Jan

25

What is Trezium and Why is it Important?

January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Trezium is not a new element; it’s a registered trademark for a system to drive higher efficiency electric motor energy output.  It could be an important motor market choice through the management, implementation and use of the electron flow.  The mover for the technology is Thor Power. The idea is to increase motor efficiency at [...]

Jan

15

Energy Efficient Homes Sell For Higher Prices

January 15, 2010 | 2 Comments

It will come as no surprise that when buyers look at the total cost of ownership for living in a particular home the utilities matter.  In some places utilities are significant parts of the monthly expense.  The mortgage principle, interest and property taxes are for many the main concern as the lenders should be watching [...]

Nov

25

Attacking Oil

November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In laboratory experiments to be reported in the journal Chemosphere, University of Utah engineer and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Andy Hong demonstrated that “pressure-assisted ozonation and sand filtration” effectively removes oil droplets dispersed in water, indicating it could be used to prevent oil sheen from wastewater discharged into coastal waters.
First, the focus on [...]

Aug

18

The “First” Winner is Coolerado

August 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

June 2008 saw the University of California Davis’ Western Cooling Challenge inauguration.  The Cooling Challenge is a program of activities designed to help cooling-unit manufacturers deliver better products, and to help building owners install and use those products in their new and existing low-rise, nonresidential buildings such as suburban retail and office buildings.
The first certified [...]

Jul

21

A Fuel Supply Reality Check From the Brighter Minds

July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments

While some of us have repeatedly pointed out, here and Al Fin Energy as the short list of examples, efficiency can have a huge payoff.  One professor, Dan Sperling has a book out titled “Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability” that might tweak one’s thoughts.  It has in fact tweaked Geoffrey Styles who writes the [...]

May

28

Another Old Aerodynamic Assumption Bites the Dust

May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments

Logic, common sense and simple intuition suggest that the smoothest surface to reduce aerodynamic air drag would be the best for wings, propellers, hulls and bodies moving through the air. It looks like that seemingly obvious preconception is at an end.
The UK’s University of Warwick research, backed and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences [...]

Feb

11

The Efficiency Problem

February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

It isn’t easy to get the mass of people to move to efficiency. Big consumption equals a bigger ego, a perception of higher status and raw emotional gratification. It could be connected to the sin of pride or some such, but the other side has attractions too.
Getting efficiency has a more reasoned gratification; a shift [...]

Jan

8

The Nuisance of Heat Answered By Thermoelectric Converters

January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

Tetsuo Nozawa of Nikkei Electronics saw a demonstration of thermoelectric conversion while interviewing people at Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc. in the US. In the rig a candle is used to heat a thermoelectric converter.
What might be a surprise is that the process of burning the candle -> on to heating the thermoelectric converter -> powering [...]

Jan

2

The Silver Bullet

January 2, 2009 | 3 Comments

Happy New Year! For getting you started I’m going to give you the heads up on the silver bullet for new energy and fuel that works for you, right now and always.

Regular readers will know its efficiency. Use less. Now for the rest of the story as I’ve heard on the radio [...]

Dec

30

Save Almost All the Energy With Passive Heated Homes

December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments

In 1991 Wolfgang Feist (German Wikipedia Link) a physicist from Darmstadt Germany built the first passive heated home. Now the estimate is that 15,000 homes across Germany and Scandinavia have been built with the innovations Feist pioneered.
What’s different in a passive homes is ultrathick insulation very sophisticated doors and windows in an airtight design. That [...]