BLUE INDY

Looks like INDY is getting into the electric car sharing business in addition to the bike sharing business.

It's a done deal.

They will be here for 15 years weather they are popular or not.

500 cars in 200 spots.

I like this one very much.

The first one is on Washington Street down by the Circle City mall.

There are also electric car recharge stations already around INDY and the WORLD.

PLUG SHARE

BLUE INDY

SELF POWERED PACEMAKER

Researchers have developed a piezoelectric generator to power a heart pacemaker.

A piezoelectric device turns the energy of movement into electricity.

The movements it captures can be very small movements, ones we don't even see or notice.

You may want to check out these things linked or not:

SELF POWERED PACEMAKER

GOOGLE PIZOELECTRIC

ENERGY HARVESTING

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PC FAN NEEDS NO JUICE

WILL RESEARCH FURTHER.

Couldn't this at least charge batteries or something?

OTHERS:

RUNS ITSELF AND DRILL PRESS w/o AC

MOTOR RUNS ITSELF

MOTOR GENERATES 150 VOLTS BY ITSELF

BLOOM BOX

SELF RUNNING 40KW GENERATOR

EFFICIENT SOLAR

EFFICIENT WIND TURBINE

METAL-AIR BATTERY

Metal-Air batteries allow this car to drive 1,000 miles on a charge.

It is the TIME RIGHT NOW that we need to make a FULL MOVE away from fossil fuel (gasoline).

It uses Aluminum, Air and Water.

A Zinc one is in the works.

METAL AIR BATTERY ARTICLE

DOE SUPPORTS HYDROGEN

Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC) announced that it has developed a low-cost,compact packaged-type hydrogen station to supply 70MPa hydrogen gas to fuel cell vehicles

Energy Department Announces $2 Million to Develop Supply Chain, Manufacturing Competitiveness Analysis for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies

 Please read the link below and all sub-links.

DOE spends $2M to help hydrogen happen 

Hydrogen is the end game as far as using a "fuel" in a car.

It is clean in it's use in the car.

The only "GOTCHA" is the energy used and pollution created in it's making, storing and transporting.

But it is much easier to control these things at a central location/plant than making each car have to burn a dirty fuel (gasoline) cleanly.

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Until we can go pure electricity, this is something we need to move to.

Other Links:

Don't let them tell you that hydrogen can be produced only one or two ways.

There are many ways.

If it weren't for greedy BIG BIZ, we would have never been burning oil to begin with.

Early cars used electricity and alcohol.

HYDROGEN ECONOMY

 

 

NITROGEN FILTER

I was wondering about NOx emissions in cars.

It seems to me that some type of in-line filter could be used to separate gases from each other.

The filter above is designed to capture Nitrogen.

Some work by absorbing, but I would favor a type that simply splits the gases up allowing use of whichever gas you choose and send the others elsewhere.

I think this might be also used to REMOVE nitrogen from the gas stream.

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I was working as a computer contractor at the JEEP/TRUCK ENGINEERING facility,  Instrumentation Department for Chrysler Corporation in Detroit back in 1992.

They were having serious NOx problems with the V-12 engine used in the new Dodge Viper car.

I suggested to an engineer co-worker of mine that they should use a Nitrogen  filter,

No Nitrogen  no NOx.

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Of course my idea went no further.

Links:

NOx is Nitrogen & Oxygen Mixed at High Temperatures
             Like in a car engine

NOx - Wikipedia

Nitrogen Membrane

Nitrogen Generator

MOVING AWAY FROM GASOLINE

Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

I heard on the news that INDY has moved to using compressed natural gas as a fuel to their service trucks.

This is good, in that they will be getting used to using a compressed gas as fuel.

We should be moving to:

1. E85 - Ethanol/Gasoline Blend  
2. Hydrogen
3. Electricity

As the things that power our vehicles and anything that has a motor of any sort.

Indiana should embrace using Ethyl Alcohol as a fuel as it can produce it's own.

Better to control the pollution at a central site rather than trying to make each auto non-polluting.

Hyundai, Toyota and Honda will be coming out with hydrogen powered fuel cell cars.

You may want to find out more about these vehicles.

Indiana has NO hydrogen fuel stations, but California will.

This is one change that I think will be good for everyone.

We spent the whole 20th century burning a dirty and nasty fuel.

Big Biz wants us to use fuels that they can "buy up" and control.

Some of the very first autos used electricity and alcohol to power them.

LINKS:
FUEL CELL:
HOW A FUEL CELL WORKS

AUTOS:
HYUNDAI TUCSON FUEL CELL
HONDA FUEL CELL CAR
TOYOTA FUEL CELL

TOYOTA'S 2015 FUEL CELL VECHICLE

TOYOTA'S FUEL CELL AMBITIONS

HYDROGEN POWERED CARS

HYDROGEN:

HYDROGEN VEHICLE

HYDROGEN ECONOMY

HYDROGEN FUEL CELL CAR PIX

E85:

E85 EXPLAINED

E85 - WIKI

ELECTRICITY:

ELECTRICITY

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFO - WIKI