Join Let the Weedoo clean up that BP Oil Spill
If there is one thing I just don’t want to hear about anymore, it is that darn BP oil spill.
I’m getting tired of hearing stats like “150 million gallons and counting” and want to hear more things like “we cleaned up 20 million gallons today” or something. I don’t understand why there aren’t more things like Kevin Costner’s device being implemented. It’s enough to make me want to go down there with an oil-absorbent sponge, and maybe that is what I should be doing.
Of course, I would need a little bit more than just me. Fortunately, there are Greenboat Scientific’s Weedoo workboats. These workboats were originally designed to be green power airboats. They have rechargeable battery-driven propulsion systems, and can maneuver easily through the shallow wetlands. They can also go through the wetlands and swamps that are really getting polluted because of that aforementioned oil spill.
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Energenie kills power to gadgets for you
When it comes to energy conservation there are a whole lot of small gadgets that you can choose from. There are several that do nothing more than let you know just how much energy is being sucked away by leaving the device plugged in all the time. Hey, if it works to motivate you then it’s worth it to have the stats handy. However, if that’s not quite enough for you, this Energenie does a lot of the work for you.
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LED Bulb attempts to replace kerosene lamps
Apparently 1.6 billion people still rely on kerosene lamps to give them light. Which for those people the kerosene is expensive enough to suck up 5% of the family’s income. Plus to make it worse the kerosene gives off noxious cancer-causing fumes. Well Nokero is attempting to help out those dependent on kerosene and is offering an affordable light that relys upon renewable energy to help them save a whole lot of money.
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Ecotek Energy Wizard saves energy
A lot of appliances currently created are a lot more mindful of their energy usage. However, for those of us using old appliances or ones from companies that just don’t care about that sort of thing, there is a bit of hope. The Energy Wizard is intended to make sure that your appliance doesn’t suck up quite so much energy as it normally would. Of course these Ecotek Energy Wizards are only going to help out those with a standard UK 3 pin plug socket.
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Nokia Bike Charger kit
We’re not too sure whether having the Nokia Bike Charger kit is a good thing or not, especially if you are one who just cannot get enough of your phone even when going up and about on two wheels. The Nokia Bike Charger kit is pretty self explanatory – it will juice up your Nokia handset whenever you are cycling, and this won’t add to your monthly power bill since the charger will only get to work when you reach a speed of 6km/h. The kit is equipped with a Nokia Bicycle Charger DC-14, Nokia Phone Holder for Bicycle CR-124, and a Bottle Dynamo. No word on pricing, but at least it gives more incentive to get to work on two wheels instead of four. We’re waiting for an iPhone version to roll out…
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Car-shaped house is unusual, but quite energy-efficient
Okay, just picture having this house in your neighborhood. Chances are, the guy living in it would probably be someone that most would avoid, because he is, after all, living out of his car.
That’s only because must suburbanites are too judgmental. If they really got to know this house, then they would see that it uses a “a ’3 liter’ energy-efficient heating and insulation technique that optimizes all current building technologies, drastically reducing energy consumption.”‘
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Robot Fish could help steer fish schools
The other day, I was watching the news about the oil spill in the Gulf, and I had heard that a pelican had been saved. Apparently, the Pelican went in the spill to catch a fish, but a team managed to clean him off.
My first reaction was: “Man, why did that pelican go into the oil-infested waters for that fish?” Yes, there are more fish in the sea, but then again, it isn’t the pelican’s fault that we polluted his normal fishing waters.
Hopefully, we will make certain that there will be less polluted waters, but right now, research is underway to steer fish away from those infected areas. Professor Maurizio Porfiri of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University is working on that robotic fish that could be able to lead a whole school of fish away from polluted, infected, or otherwise dangerous waters.
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Electric Car to make 16,000 mile trip
Anyone remember when we reported on the electric car that goes 1,000 km on a single charge? Well, there is an electric car from the Racing Green Endurance Team that plans to take their SRZero Electric car 26,000km (16,000 miles).
The SRZero electric car is sponsored by Imperial College London, and the trip it plans to make is down the Pan-American Highway, starting in Northern Alaska and going to Tierra del Fuego on the tip of South America.
As you can see here, the SRZero car is it weighs just 1,433 lbs and has a 363 V8 in the back. Of course, the batteries will make the car weigh more at 2,600 lbs, and they have a 248 mile range at 386 horsepower. I have included a video of it in action that you can see after the jump if you want to know more about its history.
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