Energy News

Interview: Super-Efficient 'Gun' Engine
Canadian inventor, Kazimierz Holubowicz, has come up with an environmentally friendly and transmission-free engine based on the same mechanics as how a bullet is shot from a gun. More recent test results showed a 14% increase in torque while using 10% as much fuel. (FreeEnergyNow; Aug. 4, 2008)

ICreateProfits Service Helps Energy Website Development
A great tool for those with websites (energy or otherwise), to help them improve, but especially for those who are contemplating making the plunge, with beginning-to-end resources. Instructive step-by-step videos aid the concise instructions. (ICreateProfits)

Lateral Aperture Solar Design
'Think of a sheet of glass set out to capture the sunlight; instead of letting the light pass through or reflecting it off somewhere, it captures the light inside the thickness of the pane. It then redirects it toward an edge, or a number of them, where it then emerges at a concentration ratio.' (PESWiki; July 23, 2008)

What You Can Do Now to Go Green and Save Money
Products and concepts presently available and doable which help you reduce your footprint on the planet while also saving you money. These products are some of the best so far as we can tell. (PESWiki)

Interview with TMA Global Wind Energy Systems
Vertical axis wind turbine design creates pull on the back side contributing to 40 percent+ wind conversion efficiencies. Doesn't kill birds, runs more quietly, doesn't need to be installed as high, blends better with landscape, cost-competitive, going commercial. (FreeEnergyNow; July 28, 2008)

Electrolysis Breakthrough Makes Solar Storage Affordable
MIT researchers have combined a liquid catalyst with photovoltaic cells to achieve nearly a 100 percent efficient electrolysis in a simple set-up, which could make solar energy more affordable and practical -- excess capacity during the day could be stored as hydrogen and oxygen, then used in fuel cells at night when needed. (PESWiki; Aug. 1, 2008)

Water-Fueled Car from Sri Lanka
Epoch Energy Technology Corp is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of Oxy-hydrogen gas generators and solar water heaters. They have developed a method by which ordinary soft water can be instantly transformed into oxygen-hydrogen fuel. (PESWiki; July 23, 2008)

Water-Fueled Car from Sri Lanka
A Sri Lankan inventor has come up with a super-efficient electrolysis method that allegedly enables a small vehicle to travel 80 kilometres on just one litre of water, without any danger to life or any impact on the environment. (PESWiki; July 23, 2008)

McQueen Machine - Revolutionary Energy Generating Machine
The patented McQueen Machine is a new 'Internal Energy Generating Power Source' that uses positive electrical charges from the atmosphere to generate power. It is claimed to generate more energy than is required to operate the machine. (PESWiki; July 24, 2008)

Videographer Posts Magnet Motor Spoof
On July 27, 2008, Alan D. Joseph posted a video to YouTube showing a motor that appears to spin with no batteries or other electrical input. Is it real, or was he putting his video skills to use? (PESWiki; July 24, 2008)

LaFonte Perpendicular Magnetics Motor
Butch LaFonte now offers to open source what he and his associates have come up with, being far enough along to begin some serious building and testing and possibly start coming up with some useful output designs. (PESWiki; July 24, 2008)

Free Energy and the Open Source Movement Series
In this series of articles, Steve Windisch examines several 'Free Energy' devices, explains their workings in a simplified way, while discussing the proposed theories behind them. Interviews look at new inventors and researchers working within the Open Source Energy movement today. (PESWiki; July 20, 2008)

NEC Says Gore's Ten-Year Renewable Energy Plan is Achievable
The New Energy Congress is taking up the challenge to show how it will be possible to achieve the goal of 100 percent of U.S. energy coming from renewable energy sources within ten years, (PESWiki; July 25, 2008)

2008 Hydrogen Implementation Conference
Michael Riverson reports on the conference held July 22 - 24 in Laramie, Wyoming, covered a wide range of hydrogen generation sources, storage mechanisms, transport infrastructure, and application considerations. (PESN; July 25, 2008)

Hydrogen-Assist Fuel Cell Warning from Former Installer
Richard Coyle said the units sometimes work at first, but then the improvements go away, and in their place some serious problems arise such as stuck idle motors, boiling water and gunk in the motors, plugged air filters. (PESWiki; July 22, 2008)

Boosting Acetone's Improvement on Mileage
Steve D. Gage gives the logic and data behind his conclusion that vehicle fuel efficiency can be improved 50 percent by adding 1 oz acetone per gallon and tricking the car's computer into detecting an excess of oxygen so it richens up the mixture. (PESWiki; July 19, 2008)

Using Tesla's Valvular Conduit to Harness Water Waves
Proposal to combine (1) Nicola Tesla's 'Valvular Conduit', patented in 1920, which is essentially a one-way fluidic valve, and (2) the Anaconda Bulge Wave concept of having rubber tubing move up and down with ocean waves, in order to provide a simple and cost-effective mechanism for harnessing sea wave energy. (PESWiki; July 18, 2008)

Tangarie Alternative Power's spiral wind turbine
The Greenpower Utility System line of vertical axis wind turbines produces up to 50 percent more electricity on an annual basis, generates electricity in winds as low as 4 mph (1.5 m/s), and continues to generate power in wind speeds up to 130 mph (60m/s). It withstands extreme weather such as frost, ice, sand, humidity; and is low-noise. (PESWiki)

EeFuel additive gets flatline results on heavy-duty rigs test
A fleet in California that has multiple trucks taking the same route every day hauling lumber out and wood chips back, ran three of their trucks for a week using the eeFuel additive, but saw no improvement in mileage. (PESN; July 19, 2008)

Slowing Down Doesn't Always Save Money
Vehicles are designed to achieve optimal efficiency at certain engine rpms and speeds. Going slower can actually use more fuel over the same distance, especially at much lower speeds. The Nissan Quest minivan does 35 mpg at 75 mph, wherease it only gets 30 mpg at 55 mph. (PESWiki; July 19, 2008)

Hypermiling - Driving Tips for Better Mileage
Hypermilers are drivers who exceed the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated fuel efficiency on their vehicles by modifying their driving habits. (PESWiki; July 15. 2008)

CEO Interview: TESNIC vertical-axies wind turbine
The TESNIC, invented by Horia Nica, is based on the principles of the Tesla turbine, extracting the wind power via adhesion, in addition to the classic drag and lift extraction, enabling it to achieve a very high efficiency. (FreeEnergyNow.net; July 14, 2008)

James D. Hardy's Self-Looped Water Pump and Electricity Generator
Massachusetts inventor demonstrates a patent pending technology in which a 165 gallon/minute water pump powers a water wheel, which is connected through belts to a one horse power generator, which powers the water pump as well as an incandescent bulb. (PESWiki; July 16, 2008)

SHEC Labs Claims to Have World's Most Efficient Solar Thermal Tech (http://pesn.com/2008/07/14/9501487_SHEC_labs_solar_thermal_record/) (Interview)
By focusing the concentrated rays into the aperture of a highly-reflective, elongated tube, by the time the light bounces back out, it has gradually dumped 95% of its heat into the tube, which can then be put to work. (PESN; July 14, 2008)

What You Can Expect Open Sourcing Energy Technology
Sterling Allan describes how an ideal open source energy technology might roll out from beginning -- even before it is publicly posted -- through the time of early replications, to end when it spreads throughout the earth to bless mankind. (PESWiki; July 13, 2008)

Maryn International's lubrication solutions
Maryn is a leading developer and manufacturer of high performance industrial additives which significantly improve lubricity and which also improve mileage. While the product is aimed at the trucking industry, it also works well in any car. (PESWiki; July 7, 2008)

Beijing 2008 "Green" Olympics
We take a look at the environmental theme around the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing August 8-24, such as air and water quality, green buildings and modes of transportation, and health impacts on Olympic athletes. (PESWiki; July 7, 2008)

G24 Innnovations Ltd rolls out solar
Automated "roll-to-roll" manufacturing process transforms a lightweight roll of metal foil into a 100-pound half-mile of G24i's Dye Sensitized Thin Film in less than three hours. This material is rugged, flexible, lightweight and generates electricity even indoors and in low light conditions. (PESWiki)

HeliWind's twist on floating wind generation
The HeliWind design by the Hawaii Consulting Group replaces the blades and tower of a conventional wind turbine with a lighter-than-air helical balloon and lowers the generator to the ground. With generating costs expected at around 3.4cents/kW-hr, the design is expected to go into production in June 2011. (PESWiki; July 6, 2008)

TESNIC vertical-axis wind turbine
The TESNIC is based on the principles of the Tesla turbine, extracting the wind power via adhesion, in addition to the classic drag and lift extraction, enabling it to achieve a very high efficiency, with the potential cost of electricity produced below the utility price. (PESWiki.com)

Interview with Broadstar Wind Systems
Like a wind surfer, the horizontal blades of the Broadstar turbine change their angle of attack as they go around the perimeter, so that they are generating torque in nearly every position. It is much easier to ship and assemble these units because the largest components can be fit in 20-foot shipping containers. (FreeEnergyNow; June 30, 2008)

Sopogy Concentrated Solar
Recently named the "Venture Capital Deal of the Year," Sopogy specializes in MicroCSP solar technologies that bring the economics of large solar energy systems to the industrial, commercial and utility sectors in a smaller, robust and more cost effective package. (PESWiki; July 2, 2008)

Modifying the ECU to Accomodate a New Mixture from Hydrogen Boosting
One of the most knowledgeable researchers and compilers of the various approaches being tried with on-board electrolizers is New Energy Congress member, Noah Seidman. This is his latest article on the topic. (PESWiki; July 2, 2008)

Alternative Energy Partnership Conference Report
Outside-the-box energy technology enthusiasts converged in Maryland to share and inspect various inventions from hydrogen booster systems to a lawn mower converted to run on GEET reactor. (PESN; July 2, 2008)

David Hamel Magnet Motor
Supposedly, the 3-cone device gives forth the principle of what Hamel alleges to be "perpetual motion...the usage of duality/magnetism and of vibration. Chaos physics induced through 3-body physics." Working prototypes are held by hand. (PESWiki)

Syntroleum Bio-Synfining process
This flexible feed, flexible synthetic fuel technology is able to take a wide variety of renewable feedstocks such as natural gas, vegetable oils, fats, and greases; and turn them into liquid hydrocarbons including diesel and jet fuels. (PESWiki; June 24, 2008)

Turbine Truck Engines, LLC
Owns an exclusive license for the manufacturing and marketing of a highly innovative, environmentally-friendly 300 to 1,000 horsepower turbine-based truck engine. Known as the Detonation Cycle Gas Turbine engine, its patented cyclical detonation technology is poised to revolutionize the heavy-duty truck engine market. (PESWiki; June 25, 2008)

Does Blackle Conserve Computer Screen Energy?
Do we save or use more power when we use black as a background on a computer screen? If you still have a CRT display, then Blackle makes sense. If you use a flat-screen display, which has been the majority for a few years, the opposite effect takes place. (PESWiki; June 24, 2008)

Clean Energy Road Show Launch Imminent
Laurel White's year-long road show will educate people about easy-to-implement clean energy solutions available now, many of which can actually save money; and to give hope about the future by reviewing some of the most promising clean emerging technologies. (PESN; June 23, 2008)

China - A New Magnetic Conversion of Zero Point Energy
The Wang Shum Ho prototype 5kW electricity generator is reportedly powered by permanent magnets and claimed to be close to production. The team is seeking a marketing partner and offers a working prototype for viewing by financial backers. (PESWiki; June 21, 2008)

Strike-Heel Generation
New directory dedicated to piezoelectric and heel-strike generation systems for generating power from 'good vibrations'. (PESWiki; June 20, 2008)

Zero Point Unlimited's Hydrogen Booster
ZPU is pursuing research and development of the Stanley Meyer Hydrogen fuel cell, a method of obtaining the release of a gas mixture including hydrogen and oxygen. Units for sale. (PESWiki; June 19, 2008)

Shinyeon Magnet and Wind Systems
Shinyeon Energy Research Center of Korea has two highly exotic prototypes. One is a piston-based permanent magnet motor called the Magforce engine, that doesn't require fuel or electricity. The other as a tower-based induction wind generator. (PESWiki; June 18, 2008)