Nissan is really trying to go full bore with its new Leaf electric car. It will allow you to go up to 100 miles on a single charge. But will people buy it?
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Yes, small and mighty. Lilliputian is trying to change the game on mobile powering. It’s not a surprise that today’s battery power systems stink. We just don’t have a great ways to store energy or regenerate. Lilliputian systems wants to step into that gap by providing a nifty little mobile power recharging system.
The amazing thing is that the cartridges are actually pretty cheap. It will cost you around $100-$200 dollars for the unit and cartridges will run between $1-$3. That’s a great deal considering that the cartridges could recharge a cell phone like 20 times. What a blessing for the world traveler!
It’s staggering how little has been done in solar and wind alternative energy. I think that shows just how apathetic we are when it comes to such ideas. However, some folks have recently come up with a pretty neat idea. It involves making solar cells that look like ivy, as you can see in the flash video above. But this is also a wind generator, as you will see.
The cells look interesting climbing up the side of a building, but they also generate solar power. The interesting twist is that each leaf also carries a piezoelectric generator on the backside. So, when the wind is blowing the leaves, it is generating electricity as well. SMIT_grow as the project is called, is currently producing a lower design, but is working to get this idea into production. I would love to see the energy generation facts on this as well as cost.
