April 20, 2010

5 Inventions that will "SAVE THE EARTH...".

From harnessing the power that fuels yhe sun, to little black boxes of wonder; we look at 5 inventions from the cutting edge of green technology that could one day "save our planet"

*Bloombox
let's take a look how it works....Unlike energy produced by combustion,fuel cell produce energy by chemical reaction.A fuel(usually hydrogen) and an oxidant is pumped into a fuel cell which contains an electrolyte.A chemical reaction occurs that results into creation of electricity,water and some amount of carbon dioxide as byproducts."eBay is reportedly using the 100 kilowatt boxes for powering 15% of its headquarters".

*Solar power water desalination"People can live without lights on air conditioner or an ipod but they can't survive without water".
97% of all water on earth is sea water and unusable for drinking. The company named "Saltwork technologies" fron vancouer, canada come up with Thermo-ionic technology that can make cheap drinking water from sea using evaporation and ionic conductance,powered mainly by sunlight.


*High altitude wind generation
One of the most promising source and relatively untapped is Wind.Magenn Power is making strides in this sphere.
Magenn Power is has developed a high altitude wind turbine system called MARS-short for Magenn Air Rotor System. It's essentially a flying turbine in form of large baloon which spins high altitudes generating power. The electrical energy is transferred 100 foot tether for immediate use.


*Laser fusion possibilitiesInertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a process where nuclear fusion reactions are initiated by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium.ICF is one of two major branches of fusion energy research, the other being magnetic confinement fusion.

*Cold fusion to heat things up
Cold fusion refers to nuclear fusion of atoms at conditions close to room temperature, in contrast to the conditions of well-understood fusion reactions such as those inside stars and high energy experiments.Cold fusion remains that unattainable goal.

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