Technology
Cutesy AirPod Car Blowing Into Charles De Gaulle Airport
According to an article on wired.com, the AirPod air-powered car could be ferrying passengers between gates at Charles De Gualle Airport in Paris and Schiphol Airport in Stockholm by spring of 2009. Air France is the lucky investor that gets to test these cutesy bubble cars that run on nothing but compressed air.
Motor Development International, [...]
Yo-Yo Energy Diet
Ok, so I normally don’t like to do extremely short posts, they’re not effective insofar as they usually can’t deliver all of the information that I think it’s important to get people. This is an exception.
A designer has developed a yo-yo charger for iPhones. Yes, it’s an actual yo-yo, and yes, it looks awesome. Additionally, [...]
Sustaining the Future with Green Technology
Out of all of the policy decisions made dealing with the issue of climate change and sustainability, there is still inevitably conflict, and solutions are slow to emerge. What’s the solution?
China’s co2 emissions are at 22.9 gigatons compared to 9.8 gigatons in the US. American’s use seven times more co2 per capita than Chinese. A [...]
Emerging technology…who needs it?
So yeah, I know I go on kicks about putting existing green technology into products. It’s sort of one of my “things,” you could say. But seriously, why can’t I get a laptop with a pull start like EVERY CHILD IN NIUE. I mean sure, maybe I could track one down, but usually I like [...]
Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell
While watching sports on TV Saturday, I ran across the above Chevrolet commercial. It made me sit up and take notice. The spot features all of Chevy’s upcoming fuel efficient vehicles, including the new Equinox Fuel Cell. These are already on the road, with 100 Equinox Feul Cell cars having been released in Q3 of [...]
Schwarzenegger Gives Finger To New Mexico Tesla Plant
See here. Tesla Motorcars, makers of my new dream car, planned on building a plant in New Mexico (state plant: yucca) to make their next line of vehicles, a $60k sports sedan. The Governator, upon hearing the news, massively laid the smack down, bequeathing a tax exemption on Tesla to keep the plant in Cali. [...]
Printing Solar Cells
Silicon electronics are made in a method similar to developing a photograph. You have a certain material (a silicon substrate) that you layer with a chemical that reacts to UV light. You shine something like an overhead projection onto the chip and the silicon you want to keep stays while the parts you want gone dissolve. The process is fantastic for our ever-shrinking phones and electronic devices, but the substrate has to be very pure (down to the atom) which is hard to do for something the size of a window. It’s also a time and money consuming [...]
