Boat Tail Truck Economize fuel By 7.5 Percent

A truck that have a tapering protrusion which is mounted on the back end of a truck is about two meters tail ends length has been shown to reduce fuel consumption about 7.5%.It has been verified by road tests conducted by the Dutch PART (Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport) public-private partnership platform.

The installation of a simple bulge on the back of a truck called boat tail aims to improve aerodynamics on the truck.Thus with this reducing of the wind resistance can reduces the engine work when the truck running against the wind.This automatic direct impact on fuel economy.The feasibility of this arrangement is already demonstrated by the wind tunnel experiments and computer simulations by PART.

PART has been exploring various methods to improve gas mileage and fuel cutback. They tried out wind tunnels and modeling and this combination threw up various possibilities to reorganize truck lines.PART prepared a common ground where academicians, road transport manufacturers, transport companies and shippers huddled together to achieve a common goal. The platform focused on reduction of fuel consumption in the road transport industry by improving aerodynamics. Now PART is going for a 20% reduction in fuel consumption by 2020 and hence carbon dioxide emissions in road transport. The same goal is endorsed by the European Union.

But this finding may still require further modification because with the addition the long of the vehicle will be less comfortable in driving.Also the length of the truck every country will have its own rules on highway.

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Novacell Portable Solar Charger,Recharge Eveywhere

Novacell has introduced Novacell Portable Solar Charger that will able provide electric power for recharged your gadget batteries such as iPods,your mobile, video cameras or anything that need eletricity power suitable with device capacity.Novacell Portable Solar Charger is able to literally be put into your pockets because of its small and you can taken anywhere if you need it.

Novacell Portable Solar Charger works by convert the solar energy into electricity and keep it to be use to charge up the device.Now you no longer have to buy batteries or use electric to charge your device. It will pay for itself in less than a year.

Novacell portable solar charger also can use as a portable solar battery so you can use directly to power up your device.

The portable solar charger Novacell only takes about four hours to get fully powered and ready to use. Power up whatever your gadget and then the sunlight will recharge your device and keep the power again for the next duty.

The portable solar charger Novacell can charge the iPod fully just for two complete cycles before it needed to take another charge.

Although the portable solar power has emerged over the last few years,Novacell Portable Solar Charger would be the best option in the need of the portable solar power on value of the charge time or true portability .

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Commercial Flights To Use Biofuels By 2010

Attempts to obtain clean and green energy to save the earth could be done in order to reduce footprints carbon.The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is committed to find a biofuel in 2010 for commercial aviation and will soon be realized.

IATA estimates, airlines that use biofuels can reduce 80 percent of carbon dioxide emissions "in the full carbon life-cycle basis." The same measures will reduce the 600 kilograms (176 pounds) of emissions per flight on Boeing 747-400 aircraft.

The use of biofuels is also very beneficial in saving fuel costs compared with fossil fuel.In addition the airlines could still use a fleet of aircrafts without having to change engines when running with biofuels.

Paul Steele, head of environmental initiatives of IATA, in New Delhi said "IATA is fully concentrate on biofuel for commercial flights, and it will soon be certified" by the end of next year ". With this certification effort is expected to be a major technical to step further in dealing with uncertainty investment of high-quality biofuel use in flight.

With this commitment IATA hopes before the implementation of the international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen next, each state government would implement other policies for the aviation industry to develop technology in the implementation of clean fuels.IATA argues that the policies to raise taxes in the aviation industry by the government will not reduce emissions but would harm economic development in global.Hence the need to encourage is to develope energy alternatives that environmentally friendly to the aviation industry itself.

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Solar Powered Plane Soon Be On Trial

The first solar-powered plane will soon be on trial with the prototype in the water base near Zurich next week, when the weather is appropriate.Its consistent with the Swiss ambition to become the first to fly solar-powered plane around the world.

The solar-powered plane prototype has a smaller size of the actual aircraft, and was first introduced in June when assembled in a hangar. The solar-powered plane prototype is expected to be a successful to fly around the world.Prototype flight test was conducted to test the working of the technology applied in the plane and know the characteristics in the control plane that will fly through the night.

This aircraft using ultralight high-tech and only single seater.The aircraft wings using Wingspan of an Airbus A380 airliner.Solar Impulse staff said that with the slim design and weighs only 1600 kg, or equal to mid-sized car, so just need 3 knots for the first time on air flights.Expected before next december 20,a few airborne hops down the runway at the Dubendorf air base.

Joint founder and chief executive Andre Borschberg said the aircraft was venturing into new flying territory.Compared to its weight and lighter size than the best performing gliders, he said

The prime flight of the plane, planned in Switzerland next year for 36 hours flights non stop.And further will be done by the five stages of flights around the world beginning in 2012.

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Electric Cars Recharge Available In Major UK Supermarkets

The presence of electric cars today intensified by the large automobile manufacturers in the world.This is also supported by the public awareness in protecting the environment to keep green and furthest from the pollution produced by fuel cars.Its proved by the increasing of the electric car sales,particularly hybrids cars sales such as the Toyota Prius that has been ranked first in car sales in japan.

But the existence of electric cars would not be an easy solution if the facilities needed by the electric car itself is not yet available such as charging stations.In England,the green earth programs and to support the existence of electric cars,now in every major supermarket has been installed a network of electric car recharging points outside the stores.So that consumers can recharge the electric car while shopping.Shoppers with Sainsbury's can be free plug in their car while they go shopping.

Electric cars like the Reva G-Wiz generally have a range of about 70 miles on a full battery and can last up to eight hours for charging. But half past one plugged in to the charging station complete enough for the battery to 80%.

The store is billing the network as an 'electric vehicle superhighway', but at the Islington branch they are yet to be used by a customer.

Jack Cunningham as the environmental Affairs Manager said it was beginning, when the network was open.It was the aim of the initiative for serve the existing customers that use electric cars. It is also intended as a promotion for the community to be more concerned with environmentally responsible and become a good habit in the future.He believe that in the long term, this type of technology will be very important, so it's important for us to offer this early stage.

The recharging points is supplied by EDF, whose electricity the supermarket already sells under its Sainsbury's Energy brand.If the step is large enough, the system will be rolled up to other major cities in Britain.

The system is also suitable for manufacture in order to Mayor Boris Johnson's aim of making London the 'electric vehicle capital of Europe'.Mr Johnson said: 'I warmly welcome the arrival of Sainsbury's network... which will put half of all London's population within three miles of a charge point.'

Charge points can now be found at Sainsbury's stores in Beckton, Camden, Chiswick, Cromwell Road, East Dulwich, Greenwich Peninsula, Islington, North Cheam and Sydenham.The Wandsworth and Whitechapel branches will get them later this month.

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The Cross-Wind Bridge Produce Electricity By Self

A creative idea can occur in any form in the search for alternative energy sources that eco friendly.Like about a successful bridge built by the bridge designer Tiago Barros and Jorge Pereira. The brigde called Cross-Wind Bridge, in Lisbon.

The bridge design built in such a way to generate electricity from the wind energy and will light up the brigde in the night with the power generated by the cars that pass below the bridge by the day.With assumption,each car or vehicle passes below the brigde will always increase the speed upto 20% and will produce a large wind energy to optimizing the rotation of the panels.

The cross-wind bridge will role like a multipurpose envelope that will capture the wind energy from a network of 2,188 light-weight rotating panels.The induction power system is very important to exchanges wind power through an electromagnetic band located on each panel. This culminates into a power source which is used to light the bridge by night. This clean and green source of energy will increase the green quotient by 35% because of the punctured membrane utilized in the bridge cladding.Its made from recycled steel from the auto industry.

The length of Cross-Wind Bridge is 40m.The brigde is running southwest / northwest direction over the Segunda circular highway in Lisbon.Cross-Wind Bridge also reconnects and makes accessible the remaining paths of Maria Droste Vila split by the highway and surrounded by Telheiral’s residential park. Its path’s oblique angles are positioned in such a way that they can optimize predominant wind directions.The brigde also has feature provides a tunnel for pedestrians and bikers too.

We hope in the future,all the infrastucture could serve energy they need from energy produce by theyself in anyways.Just like the Cross-Wind Bridge,the energy source produce could be more "green" by built in a recycled materials.

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Bacteria Powered Batteries

More researchs and discoverys has give rise to develope providing alternative energy and suistanable energy even more recyclable energy sources like bacteria powered batteries .MFCs(Microbial Fuels Cells) batteries that work with bacteria and other microbes have been created by Harvard scientists working under the Lebone banner.They uses bacteria found in African soil.The battery uses a layer of sand as the ionic membrane, mud with manure as the bacterial substrate, and a graphite cloth as the anode.

With the discovery of this MFCs expected can provide the electricity sources in remotes areas of Africa.The only non-biodegradable substance used in the bacteria powered battery created by Lebone scientists is probably the 5 pound plastic bucket used to case the battery.Although the electricity power that produce by MFCs is not the same the general batteries power,its enough to power up few LED lights and small electronics.

Actually, bacteria powered batteries work with the chemical energy generated by bacteria and convert it into electrical energy using a relatively simple mechanism.Like regular batteries that consists of an anode (the negative end) and a cathode (the positive end),the bacteria powered batteries also has a membrane capable of filtering electrons (anions) and protons (cations) produced during the chemical breakdown of substances by bacteria.

After the bacterial breakdown begins result ions, the anions are transferred from the cathode compartment through an external circuit and the protons are sent to the cathode from the anode. In a nutshell, the chemical energy generated by bacterial activity is converted to electrical energy.

But not all bacteria are electrochemically active and could be mediator matter to accommodate the ions flow.The matters like thionine, methyl viologen, methyl blue, humic acid and neutral red were used as mediators but their toxicity was a major concern for scientists. A few years ago scientists engineered electrochemically active bacteria, and the science of bacteria powered batteries become the big leap forward. Mediator less MFCs can run on everything from waste water to a simple saline solution and are truly environment friendly batteries.

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Liquids Wastewater To Produce Ethanol

Finally our dream to be able to make waste water into ethanol to fuel vehicle engines will soon be realized.Recently 2 companies,Qteros and Applied CleanTech (ACT)a recycling company commodity in israel have collaborated to utilize ACT’s Recyllose™-based feedstock,produced from urban waste water solids to further increase the efficient and low cost of produce ethanol.

ACT have a technology called Sewage Recycling System (SRS).With this SRS,ACT can produces energy sources like electricity and ethanol from alternative energy sources with high quality.It also reducing deposit formation and reduce wastewater treatment plants costs and increase plant capacity.

For six year ACT has developing solutions to integrated waste recycling and claim the companies are the first to show commercial success to produce ethanol by municipal cellulose and agricultural waste water and reduce expenses process.

Qteros have customers who mostly from countries that have waste water treatment plant and making the processing plant is far cheaper to run and assist local governments throughout the world with their limited budgets.

Jeff Hausthor,Qteros co-founder and senior project manager said that an ethanol production plant can produce 120-135 Galon ethanol per ton Recyllose ™.
" Wastewater treatment plant that handles 150 million gallons per day (serving a population of approximately 2 million people) may be enough to supply the smaller scale ethanol plant with cellulose."said ACT President Refael Aharon, Ph.D.

We hope that the application of this technology can be applied not only in developed countries but also in developing countries so that our planet will be more friendly with a friendly waste water recycle.

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Recharged Electric Vehicles By Renewable

FPL Group and Duke Energy will collaborate with one another and invest $ 600 million to transition all of their company's passenger cars and trucks to plug-in hybrids or all- electric vehicles.FPL Group and Duke Energy is as well-known companies, known because of their commitment to clean energy and green energy.The process will be set into motion by next year and more than 10,000 vehicles will have the ability to return energy from the power grid.

If they can achieve their goals will lead to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by more than 125,000 metric tons during the next 10 years. They hope to finish their project by 2020.That it was announced at Clinton Global Initiative's (CGI) fifth annual meeting in New York City.

"If PEVs replacing all gasoline-powered vehicles in the United States, they will reduce the need for foreign oil imports by nearly two-third.Plug-in electric vehicles to reduce overall carbon emissions by 70 percent (100 percent if charged by a zero-carbon sources renewable energy) and lower fuel costs about 80 percent "According to a press company.But only the initiative of the two companies is not enough. This goal must be done at the national level.

Vehicles that run on intermittent renewables (like solar and wind) and electric vehicles do not provide seamless. They come with Hitches. One common problem is that they all share range. Solar power is produced only during the day. The wind provides power when the wind blows: the range. Plug-ins that come with the vehicles have their range as well. That's as far as vehicles can travel between the length of charging.

Plug-in vehicles containing a battery for energy storage. But as far as renewable energy no energy storage. We can do one thing: using electric cars and trucks to store energy from renewable energy. Another logical step is to install renewably powered, high voltage, fast-charging station costs. This will ease the tension of the owner of the vehicle and make more frequent charging that the old charge period will not be needed.

Rabobank and SolarCity ® try to achieve the above goal in partnerships in California. The companies have jointly stated, "a partnership to create the world's first enhanced solar energy, fast-charge an electric car charging corridor. When complete, the corridor will include four locations between San Francisco and Los Angeles (Salinas, Atascadero, Santa Maria and Goleta), which allows all-electric car to travel by using solar energy and provides the fastest charge time available to the public electric vehicle (EV) charges. "

SolarCity will own and control stations in the corridor. They will work with electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors. Solar charging, using 240-volt charging will give a full charge in one-third the amount of time the other station. The corridor will provide an example of the first inter-regional effort of its kind. This will be the first again is included solar charging station. Rabobank has set up the first 30-kilowatt array at a bank branch. They considered installing solar power at an additional location. When not used to charge cars the power will offset power used at the locations.


We can use intermittent renewables energy to our advantage. We can extent this green electricity to our home. A plug from car to house can power-up a house overnight.

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Improve Hydrogen By Adding Lithium

Superconductor materials have no electrical resistance and paves way for electrons to travel through them freely. Superconductor materials also carry large amounts of electrical current for long periods of time without losing energy as heat.Researchers believe that metallic hydrogen may prove to be a High Temperature Superconductor.


We know that hydrogen is the lightest element present in this universe, and lithium is the third lightest element. We find that hydrogen gas and lithium metal as a certain temperature and pressure present on the earth. The hydrogen atoms are strongly coupled, and each hydrogen atom contributes one electron to the bond.In chemistry shorthand, hydrogen is called H2.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week published an article written by a team of researchers from Cornell University and State University of New York. She shared that a small amount of lithium if we add hydrogen, and if we keep the pressure on about a quarter of a pressure (hydrogen is converted to a metal) hydrogen is transformed into a metal with superconductivity properties.National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided finances for this project.

Hydrogen and lithium react with each other and form a stable non-metallic material. Its looks like LIH and known as lithium-hydrogen compound. Jupiter and Saturn experience the intense gravity and the hydrogen pressure is found in metallic form. Scientists try to create situations so that they can extract the hydrogen electron. How? They try to squeeze between the facets of a diamond anvil cell under pressures up to 3.4 million atmospheres. We know that the air pressure at sea level is one atmosphere and in the center of the earth is around 3.5 million atmospheres. Researchers have found many problems with this method of constant pressure. They tried shock-wave methods. This is a kind of advanced computer.

The program is a theoretical calculation that hydrogen can be metal coated by combining a lithium atom with varying number of hydrogen atoms. The programs also calculate, metallic hydrogen under pressure can be achieved in a laboratory. Hydrogen and lithium combinations predicted by the studies have not checked in a laboratory until now.

The research team is testing out different combinations of hydrogen and lithium. A combination of a lithium atom contains six hydrogen atoms or LiH6. The complex calculations predict that in the imaginary compound Li atom is activated to a single outer electron, which is then distributed among the three H2 molecules discharge. It has already confirmed that pressure, forms the hypothetical reaction of a stable composition and metallic hydrogen. The calculations also LiH6 which may be a metal at normal pressure. But under these conditions was unstable and decompose to form H2 and LIH.

"The stable and LiH6 metal compound is predicted to form approximately 1 million atmospheres, which is about 25 percent of the pressure required for hydrogen metalize themselves," says Eva Zurek, head of the paper and an assistant professor of chemistry at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

"Interestingly, between approximately 1 and 1.6 million atmospheres, all of the LiH combinations studied were stable or metastable and all were metallic,” said Roald Hoffmann, co-author, recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry and Cornel

One of the hypothetical compounds studied by the team was composed of a lithium atom and two hydrogen atoms or LiH2 (see right).

"The theoretical study opens exciting possibilities for the non-traditional combinations of light elements under high pressure can produce metallic hydrogen under experimentally accessible pressures and lead to the discovery of new materials and new states of matter," said Daryl Hess, program director of NSF Division of Materials Research .

"Again, these researchers have taken a new boundary chemistry," says Carol Bessel, a program director at NSF Chemistry Division. "They described their theories and calculations, molecules that test our basic assumptions about atoms, molecules and structures. Experimentalists do the challenge to what they thought in their minds a reality will be held in his hand. "

Group members believe that the information gleaned from the study show that large amounts of hydrogen can combine with other elements. The information can also further help with the design of a hydrogen-based metal Superconductor.

Neil W. Ashcroft, who co-author and Cornell's Horace White Professor of Physics, Emeritus said: "We have already had contact with the laboratory experimentalists on how LiH6 can be made, starting perhaps with a very finely divided form of joint compound along the LIH with additional hydrogen.

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