Honda unveils several new green technologies at the Tokyo Motor Show

Honda showed off quite a bit of new tech at last week’s Tokyo Motor show, including an all-electric version of the compact Fit, and a series of new hybrid powertrains that Honda is calling EarthDreams. ? The new hybrid system will use two electric motors, which will let Honda build their first plug-in hybrid (PHEV) Related posts: Honda’s cool looking hybrid and electric cars to be shown at the Tokyo Motor Show Green Tech at the Frankfurt Motor Show Green Motors and Toyota at Tokyo

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Honda unveils several new green technologies at the Tokyo Motor Show

Why do questions from the “Green Living” section always get featured on the front page?

R asked: Why? I think I could post “How can I dispose of my farts greenly?” in the Green Living section and it would get featured, like every other question in that section. Its weird, has Yahoo become eco-fanatical or something? Water 4 Gas Read more on Why do questions from the “Green Living” section always get featured on the front page?… which is better wind energy or solar power energy

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Amazon works to reduce “wrap rage”

What’s wrap rage? It’s the feeling you get when you buy something and then have to wrestle with getting your new toy out of its packaging before you can use it. We’ve all been there – and, believe it or not, there are about 6,000 emergency room trips per year to take care Related posts: Solar Power 2006 wrap up from Heliotropic Meeting the demand for green packaging USA Today: States work to reduce global warming

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Transonic Combustion developing ultra-efficient gasoline engine

Transonic Combustion test vehicle and fuel injector Hybrids aren’t the only way to increase fuel economy and reduce emissions. A startup company based in Camarillo, CA – Transonic Combustion, has developed a new type of fuel injection system that they say can improve a gasoline engine’s efficiency by more than 50%. A recent test vehicle Related posts: Cyclone Power Technologies clean, green waste heat engine Mazda Developing a Rotary Hydrogen/Gasoline/Electric Hybrid The EnergyBlog – The Little Engine that Could

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Transonic Combustion developing ultra-efficient gasoline engine

Paper batteries using nanotubes and ink

Researchers at Stanford University have come up with a way to make ultra lightweight and flexible batteries and supercapacitors out of paper. All they had to do was coat a sheet of paper with special ink made out of carbon nanotubes and silver wires. The result is a highly conductive storage device that

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Spain rolls out its first solar bus stop

The Istituto Europeo di Design of Barcelona (a Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication University in Spain), the Entitat Metropolitan del Transport (the Spanish Transportation authority), and Capmar, S.L. (a Spanish company that produces urban furniture) have created and installed Spain’s first solar powered bus stop. The bus stop, which is totally self-sufficient, does a

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Spain rolls out its first solar bus stop

The green in the stimulus bill

If you’re curious about the alternative energy and environmental areas in the current version of the stimulus bill that’s now being debated in the US Senate, head on over to CNNMoney.com. Here’s a couple of tidbits – Conservation programs ($24 billion in the House version, $15 billion in the Senate) Public transporation ($13b House, $8.5b Senate) Power lines –

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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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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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The latest on the Cape Wind Nantucket Sound project