Energy
Power Sources
Solar powered rainwater pump
Pumps up to 100 gallons on a single charge and runs off of a solar rechargeable NiMH battery. Adaptable to most style rain barrels...
Army readies to sever from the grid
Plan to measure the effectiveness of microgrids and their potential to make energy infrastructures more efficient and cyber-secure...
Daryl Hannah slams Steven Chu
Says Mexico Climate Change conference center is over-air-conditioned and condemns Chu for proposing “nothing concrete” in his keynote speech....
Using a car to charge batteries
How to use vehicle as a back-up generator for when batteries get too low due to absence of sun or wind...
Save money on energy costs this winter
Short list of simple measures to reduce heating costs this winter...
Power a house using a waterwheel
The first off-the-shelf waterwheel system which can generate a good supply of electricity from a water fall as little as 20cm...
Tractor-inverter
an ultra-cheap, ‘inverter tractor’ works the fields and lights the home...
Generator dealers in North America
Distributors and dealers of engines, generators, engine-generator sets, switchgear or related equipment...
Inside fuel plant helping push up food prices
Wheat used could have been put into the food cycle, for humans or animals...
Can solar crash the grid?
Uptake of solar in Germany has been so great that the sudden appearance of the sun could generate so much power that it blows the county’s grid....
LPG Generators
Green Power gensets – CC5000 series with Single-Phase Synchronous Brush Alternators...
Yak wool power plant
The umbrella-like design uses yak wool and a cheap Chinese insulation fabric with unusually high reflectivity to focus the sun’s rays and generate about 1...