that we are faced with, but many smaller solutions working together. Green design or sustainable design fits right into the theme of freely renewable. If we combine all of the resoureces available we will make so much headway into,conscious energy practices, the protection of the environment as well as the preservation of natural resorces. What is sustainable design?
Man, this thing is about as cool as it gets. It's a sailboat that has a special design underneath to allow it to actually be propelled by the very water and waves it floats on. Using the sails in combo with the underwater wave propulsion technology this puppy will cruise along at about 5 knots top speed.
With a maximum speed of five knots, the Suntory will take two to three months to complete a voyage that diesel-powered craft accomplish in just one. But speed is not the point. The voyage aims to prove that wave propulsion can work under real-world conditions, opening up the technology for commercial applications such as cargo shipping. “Oil is a limited power source,” Horie says, “but there is no limit to waves.”
Ken-ichi Horie, the boat's inventor, is a true pioneer in renewable sailing and a Guinness Book of World Record holder:
In 1996 he set the world record for the fastest crossing of the Pacific Ocean in a solar-powered boat. And in 1999, he made a solo trip across the Pacific in a catamaran made from recycled beer barrels.
Now, using the Suntory Mermaid II, built of durable recycled-aluminum alloy, he plans to set another record: "the longest distance traveled by a wave-powered boat".
Read more about this adventure...
Best of luck and keep up the goods, Ken-ichi Horie!
An interesting blog on renewable transportation innovation, the content is updated frequently. A nice daily exercise that gets you thinking about the smaller scale ways we can make a deference. When you stop and think about it there are allot of ways we can improve our energy problems without sacraficing the environment in the process.
Topics are mainly cycling related, which happens to be one of the oldest forms of renewable transportation. Cyclist Unite...Check the link here
Video about plug in Hybids, Check it......
I recently surfed through an interesting article on Popular Mechanics about an air-powered car that might actually make it to the US market by 2009 or 2010.
Here is a snippet from the site:
The CityCAT, already being developed in India (bottom left), will be available for U.S. production in three different four-door styles. But it's the radical dual-energy engine, with a possible 1000-mile range at 96 mph, that could move the Air Car beyond Auto X Prize dreams and into American garages.
The Air Car caused a huge stir when we reported last year that Tata Motors would begin producing it in India. Now the little gas-free ride that could is headed Stateside in a big-time way.
Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) confirmed to PopularMechanics.com on Thursday that it expects to produce the world’s first air-powered car for the United States by late 2009 or early 2010. As the U.S. licensee for Luxembourg-based MDI, which developed the Air Car as a compression-based alternative to the internal combustion engine, ZPM has attained rights to build the first of several modular plants, which are likely to begin manufacturing in the Northeast and grow for regional production around the country, at a clip of up to 10,000 Air Cars per year.
A true solar showdown of portable solar technology. I ran across this information in my research for a transcontinental-Europe trip I am taking along with my long time bredren, Chapman. On this trip we will travel through all countries in continental Europe in a bio diesel van tricked out to power all our gear with mobile solar and wind technologies.
There will be all types of photos, as well as video footage,and audio podcasts on topics ranging from travel,language,cuisine,music,culture,and of course renewable energy. To find out more on this Hip to the Trip The portable solar panels will be used to power our laptops, music equipment, video and audio recording equipment.
So with no further ado...
Not only convinent but renewable. The Freeloader is a cool solar charger for the tech head on the go. Travel size solar charger.
Learn more...Freeloader
Alternative energy meta resource,that gives synopsis of the U.S Energy delima as well as the follies,though they be vast.Also a informative newsletter on a vast array of renewable topics.From the site"The United States currently relies heavily on coal, oil, and natural gas for its energy. Fossil fuels are non-renewable, that is, they draw on finite resources that will eventually dwindle, becoming too expensive or too environmentally damaging to retrieve. In contrast, renewable energy resources-such as wind and solar energy-are constantly replenished and will never run out.
Just what the world needs,a clean energy revolution. Freely Renewable is all about this, so we give Big Ups to google, and here is a little of what they have to say:"At Google, we’re committed to helping build a clean energy future.
(Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal)
