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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Donald Woloz wants you to buy a product that he has not tested or even used. But the self-described marketing man, who has been lobbying for media coverage of his product, is convinced that you want and need the "Gas Cheater."
Woloz is among a growing herd of promoters who in newspaper ads and online are pushing various products they claim save gas and money amid soaring fuel costs.
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Sunday 29 June, 2008 02:14 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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MUNICH, Germany — Despite offering intensive engineering support to its customers, X-Fab Semiconductor Foundries AG (Erfurt, Germany) rejects business models that include product development on its own. Nevertheless, the company plans long-term growth, explains X-Fab CEO Hans-Jürgen Straub.
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Saturday 28 June, 2008 08:06 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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HONG KONG -China Technology Development Group Corporation , a provider of solar energy products and solutions in China focusing on a-Si thin-film technology, today announced that its current production line has successfully produced SnO2 base plates which meets the advanced specifications desired for commercial sales. The initial batch has already shipped to China Stream Fund Solar, a-Si thin-film modules producer in Jiangsu for pilot use. SnO2 base plates are key components of a-Si thin film PV products, and the success of this initiative marks an important step in CTDC's evolution and demonstrates strong progress since the initial testing was announced in May 2008.
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Saturday 28 June, 2008 04:04 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
Research by two Kansas State University scientists could help with the large-scale cultivation and manufacturing of oil-rich algae in oceans for biofuel.
K-State's Zhijian "Z.J." Pei, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, and Wenqiao "Wayne" Yuan, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering, have received a $98,560 Small Grant for Exploratory Research from the National Science Foundation to study solid carriers for manufacturing algae biofuels in the ocean.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 10:48 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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When GE's Energy division announced earlier this month that it had taken a majority interest in cadmium-telluride thin-film PV module start-up PrimeStar Solar, the Golden, CO-based company found itself on the solar manufacturing industry radar--and in this blog's crosshairs. Although not fully cloaked in stealth mode, the two-year-old firm hasn't shared much information about itself, starting with its detail-deficient Website.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 10:00 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
HOW do you make bikes greener and stop them being stolen at the same time?
You make them out of cardboard for £15.
And that's exactly what student Phil Bridge is doing.
Phil, from Heaton Moor, has already made a working prototype of the recyclable cardboard bike, as part of his product design degree at Sheffield Hallam University . He hopes that with further work it could revolutionise the way we use bikes.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 07:15 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
A two-day conference designed to encourage manufacturers to embrace sustainability wasn't even doable a decade ago, Birgit Klohs says.
Back then, sustainability was a concept embraced by few, and they were often "tree huggers" and environmental regulators that came "to tell you how to run your company and live with all those rules and regulations that they had," said Klohs, president and CEO of the Right Place Inc. in Grand Rapids.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 02:38 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
There's no doubt that many scientists are looking to nature for mechanical inspiration. This past spring we have seen robotic bugs, robo-fish, and perhaps even the promise of a robotic dolphin.
For its design of a robot for use inside pipes, the SINTEF ICT part of the SINTEF Group, a Norway-based technology research company, was inspired by snakes.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 04:44 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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Fluor Corporation announced today its polysilicon project in China for LDK Solar , the world-class solar wafer manufacturer, logged more than 2 million craft hours without a single safety incident effective through the end of April 2008. The LDK Polysilicon manufacturing facility, when complete, will be the largest polysilicon production facility of its kind in the world.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 10:06 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
A solar powered boat constructed by a group of mechanical engineering undergraduates from Imperial College London competes in Europe’s only solar-powered boat race today.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 08:40 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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Purdue University’s Clean Manufacturing Technology Institute at the Center for the Environment will offer free workshops to teach Indiana businesses ways to increase efficiency and reduce environmental impact.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:04 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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Purdue University’s Clean Manufacturing Technology Institute at the Center for the Environment will offer free workshops to teach Indiana businesses ways to increase efficiency and reduce environmental impact.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:02 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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France’s nuclear safety watchdog intends to “make an example” of the country's first reactor project in 20 years, amid concerns that many of the skills for building nuclear power stations may have been lost.
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Tuesday 24 June, 2008 02:50 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Your mission, should you decide to accept it : Direct the design of a carbon capture and storage system at a coal-burning power plant. Make sure it can bury 1 million tons of CO2 in the ground annually.
Here’s a big budget -– use it wisely. Here’s the regulatory manual –- don’t violate it. There’s the aquifer –- steer clear of it.
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Tuesday 24 June, 2008 02:55 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Fuels from agricultural waste and other futuristic feedstocks are often touted as the solution to the current food-vs.-energy dilemma.
But for these "second-generation" biofuels to become a reality, the U.S. cannot abandon controversial "first-generation" biofuels from corn and soybeans, according to several biofuel developers.
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Monday 23 June, 2008 02:12 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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LIVINGSTON | Drayton Pruitt, a Livingston attorney, is convinced that one possible answer to the nation's energy crisis lies with a material many people have never given a second thought.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 12:39 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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Evolution Solar Corp . has entered into negotiations to acquire a Hong Kong-based R&D and Procurement Company. Evolution Solar most recently announced its plans to develop alternative energy technologies using thin film solar panels.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 06:34 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Getting rid of garbage is a problem anywhere, but particularly at forward operating bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pair that with the constant need for fuel and the push for alternative energy sources, and you have the stuff of science fiction - the Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery, or TGER, which is already turning trash into energy at Camp Victory, Iraq.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 09:40 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
A US University is to study if people and their communities would be be healthier if they still got food from local farms?
The research team, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a grant to study the public health impact of moving toward a local, sustainable food system.
The team will establish a Gillings Innovation Laboratory (GIL) through the UNC School of Public Health. The project will be the eighth laboratory established through a generous gift to the School by Dennis and Joan Gillings.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 05:42 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
They call it "wind turbine in a box," a simple off-the-shelf but high-performance wind turbine.
The innovative wind turbine is the first major launch of a commercial product from the Grand Valley State University energy center in Muskegon. Plans are to sell the turbine at home improvement stores for less than $2,000 to homeowners who can use it to provide up to 20 percent of their electricity.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 12:22 PM |
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