Pedal Power Dynapod
| CO2 hits new peaks, no sign global crisis causing dip OSLO (Reuters) - Atmospheric levels of the main greenhouse gas are hitting new highs, with no sign yet that the world economic downturn is curbing industrial emissions, a leading scientist said on Thursday. “The rise is in line with the long-term trend,” Kim Holmen, research director at the Norwegian Polar Institute, said of the measurements taken by a Stockholm University project on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard off north Norway. |
| ‘Dirty’ oil potential source of friction as Obama heads to Canada to discuss clean energy. When President Barack Obama lands Thursday in Canada for his first foreign visit as the nation’s chief executive, his pledge to wean Americans off “dirty” oil will collide with the host country’s aggressive push to send even more crude to the U.S. |
Future Perspectives for Renewable Energy in India India is facing an acute energy scarcity which is hampering its industrial growth and economic progress. Setting up of new power plants is inevitably dependent on import of highly volatile fossil fuels. Thus, it is essential to tackle the energy crisis through judicious utilization of abundant the renewable energy resources, such as biomass energy, [.]Posted in: Economy, Industry, Politics |
Pedal Power Dynapod A dynapod is a stationary pedal-powered device. The word ‘Dynapod’ comes from the Greek words for power and foot. The dynapod can be attached to any kind of device or tool and used to generate power for a multitude of activities. The first design for this type of unit was introduced in 1968.Although it was [.]Posted in: Human Power, Pedal Power |
| New York must prepare for global warming, mayors panel says. New York City must prepare for higher temperatures, more rain, and an increased risk of coastal flooding in the coming decades as a result of global climate change, an advisory panel said on Tuesday. |
| World Bank warns of climate change in Andes. Global climate change threatens the complete disappearance of the Andes’ tropical glaciers within the next 20 years, putting precious water, energy and food sources at risk, according to a World Bank report presented in Lima Tuesday. |
Cars of Tomorrow With Energy-Saving Technology Automobiles companies are on the lookout to manufacture tomorrow’s car. They want to minimize the disadvantages of the today’s hybrid cars and capitalize on its positive features. Mechanical and electrical engineers at DaimlerChrysler, General Motors and BMW are jointly making an effort in this direction. They want to roll out a tomorrow’s car [.]Posted in: Future Energy, Hybrid Cars, Transportation |
| North Atlantic is world’s ‘climate superpower’ IF EVER there was a superpower of the oceans, the North Atlantic, with its ability to control global weather systems, is it. The bad news is that this region also happens to be especially sensitive to the effects of climate change, so what is happening there could affect the world. The planet’s climate goes through periodic convulsions that affect every region simultaneously. The most recent were in the early 1940s and mid-1970s. The latter coincided with the start of more frequent El Niño events in the Pacific and a strong global warming trend. |
| New Record Solar Cell 41.1% Efficient Solar Cell Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have achieved a record efficiency of 41.1% for the conversion of sunlight into electricity. Using concentrated sunlight focused onto a small 5 mm |