Is a flying car in your future?

I’ll believe it when I see it, but there’s a company named Terrafugia, of Woburn, Mass., that’s building what they call “roadable aircraft”. Their vehicle, named that Transition, converts from a small airplane into a 2 seater car – after you land, you fold up the wings and drive to wherever you want to

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Plastic Solar Cells For Electronic Devices

Currently silicon-based solar cells are flooding the market. Industry pundits can foresee a hopeful future for low-cost, flexible solar cells. If we can make solar devices other than silicon based materials then they can be used for all sorts of applications beyond just the traditional solar panels on house rooftops. It will be Posted in: Batteries , Inventions , PhotoVoltaics , Solar Power

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Konarka’s plastic solar cells

Konarka’s Power Plastic Fortune magazine has a nice writeup on Konarka, a small compnay that’s created something they call Power Plastic, which is a new lightweight, flexible and cheap material that can be used as solar panels, both inside and outside. Right now, they’re selling small amounts of their Power Plastic to a company that puts

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The latest on the Cape Wind Nantucket Sound project

It’s been in the works for seven plus years, but in one of the Bush Administration’s last official acts, the Cape Wind offshore wind turbine project was given the go-ahead. The project, consisting of 130 wind turbines, could generate up to 75% of the region’s electricity needs. But there’s been furious behind

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