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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.
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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 [...]

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) [...]

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 – [...]