The Greyp G12 is designed from the ground up to combine the best of both worlds – motorcycles and bicycles. It is a bicycle when you want it, or a motorcycle when you need it.
With stunning performance for an electric bike – 65 km/h top speed and a range of up to 120 km without pedaling,. It can easily be recharged from 0 to 100 percent in only 80 minutes – from a standard 220V outlet.
You can pedal if you want, assist the motor or drive the G12 like a motorcycle. It will reach 65 km/h without any assistance by the rider.
You never need to sweat riding up a hill again and when you go downhill, the motor can recharge the battery with up to 2 kW of power while braking. Most of the time you – won’t even need the mechanical brakes – regen braking will do all the work.
Alas, it comes with a heft price tag of over $7000 USD.
Forget Mother Nature: when it comes to all matters matter, the sheer ingenuity of the human mind can give rise to some of the most insane--and useful--new materials you've ever encountered.
It seems materials science is really rocking and is full of possibilities for the future ... making new materials out of stuff that is abundant in nature, or with the help of bacteria.
The ability to create our own unique materials will most definitely propel developments that have been put on the back burner. Many imaginative ideas have been left at the black board stage as the materials needed were unavailable or did not exist. Now materials of certain properties can be invented (within reason of course) through the combination of any number of existing elements. Products in the future may be lighter, stronger, and much more durable.
A GROUNDBREAKING new Irish technology which could be the greatest breakthrough in agriculture since the plough is set to change the face of modern farming forever.
The technology – radio wave energised water – massively increases the output of vegetables and fruits by up to 30 per cent.
Not only are the plants much bigger but they are largely disease-resistant, meaning huge savings in expensive fertilisers and harmful pesticides.
Extensively tested in Ireland and several other countries, the inexpensive water treatment technology is now being rolled out across the world.
Redox says that it plans to bring to market a fuel cell that is about one-tenth the size and one-tenth the cost of currently commercial fuel cells by 2014.
The breakthrough solid oxide fuel cell technology is the brainchild of Eric Wachsman, the director of the University of Maryland’s Energy Research Center.
Redox says that it will provide safe, efficient, reliable, uninterrupted power, on–site and optionally off the grid, at a price competitive with current energy sources.
BlackLight has achieved a proprietary breakthrough power-producing system continuously operating that converts ubiquitous H2O vapor directly into electricity as confirmed by six separate independent individual or groups of leading scientists from academia and industry with Ph.D.s from prestigious universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology.
Specifically, BlackLight has developed a commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy that forms a predicted, previously undiscovered, more stable form of hydrogen called “Hydrino” that releases two hundred times more energy than burning hydrogen enabling ubiquitous H2O vapor to serve as the source of H2 fuel.
The Catalyst Induced Hydrino Transition (CIHT) electrochemical cell invented to harness this fundamentally new primary energy source as electrical output uses a catalyst to cause hydrogen atoms of water molecules to transition to lower-energy Hydrino states by allowing their electrons to fall to smaller radii around the nucleus, resulting in a release of energy that is intermediate between chemical and nuclear energies.
BlackLight Power has been around for more than a decade and has continually been developing their hydrino energy production method and getting results verified by university scientists...
The University of Colorado at Boulder has designed a hydrogen plant that uses an array of mirrors to focus sunlight onto a huge tower. The tower heats up to 1,350 °C - enough to liberate hydrogen from steam.
‘We have designed something here that is very different from other methods and frankly something that nobody thought was possible before,’ said lead scientist Professor Alan Weimer, from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
‘Splitting water with sunlight is the Holy Grail of a sustainable hydrogen economy.’
Hydrogen could be used as a fuel for road transport, distributed heat and power generation, and for energy storage.
Two chemists at the University of California Los Angeles, Maher Elkady and Richard Kaner, have produced an impressive prototype array of graphene micro-supercapacitors using little more than a home-version DVD laser burner.
They also found that miniaturizing the device to micron scale results in enhanced charge-storage capacity and performance, giving a power density of ~200 W cm-3, among the highest achieved for any supercapacitor.
The process is readily scalable and the devices can be made on large substrates at a fraction of the cost of traditional microfabrication methods.
Chemists with the University of Texas and the University of Marburg havedevised a method of using a small electrical field that will remove the salt from seawater.
Incredibly this technique requires little more than a store-bought battery.
Called electrochemically mediated seawater desalination (EMSD) this technique has improved upon the current water desalination method.
It needs further development, but when scaled up it could provide desalinated sea water at a fraction of the cost of today's membrane based reverse osmosis systems...
This leads right back to the work of Austrian naturalist and forester Viktor Schauberger, who lived in the early part of the last century and was called the Water Wizard by his contemporaries.
Some articles inspired by Schauberger's work are on
A comprehensive study into the potential for compressed air energy storage in the Pacific Northwest has identified two locations in Washington state that could store enough wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month.
Compressed air is an ideal way to store energy from those modern day windmills.
The method tends to equal out periods of much wind with those lacking it, and is able to deliver a constant flow of electricity to the net.
It could be made even more efficient if the wind mills would directly compress the air, instead of a triple conversion of wind to electricity, electricity to compressed air and compressed air back to electricity. Each step loses some of the energy...
A visionary idea called STRAWSCRAPER, the first project to come out of the business called Belatchew Labs. STRAWSCRAPER is an extension of the south tower on Södermalm in Stockholm with a new energy-producing shell covered with hairs that can extract wind energy.
Belatchew Architects want to give South tower its original proportions and at the same time explore new technologies to create the future of urban wind farming.
By using piezoelectric technology a large number of thin ribs produce electricity only through the small movements generated by the wind. The result opens up possibilities for how buildings can produce energy in the future. Surfaces on both existing and new buildings can suddenly be converted into energy producing units.
Lots of official "disbelief" is still greeting this revolutionary technology, which has the potential to radically change the energy landscape, to eventually allow us to put burning carbon-based fossil fuels to rest.
A team of IBM researchers is working on a solar concentrating dish that will be able to collect 80% of incoming sunlight and convert it to useful energy.
The High Concentration Photovoltaic Thermal system will be able to concentrate the power of 2,000 suns while delivering fresh water and cool air wherever it is built.
As an added bonus, IBM states that the system would be just one third the cost third of current comparable technologies.
Picture this. You have a motor turning an output generator, and the generator is producing enough energy to keep the motor running, as well as enough left over to power other things. (It's a little more complicated, but that is the general idea.)
And it's all built from off-the-shelf, readily-available components that are well-engineered for long duration running, and which have the needed certifications for power output suitable for home power.
This system generates power with NO fuel NO charging and little upkeep.
I know, it sounds crazy. But it works. Or at least that is the aim.
Four years ago, then 66-year-old inventor from London, Dr. Christopher Strevens, began posting a website with instructions of how to build his "fusion reactor", which he says: "Creates helium from hydrogen.
It also captures the power given off during the reaction as electrical power."
He also posted several videos to YouTube showing his prototype in operation, and showing the different color of gas from before versus after; as well as showing spectral analysis that indicates that the hydrogen that he puts into the system has transmuted to helium -- a nuclear phenomenon.
He said: "I found that when I increased the exciter power to 800 Watts the output rose to 2,000 Watts [2.5-times overunity], and when I isolated the reactor from the exciter this power remained. The spark gap regulator became active keeping the power at this level. I only allowed this for a short time before reconnecting the exciter and turning the power down and the reaction ceased."
Plasma fusion with transmutation of hydrogen into helium ... brings to mind the question: Why is it that garage inventor with limited means seems to be able to achieve what has been eluding the best of our fusion scientists with billions in funding. Are the scientists working on a wrong theoretical basis?
Quite a kitchen science here ;-) it does pretty much show that to pursue your scientific interests you do not need always a big lab with cohort of apprentices.
The project is said to be based on open design and open source principles calling for feedback. Here are the two related quotes:
“Hyperloop is also unique in that it is an open design concept, similar to Linux. Feedback is desired from the community that can helpadvance the Hyperloop design and bring it from concept to reality.”
“The intent of this document has been to create a new open source form of transportation that could revolutionize travel. The authors welcome feedback and will incorporate it into future revisions of the Hyperloop project, following other open source models such as Linux.
This is a really fascinating future way of transportation. Is really intriguing and make me recall about Brunel's high speed transport based on pipes pressure difference.
A newly published study reveals how scientists used a solar cell and a photo anode made of a metal oxide to achieve a solar hydrogen production breakthrough.
The experts were able to develop a rather elegant and simple system for using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
This process, called artificial photosynthesis, allows solar energy to be stored in the form of hydrogen. The hydrogen can then be used as a fuel either directly or in the form of methane, or it can generate electricity in a fuel cell.
One rough estimate shows the potential inherent in this technology: At a solar performance in Germany of roughly 600 Watts per square meter, 100 square meters of this type of system is theoretically capable of storing 3 kilowatt hours of energy in the form of hydrogen in just one single hour of sunshine. This energy could then be available at night or on cloudy days.
Looks like a neat advance in solar technology. Storage of electrical energy is always a problem and producing hydrogen builds the storage right in, with a fuel that can be used in a variety of ways ...
In a recent paper in the new journal Energy Technology, postdoctoral researcher and lead author Mohan Manoharan and colleagues report on experiments with various alkali-free glass compositions and thicknesses, comparing their energy density and power density to commercial polymer capacitors currently used in electric vehicles to convert energy from the battery to the electric motor.
Because polymer capacitors are designed to operate at lower temperatures, they require a separate cooling system and a larger safety factor, which adds to their bulk.
In his research, Manoharan identified 10-micron thick glass from Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) as having an ideal combination of high energy density and power density, with high charge-discharge efficiency at temperatures up to 180 °C and, in more recent experiments, even higher.
The new superstar in materials science and condensed matter physics is a flat single layer of carbon atoms packed into a crystalline honeycomb lattice that could go on forever.
Curled up, it gives fullerenes (the familiar buckyballs), rolled up, it forms carbon nanotubes, and stacked up in layers, it is the graphite in our pencils.
Electronically, graphene is a superconductor even at room temperatures. It conducts much easier and faster than copper and at a million times the current density...
Graphene is relatively simple to make, and the raw material for it is abundant. There are many applications for it in computers, solar energy catchers, and other things.
Electricity generation from renewable sources worldwide will exceed that from gas and be twice that from nuclear power by 2016 says the International Energy Agency.
The IEA says renewable power is expected to jump by 40% in the next five years and will make up almost a quarter of the global power mix by2018. The prediction is in the IEA’s second annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report...
It is good to see there's progress towards getting off fossil fuels, but we still have a ways to go ... and there are new free energy technologies being developed that may bring us there even faster.
Richard Aho of MIST Energy Systems has been working for years on the idea that hydrogen bond energy could be harnessed. He went on working where others had abandoned the field because they knew it "couldn't be done".
In his Mist Energy System, water is pressurized by a commercially available high pressure pump, it is then released through a nozzle into an impact chamber, where the jet hits a metal target. Heat is released and the water instantly transforms into steam.
The energy spent to pressurize the water and pre-heat the impact chamber is about one tenth of the energy contained in the steam that is produced.
Enough about this "clean energy just can't be done, we need (coal, oil, gas, atomic power) to meet energy needs". There ARE clean technologies that can produce energy. This is one of them. No more excuses...
The Water Capacitor turns water into a hydrogen-oxygen gas mixture that can then be used as a fuel for heating, cooking, welding, fixed generators, and powering internal combustion engines.
The Water Capacitor will then be incorporated into a kit offered from True Green solutions to individual consumers.
The Proof of Principle was demonstrated in Stanley Meyer's original water splitting devices as hydrogen fuel was extracted from water with his Electrical Polarization invention that was documented in his patents through the mode of operability.
Edward Mitchell has already built a working prototype and is now refining the design to be incorporated into a complete Exciter Array (Water Fuel Capacitor(C)) Kit.
Stanley Meyer died an untimely death just after he had secured a $ 5m investment to start commercial production of his super efficient water splitting technology.
Edward Mitchell continued in Meyer's footsteps and is ready to develop a kit. He does need funds to do that. This is his crowdfunding campaign.
Researchers have come up with various electrode materials to improve the performance of supercapacitors, focussing mostly on porous carbon due to its high surface areas, tunable structures, good conductivities, and low cost.
"We were able to achieve this by employing a biomass precursor with a unique structure – hemp bast fiber," Zhi Li, a post doc researcher in David Mitlin's group at the University of Alberta, tells Nanowerk. "The resultant graphene-like nanosheets possess fundamentally different properties (pore size distribution, physical interconnectedness and electrical conductivity) as compared to conventional biomass-derived activated carbons."
As we learn more, our political aberrations - yes, prohibition is a purely political aberration with a moralistic background - become obvious. In this case, there is yet another industrial use for a valuable crop that has been all but abandoned since it threatened the chemical fibres monopoly of DuPont...
A super efficient light and practical vehicle .. conceptualised and created by Sanjay Dastoor. - Imagine an electric vehicle that can get you to work -- or anywhere in a six-mile radius -- quickly, without traffic frustrations or gasoline. Now imagine you can pick it up and carry it with you. Yes, this souped-up skateboard could change the face of morning commutes.
Un skateboard avec un petit moteur électrique. La vidéo youtube ( http://youtu.be/IWV8irg64oM ) montre les concepteurs au travail et sur route. Elle serait parfaite pour présenter des transports alternatifs aux élèves de 6e, si elle était traduite. Qui s'y colle ? ;-)
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Now we are starting to talk. Finally an electric bike that seems fun to drive ...