If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!X-Prize Foundation and Progressive Insurance have teamed up to create a new program aptly named Progressive Automotive X Prize. The Progressive Automotive X Prize is a competition to create the next generation, super fuel efficient vehicle. It is open [...]
Progressive Automotive X Prize competition $10,000,000 prize purse
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Environment, GreenTech, Transportation
Tags: ansari x prize·Innovation·progressive automotive x prize·x prize
Humpback Whale inspired fan blades
March 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Environment, GreenTech, Inspiration, Nature
Picture by Tannis Toohey/Toronto StarWhalePower Corp. is a Toronto based company who with the help of nature has developed a more efficient fan blade. Scientists in the US have long studied whales and found that the tubercles on the Humpback Whales fins create 32% less drag and 8% more lift then the smooth fins found [...]
Tags: blade design·humpback whales·Innovation·Inspiration·tubercles·wind turbines
Chrysler getting greener?
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Environment, Going Green, GreenTech, Recycling
At Chrysler’s St. Louis Assembly Plant in Missouri Chrysler is putting paint over spray to work in an innovative and green way. The paint over spray is collected by a pool of water under the paint booth. The water is then drained leaving behind mush of paint over spray that is loaded into a truck [...]
