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DIY HACK – Modded handcrank flashlight powers phone!

Posted on February 28, 2007 by max

video://www.metacafe.com/watch/449950/use_a_flashlight_to_power_your/

Check out the simple handcrank powering a cellphone!

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Water Powered Batteries with MIT’s Walter Levin lessons

Posted on February 28, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PvIPgJGx0

This video proves that energy can be tranformed into a battery, perhaps confirming that it is possible to make a battery with a candle, lime, or potatoes.

Thanks gfcgamer!

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Interview with Area 51 Worker on UFOs

Posted on February 24, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxdvUXZz5XU

Wow, I just ran into this, check it out. Now UFOs seem very real…

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Sandstorms from China hits Korea

Posted on February 23, 2007 by max

Sandstorms hitting Korea from China has worsened over the last couple years. A Sandstorm can really make a city quicky sandy like the picture above. I remember living in Korea couple years ago but sandstorms weren’t as bad then. Due to China’s exponential growth of factories, pollution, and what not, Koreans are being killed and slaughtered by the mass sandy pollution.

“There is an increasing possibility that yellow dust will appear some time between Thursday night and Friday,” South Korea’s Meteorological Administra

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DIY – How to build BEAM Vibrobots

Posted on February 23, 2007 by max

If you haven’t checked out these funny looking really efficient vibrobots (which sounds funny too), make sure you do. They seems to run primarily on solar power and you can do a lot with it. (hopefully… :P)

In the current issue of MAKE (Vol. 8), I have a piece on

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Talented teen transforms cooking oil into fuel!

Posted on February 23, 2007 by max

Wow, this is good for our earth… We need more kids like this.

He happily admits he’s hopeless at school – but Steven Henderson is Tyneside’s very own oil baron.

Northumberland’s answer to JR Ewing has built his own oil refinery

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DIY – How to make a solar food dehydrator!

Posted on February 22, 2007 by max

Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own solar food dehydrator and get dried bananas like shown.

The idea of creating a hybrid, solar food dehydrator, that also adhered to as many of the principles of modern food dehydration as possible sounded excellent to me. The potential of using this old system in new ways can save both power and materials. The original goal was to produce a solar dehydrator that had an upfr

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Zaragoza Solar Hot Water System

Posted on February 19, 2007 by max

Check out this Zaragoza Solar hot water system used in a desert oasis town.  They also have lots of other cool stuff like the solar heating system for pools.

The complete solar hot water system involves heat exchange between three liquids:

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DIY HACK – Solar Powered Lawnmower

Posted on February 17, 2007 by max

 

Check out this solar powered lawnmower someone built in Humbolt County. Tight!

An electric lawnmower that utilizes solar power as an energy source will address a number of issues that standard internal combustion engine mowers do not. An electric lawnmower with a solar charger will be easier to use. There is no messy dangerous gasoline to deal with. It will eliminate those pesky trips to the gas station for fill-ups. Just plug

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Clock run on Mud power

Posted on February 17, 2007 by max

This clock literally runs on mud, awesome! You can get one for about 10 bucks.

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