PowerTrekk Fuel Cell for Cyclists
// January 12th, 2012 // No Comments » // Cycling, Eco
This is pretty interesting — an eco-friendly power cell. This would be perfect for those endurance rides — both to ensure juice for those emergency call but also to keep your cell phone batteries topped off for GPS applications. I like to use RunKeeper Elite to allow friends and family to check in on my progress out on the road, and this would allow for the GPS to run on all day events with no worry for battery drain.
It could also be used to top off the Garmin 500 as well.
One of a local technology company’s products is hitting the mainstream consumer market. Research Triangle Park’s Cree, who specializes in solid state lighting products, now has one of their components featured on the Home Depot shelves (and web site). I love technology like this — looking to innovate in the spaces of energy efficiency, without compromising on reliability or quality of the light produced.
I love keeping up on bleeding edge, and just edge cases when it comes to new technologies within existing products — televisions, phones, computers and especially vehicles. This new all-electric vehicle from Nisssan, called The Leaf seems pretty cool. It’s the first mass-produced electric vehicle since General Motors’ EV1. The collection of batteries are beneath the floorboard, meaning passenger space is maximized and they say also helps in giving it a low center of gravity. Makes sense, and seems efficient, except for maybe replacement/servicing.
Kudos to SAS for continuing to push for more green power in the Raleigh-Durham area This second solar farm can produce enough power to light 200 homes. The tech geek in me loves this type of thing, and I’d love to setup our home with solar power. We’ve done easy eco stuff like switching to CFL bulbs wherever possible, and solar power would be the ultimate green for the home. But it’s going to take more companies like SAS and Google, setting stuff up to get the technology prices down. Maybe in our next home, we can at least supplement our grid power with solar.
