Do you want solar panels but don’t own a desert or sunny rooftop on which to hang them? ”No problem,” says CleanPath Ventures – a renewable energy projects capital company which plans to sell individualized plots of solar power plants to consumers. Solar panels and solar systems are not for everyone. They’re expensive, complicated, and [...]
Remember the MiniPAK portable fuel cell that’s capable of recharging common electronic devices? The device, which converts hydrogen stored in a metal hydride solution with oxygen in the air to create electricity, provides four AA batteries worth of electrical power on each refill of its removable HydroSTIK. The only problem is that users of the [...]
I have no idea if fuel cells are going to be the alternative energy source of the future, but if technology like the Bloom Box and products like the MiniPak from Horizon Fuel Cell start to permeate society, they’ll definitely be a strong contender. The MiniPak is a pocketable power source that generates up [...]
Ok, so we’re not talking about powering light bulbs, TV’s, or anything substantial, but the idea is still almost as cool as beaming power from space. It seems that the geniuses at RCA have refined a technique by which the minute amounts of energy carried by a 2.4GHz WiFi signal can be harnessed and stored [...]
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