All kinds of stuff that interests geeks.
Posted by: Shawn Pearson on February 25, 2010
Green Living, Organic Gardening
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 [...]
Posted by: Geekfury on May 28, 2009
Environmental Technology
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 wind [...]
Posted by: Geekfury on May 28, 2009
Hybrid Cars and Vehicles, Transportation
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
Tags: electric, Environment, jetski, Transportation, vehicle
Posted by: GeekFury on January 15, 2009
Environmental Technology, Transportation
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) [...]
Posted by: Geekfury on September 23, 2008
Green Living
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 [...]
Posted by: Geekfury on December 29, 2007
Hybrid Cars and Vehicles, Transportation
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 power [...]
Posted by: GeekFury on August 15, 2005
Environmental Technology, Transportation
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 – [...]
