Source: andrewdaum.com
Having just purchased a new Ford Hybrid, this sort of stuff interest me. I am not a tree hugger or do I buy into global warming due to emissions, I am interested in this sort of stuff from a purely selfish financial standpoint.
Source: spiritofmaat.com
Okay, read through this and tell me if any of it is true. Meanwhile, I'll be pumping water into the ol' tank.
Source: Engadget
Today's interview is a first for Engadget in a couple ways: we've never talked with an executive whose company doesn't actually make or sell something, nor have we talked with anyone whose technology is theoretically infeasible.
Source: Seeking Alpha
With the recent rise in interest in alternative energy technologies and other breakthrough clean technologies has come the inevitable rise in questionable business ideas promising unbelievable benefits: "free" energy, "free" electricity, etc.
Source: BBC News
Irish company Steorn is still deluding itself that magnets arranged to repel each other is a form of free energy. Steorn can't quite grasp that upon each revolution a net energy gain would increase the speed of each rotation.
Source: TreeHugger
Forcing your PC to pull another pointless all-nighter isn't just polluting, it's also a waste of money. Make that a lot of money. Nearly half of all corporate computers in the United States don't get turned off at night, costing U.S.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Yeah, yeah, yeah...so much for changing the world. This Irish company has gone to a lot of trouble to stage a demonstration of some specially arranged magnets supposedly demonstrating a COP > 1 (much greater in fact).
Source: RTÉ News
Steorn claims its Orbo device uses the interaction of magnetic fields to generate a constant source of free and clean energy. If true, the technology would defy the laws of physics. ORBO be seen LIVE at the Kinetica Museum in London's Spitalfields Market starting July 5th
Source: steorn.com
This Friday they are supposed to have an update on jury criteria/selection for this. I know I'm curious.
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Once again, society is stumbling upon something amazing that Nikola Tesla proposed decades ago. This time, it's the seemingly far-out notion that cosmic rays could be harnessed for terrestrial energy uses.
Source: Scotsman.com News
IT IS a mechanical problem that has troubled scientists since Archimedes and the ancient Greeks, but now a Scottish electrician has come up with the answer - and it could help consumers save thousands of pounds in energy bills.
Source: Wired News
Sean McCarthy believes his small Irish high-tech company has overturned one of physics' most fundamental laws: the first law of thermodynamics.