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The Holy Grail of energy was, is, and will be the solar power. Numerous solutions of converting solar power have existed along the centuries, and people have always used the Sun to power things up, except for the last hundred years or so - that’s the main reason we all got into troubles with mother [...]

Burning things to get energy is not something new, in fact this is what we’re trying to get rid of. I usually don’t promote “habits” like this on this green blog, but, nevertheless, there are a few cases where this can be considered alternative energy. Or, at least, you could say it’s an alternative to [...]

EquipmentTo make an yttrium-barium-copper-oxide superconductor, you will need:
* Yttrium Oxide
* Barium Carbonate (TOXIC)
* Cupric Oxide
* A Laboratory Furnace or a converted pottery kiln.
* Labware made of alumina.
* An Oxygen Source
* Liquid Nitrogen and a rare-earth magnet for testing and demonstrating the superconductors

Today I stumbled upon a web site made by a guy (he’s an astronomer) who did his own very cheap solar panel. He has a remote property in Arizona and there isn’t any power source, so he had to improvise it by himself.

Fighting global warming takes some personal restraint. It means saving energy by cutting back on miles driven or turning down the air conditioner a couple of degrees.But it doesn’t require drastically altering a person’s lifestyle, according to some climate experts.
People can do many things to reduce global warming that don’t require a lot of effort. [...]

Electrolysis is the technical name for using electricity to split water into its constituent elements, hydrogen and oxygen. The splitting of water is accomplished by passing an electric current through water. The electricity enters the water at the cathode, a negatively charged terminal, passes through the water and exists via the anode, the positively charged [...]

An Australian man, only identified by the name of Joe “X”, has designed a remarkable water Energy Cell that only utilizes water for a “fuel” and develops substantially more power than gasoline. It was originally designed for use in cars, but it can be used with almost any engine that normally runs on gasoline such [...]

This “How-to” tutorial I took from solorb.com, to whom I thank on this occasion for letting me put the info on my blog.Imagine it’s a cold autumn, winter or spring day with temperatures of a few degrees. This self-powered device can heat up your room from 10 degrees to 29.
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(C) G. Forrest Cook 2002
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The simplest fuel cell ‘burns’ hydrogen in a flameless chemical reaction to produce electricity. In order to ‘burn’ the hydrogen, a fuel cell needs a source of oxygen and this is usually obtained from air. The only by-product from this type of fuel cell is water.Unlike a battery, a fuel cell does not store chemicals [...]

German scientists have found a way of transforming body heat into electricity using circuitry.The discovery means that we may be able to operate our mobile phones using nothing but the warmth of our hands in the future.New circuits make it possible to harness body heat for generating electricity, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute found. This [...]

Build a Fuel Cell with a couple of Band Aids, an MEA and a few scraps of stainless steel bug screen by Gavin D. J. Harper. The story as to how this design came into being is probably a little too much information, but worth sharing none the less. Having spent some time playing with [...]

The ACCESS, as you can see in the title, was developed by Global Research Technologies in Tucson, Arizona. They made a sponge-based system that filters out CO2 from the air and releases clean oxygen.

Today I stumbled upon a web site made by a guy (he’s an astronomer) who did his own very cheap solar panel. He has a remote property in Arizona and there isn’t any power source, so he had to improvise it by himself.

Today I found another DIY project for generating alternative energy, by using the wind. It is a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), and it works by the same principle those huge wind turbines do, but they are much more easy and less expensive to build.