Archive for June, 2006

Supermarket Coolers Used To Heat Building

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Grocery stores are exploring a new technology that allows heat capture from the energy used to run their food coolers. This is for serious energy creation and completely eliminates the heating source, (even in very cold weather). This significantly reduces the energy and puts cash directly in the business owners pocket. While this isn’t an alternative energy source, this is an example of creative thinking to solve a problem and profit from it. If you are interested in learning how to think creatively; go to the following idea creation website to learn how this works. If you want to read more about this technology, take a look at the rest of this post here. (more…)

Hybrid Vehicles Cost Effective Only If Tax Break Provided

Thursday, June 8th, 2006
 

The following article reports that Convential Vehicles are still cheaper than a Hybrid vehicle. But it is encouraging that the early adopters of the hybrid vehicle technology are driving up demand, volume and as a result lowering the price and increasing public awareness.

Some of the current available hybrid automobiles are the Toyota Camry Hybrid, the Ford Escape Hybrid, the Lexus Hybrid, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Saturn Vue Hybrid. By creating a vehicle for markets such as Hybrid Mini Van, Hybrid SUV, Hybrid Truck, and Hybrid Bicycle; the consumer will have many choices to purchase the hybrid automobile that works for their application.

The extra cost for choosing the Hybrid vehicle is (more…)

Residential Wind Power Canada - Home Wind Power For Cheap

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Just saw an episode of “How Things Are Made” on the Discovery channel. They did a profile on a company that makes an inexpensive wind power generator. The components are rather simple, low tech, but it wouldn’t take much for a home owner with the right location to create a wind power company for their neighbours. This system can easily be paired with a solar system to create a “solar wind power” solution. And because the solution is coming Canada, the price is cheaper than buying in the US. I think the Wind Power Canada solution runs around $1,200 Canadian. On the companies site they even have a little diagram to… (more…)