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This is the kind of innovation the green movement needs. Shawn Frayne of Humdinger LLC explains his new invention using the phenomenon aeroelastic flutter to harness wind energy without using a big clunky wind turbine. Very cool idea and as the video below from Popular Mechanics shows, it seems to work pretty well. An explanation [...]

I was watching the Science Channel’s special “Powering the Future” and they had a segment on the CODA car company. It looks like it might be a nice alternative to the hybrids out there and even the Chevy Volt (in case you’re not a fan of Chevy). The CODA also has some nice specs going [...]

Overall the garden is progressing decently, but I’m noticing some slow growth with some of the plants. I think it has to do with our wild temperature swings lately. We’ve been having days ranging in the mid-80s to low 90s and nights as low as the mid 40s occasionally. Most nights it gets down to [...]

It’s been a wile since I last posted about the garden. I’ve been super busy setting up the new GeekFury.com store. It took longer than I would have liked, but it’s up now. Now onto the garden stuff… Okay, so this year, I’m doing a Square Foot Garden (SFG). And I’m pretty happy with it [...]

It’s that time of the year again…time I start getting Spring fever. Actually I’ve had Spring fever since early last Fall. It’s just within the last few weeks I’ve been able to actually do something about the “Fever” (…and the only cure is MORE Cowbell! ) At our old place I had built a raised [...]

I’m a huge fan of the TED Conference.  If you’re not familiar with it, it’s held in California usually for one week in February.  TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is a conference with the brightest scientists and artists who give you the gift of a vision that could possibly make your world amazing. Their tag line [...]

Today’s wind turbines are like race cars with one gear. Slow off the line and crippled at high speeds, the turbines are effective at generating electricity only within a sweet spot of moderate wind speeds. Scientists from Purdue University want to change this by creating intelligent wind turbines that shape-shift with the wind. These smart [...]

EcoWatercraft has developed a completely electric Jetski that produces no stinky exhaust fumes, no noise and it still hauls! Read the lively comment discussion on Treehugger.com

I’m flipping through the latest issue of Pop Sci (a favorite I might add) and I ran across an interesting full page ad. No it’s not one of those ads in the back of the mag promising better stiffies, more hair on the top my melon (I’m making bald look cool, thank you very much) [...]

Check out the cool, hand built home that Simon built for his family. It reminded me a lot of the Shire houses seen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The site has photos of the building process (always cool) and even plans of the house. Definately worth checking out, and maybe even one day [...]

Something that never occurred to me…using your hybrid car to feed power back into the power grid. Willett Kempton suggests that we can use our hybrid cars during the day to help smooth out spikes in the demand for power. Kempton parks a plug-in Toyota Scion in his garage that can discharge 19 kilowatts of [...]

Looks like there may be a new form of “hot rodder” in the near future. A guy in California has rigged his Toyota Prius hybrid car to squeeze even more gas mileage out of it. According to the article: “It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret [...]