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Chevy Volt Prototype

Nerd Grind — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:53:23 +0000

Meet GM’s slapped together Chevy Volt hydrogen prototype. It is live for all to see at this year’s 2008 CES. Check the gallery at Engadget.

Hydrogen Powered Bike

Nerd Grind — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:15:44 +0000

The Valeswood Pearl hydrogen-fueled, power-assisted bicycle, which does up to 15 MPH and takes you about 80 miles before you need to juice the batteries is the latest in personal transport. Plus when you are all done with it, it folds up and can be stashed in the trunk of your car.

The $4000 price tag though, might make you stop and calculate the price of gasolne and how many gallons you can get for 4 grand.

Hydrogen Fusion 999 at 207.297

Nerd Grind — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:17:10 +0000

Ford is now the "world’s first automaker to set a land speed record for a production-based fuel cell powered car."

The Place: Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover UT
The Date: August 15 2007
The Skinny: retired Ford employee Rick Byrnes cranked that Hydrogen Fusion 999 to a speed of 207.297 mph which now becomes the benchmark for fuel cell powered vehicles.

Hydrogen Cars on the Horizon

Nerd Grind — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:05:22 +0000

Ford announced that it could be on the verge of producing hydrogen cars into the market within the next 5 years if things go right.Â They’ve been using 12 passenger shuttle buses powered by internal combustion hydrogen engines and it’s been the closet they’ve been to a mass production.

We really believe this technology is ready to be evaluated at the consumer level

They’ve been monitoring the buses across the United States, harping on the zero emissions and the greater fuel economy.Â Go green earth!

Ford Hopes to Hit 200MPH With Fuel Cell Fusion

Nerd Grind — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:00:56 +0000

Talk about a proof of concept. Ford hopes to break the land speed record for hydrogen-powered fuel cell autos with its Fusion 999. It’s not a practical model, being cooled with what I’m guessing is rather impractical technology, but Ford’s hoping this baby will hit 200MPH. Makes me a lot more willing to consider giving up my gas-powered sports sedan.

Real JetPacks You can Buy Today

Nerd Grind — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:56:41 +0000

Real JetPacks are for sale right now. Popular Mechanic has revealed their tests of JetPacks in their July issue. The Tam Rocket Belt costs $250k, flies for 30 seconds and has a top speed of over 60mph. The JetPack H202 goes 70 mph, flies 33 seconds and is a bargain at $155k. Both weigh over 100 pounds, include lessons with the purchase price and are powered by hydrogen peroxide. Keep the H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) away from your skin.

Next year, Jet Pack International will release a model with 19 minutes of flight that runs on Jet-A fuel.

Jet Packs Finally On Sale: How to Buy Your Rocket Belt [Popular Mechanics]

SuperBugs!!

Nerd Grind — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:49:56 +0000

A device that mimics the naturally disinfecting quality of fresh air could be used to purge hospital wards of superbugs, its makers claim.

The Air Disinfector, launched in London, UK, on 19 June pumps a continual stream of reactive hydrogen radicals into the atmosphere, killing microbes within minutes.

"The same results could be obtained simply by opening all the windows of hospital wards, but that’s not practical," says David Macdonald, co-inventor of the device and chief scientific officer of Inov8 Science, which developed it.

Macdonald and co-inventor Derek Elwood identified the so-called open-air factor phenomenon more than 15 years ago through experiments at the UK governmentâ€™s chemical and biological defence labs at Porton Down in Wiltshire. They established that outdoors, microbes are killed by hydroxyl radicals, highly reactive agents constantly produced through natural reactions between airborne ozone and organic scented chemicals from plants such as pine trees.

Info from New Scientist

Aluminum foil the new DuckTape?

Nerd Grind — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:26:06 +0000

A low energy light bulb is always appreciated. Yet, as a certain show on the Discovery Channel (MythBusters) pointed out the conventional light bulb still did fairly well on the energy scale as opposed to the "energy saving" ones. Now, Imagine this, a low energy light bulb that can hang on your wall like a picture frame?

You’ve seen these before right? At the mall with all sorts of relaxing water sounds and pictures? Ha, no that’s not it. It’s actually aluminum foil made to act like a lightÂ bulb,Â by a neat process (see below). Not only that, it can be mounted onto curved spaces and even take on different hues depending on the gas.

So are you tired of your conventional, Stone Age lamps yet? If you are, just reach in your ‘fridge for the nearest used foil, nail it to your wall, infuse some hydrogen, get some electricity flowing through that sucker and viola! Well….That’s not totally true, you better just wait for the product to come out.

New York taxis to be hybrids by 2012

Nerd Grind — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:45:43 +0000

It wasn’t too long ago that next-generation taxis were being demoed at the NY International Automobile Show, but unless those roadsters sport gas sipping hybrid engines, they won’t survive past 2012 in the Big Apple. Reportedly, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered that every last one of NY’s taxis operate on hybrid engines by 2012 as a part of an obvious plan to reduce emissions in the state. Once the transition is complete, Bloomberg noted that it would be the "largest, cleanest fleet of taxis anywhere on the planet," but considering that only 375 of the approximate 13,000 licensed taxis are currently in compliance, we’d say they’ve got a long ways to go. Currently, NYC has approved nine gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles for use as taxis, and while it has yet to be set in stone, officials are purportedly looking into extending the hybrid initiative to encompass garbage trucks and buses.

New York may look like they are leading the green public transportation revolution, but Los Angeles has had hydrogen only buses for years now.

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