Vada Energy blog

Fuel cells are said to be the next big thing in the auto industry. In fact, they already are the next big thing. Fuel cells take advantage of the joining force between the oxygen and the hydrogen, and create electricity, used to drive anything (a car, more commonly). Price is a prohibitive variable in fuel [...]

When we speak of Atlantic City New Jersey, we speak about gambling, roulette wheels, cards and boardwalks. The energy need was never considered a problem till lately when costs reduction seem to interest everybody.

Remember Nanosolar? I wrote on article on them a few months ago, telling that they invented a light sensitive thin layer, that could be imprinted on various flexible surfaces and then used as solar batteries. They kept their word to it. Now Nanosolar has produced this little youtube movie showing the real process of fabrication [...]

Today I find it proper to inaugurate a new category for my blog: Pointless Green. It is about all pointless inventions that, although are green, have little to no impact on our lives, and are like reinventing the wheel. Although I have an immense respect for whoever invents anything, some of them are really “ingenious” [...]

When I was like 12, I did an interesting experiment: I connected a piezoelectric cigarette lighter to a halogen lamp based voltmeter measuring up to 3000V. The short spark easily raised the voltage above that figure. Of course, the current is very small, but the voltage is high - to the degree of about several [...]

While most of the green world’s attention is focused on solar and wind power, other ways to gather energy are being studied with less advertisement. This is the case of converting the ocean’s thermal differences into electricity.
Lockheed Martin, who is specialized in building rockets and aircraft engines, is surprisingly taking over this niche of energy [...]

Let’s start with the term “green”; what does it mean? I don’t know exactly. When I searched for a definition on Yahoo they returned 2,290,000 results and Google returned more than eight million.

This page is about alternative energy, and when I saw this first invention, even though you use an alternative energy to cook your burger this is not the healthiest way to cook.
The concept is very innovative, this device connects to the exhaust of your car, then you drive to your home or work and when [...]

Appearing for all the world like a habitable version of Chicago’s Cloud Gate, Lovegrove Studios‘ futuristic Alpine Capsule is designed to blend in with nature, reflecting and complementing its immediate environment. Powered by solar panels and a vertical axis wind turbine, the off-grid alpine retreat features a shimmering glass skin with a reflective coating that [...]

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. — very seriously. Now he’s found an eager [...]

Propellers on ships have been tried and tested for centuries in the rough and unforgiving environment of the sea: now this long-proven technology will be used in reverse to harness clean energy from the UK’s powerful tides.
The tides that surge around the UK’s coasts could provide up to a quarter of the nation’s electricity, without [...]

Chrysalix Energy invested several million dollars in a Dutch-based maker of ultrafast battery chargers that aim the market of electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Epyon B.V.,produced a “supercharge” technology that reduces the charge time of lithium-ion batteries 20 times below the times reached by current chargers. Rene Savelsberg, managing director and CEO of SET Venture [...]