Imagine a non-polluting power plant the size of a local gasoline station, that would quietly and safely power 4,000 homes, for a tenth of what you are paying now.

Popularity: 41% [?]

Wouldn’t it be grand if we had a guaranteed supply of hot air that runs electrical generator turbines and doesn’t cost a dime? This is the idea behind a large-scale solar electric generator that requires ZERO FUEL. <== Pause here and think about that for a minute…

Popularity: 26% [?]

A portable solar generator provides both household (120-Volt) and automotive-type (12-Volt) current. It has a battery which it charges with a photovoltaic (PV) panel, and an inverter which converts the 12V from the PV to the 120V that we all use for our stuff. By “stuff”, I mean all the conveniences of home, such as laptop computers, satellite transceivers, boom boxes, TVs, short-wave radios, fans, and electric cucumbers. (I don’t even know what that means).

Popularity: 91% [?]

It’s a $6 kit you buy on line. It has construction materials and instructions for making two light-weight paper airplanes, designed especially for attaching to a fly, and then the fly powers the plane.

Popularity: 22% [?]

There is enough energy in the ocean to generate 300 times more electricity than the whole world needs.

Popularity: 25% [?]

Don’t dream it, be it
Sometimes when I can’t afford to actually DO something or MAKE something (i.e. most of the time), I just sort of sit down and THINK about it. The spiritual among us would call this visualizing. I call it dreaming.

Popularity: 26% [?]

Popularity: 26% [?]

The hell you say!
Gasoline right out of the air? Yes, and I can prove it. The concept is so simple, I should have thought of this myself. To understand how we get gasoline from thin air, you have to know what gasoline is made of. So here’s all you need to know. Don’t freak out at the molecule diagram. Anything you can represent with Tinkertoys^® can’t be that hard.

Popularity: 45% [?]

Popularity: 45% [?]

Seth Fischbein and Sub Do at Coskata

Brazil Is Off The Hook
As of 2006, because of ethanol production from sugar cane waste, and some new off-shore oil discoveries, Brazil is energy-independant. Not only do they not import fuel, they actually export $800 million in ethanol annually.

Popularity: 40% [?]

Popularity: 40% [?]

CEO Frank Pringle with
Lead Engineer
Hawk Hogan of G.R.C.

The Green River Deposit
There is a deposit of oil under the Green River in Colorado which holds EIGHT TIMES more oil than ALL of Saudi Arabia’s oil fields combined. What’s the catch? The deposit is in the form of oil SHALE.

If you add up the estimated yield from all U.S. oil shale deposits, you are looking at 2 TRILLION barrels of oil. Now THAT would hold us for 270+ years, if we could only get at it.

Popularity: 33% [?]

Popularity: 33% [?]

The Breakthrough
Nanosolar is a company founded in 2002 in San José, California, with the goal of making a new kind of affordable photovoltaic (PV) cell.. They have acheived that goal. For the first time in history, we can make electricity cheaper with sunlight than with a coal-fired plant.

The Old Way
Until now, PV panels cost 3$ for every watt of electricity they produced. The expense was due to the process they had to use. Semiconductor and

Popularity: 18% [?]

Popularity: 18% [?]