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Dallas, TX – (Market Wire) – May 15, 2007. Central Freight Lines, Inc. is a leading LTL carrier and one of the largest intrastate carriers in Texas. With 65 terminals, a great environment for Company and Owner Operator Drivers, and over 80 years of experience in the business, Central Freight sets its goals high and [...]
The worlds first commercial air-powered vehicle is rolling towards the production line. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, will be built by Indias largest automaker. The Air Car uses compressed air to push its engines pistons. It is anticipated that approximately 6000 Air Cars will be cruising the [...]
A backpack that recharges your gadgets isn’t even news anymore, but what if it could also turn into a bike? Frag Woodall, a student of University of Technology Sydney, has designed a backpack, called the Everglide, that amazingly is a backpack bike than can charge your iPod. The backpack can be carried normally, wheeled like [...]
Yet another EcoGeek 3 wheel wonder, the Aerorider is the ultimate single seat hybrid: sensational, comfortable, sporty and relaxing. The Aerorider is a hybrid – human and electric powered vehicle that can achieve 45km/h (28 mph) cruise and the ability to overcome hills without breaking into a sweat. The single bucket seat supports your entire [...]
Intel has recently announced that their newest chips (and all future chips) are going to be lead-free. And this is not 99.99% (like we see for batteries and some other applications for various materials) but 100% lead free. Intel on Tuesday said its future microprocessors will be lead free, a move that coincides with the [...]
Using hydrogen as a vehicle fuel is one of the possible solutions being touted as a replacement for oil-based fuels. Hydrogen fueled vehicles would be preferable because their emissions are merely water vapor, rather than CO2. But carrying around hydrogen in fuel tanks makes people twitchy. And there is no national infrastructure to distribute hydrogen [...]
It’s amazing the difference good design can make. Yeah, those stupid little lawn lights we see all around nowadays are solar powered. But they’re not very attractive or versatile. Which is why we love The Corona. The Corona is very attractive and can do pretty much anything. They can be staked into a lawn, hung [...]
The developing world is leapfrogging us again! First they skipped the land-line step, opting for inexpensive and less infrastructure-dependent mobile phones, now it looks like they’re eschewing cables completely and opting for distributed sources of electricity. Motorola has created a pilot project in Nambia that will power cell towers using solar and wind energy. This, [...]
This $100 Kenyan bike engine quickly converts any bicycle to a 100 mpg motorbike. It might not be the most efficient engine, or the cleanest. But as the world develops, simple solutions like these are necessary to make the world a better place for people, without upsetting the balance of the environment. Via Afrigadget
Based on the Ariel Atom and utilizing next-generation battery materials (of course meaning: no further details available), the Wrightspeed X1 plug-in hybrid will set you back $120,000. The batteries alone cost more than double that used Prius you’ve had your eye on. But a 0-60 time better than any other production street car under $1,000,000 [...]
Remember when the military was on the fore-front of innovation? When what we did at war pulled the world into the future? I’m not saying that war was ever good…I’m just saying that it used to be a lot smarter. Which is why it’s nice to see the US Army actually considering energy efficiency when [...]
In Eastern Kenya the four Ututu brothers inherited a large area of fertile farmland, which had been terraced by their father in the late 1950s. Despite this resource, they were experiencing problems because they lacked water both for drinking (meaning wasted time, fetching water from 9 miles away in the dry season) and for irrigation. [...]