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Sepp Hasslberger: Deep Geothermal $1B = 100 Nuclear Plants But Clean and Safe

Deep Geothermal: The Untapped Energy Source Until now, geothermal technology has only been used on a small scale to produce power. But with major new projects now underway, deep geothermal systems may soon begin making a significant contribution to the world’s energy needs. Ultimately, thanks to unusually hot rock close to the surface and existing …

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Sepp Hasslberger Printing Solar Panels in the Backyard

Imagine what you might do if you could print your own solar panels. That’s kind of the dream behind Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein’s Solar Pocket Factory — although they see it more as the “microbrewery” of panel production rather than a tool for everyone’s garage. With over $70,000 of backing from a successful Kickstarter …

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Sepp Hasslberger: Hungarian Pre-Fab Homes Creates Twice the Energy It Consumes

Hungary’s Odooproject prefab home produces twice the amount of energy it consumes On the eve of the opening of the European Solar Decathlon, a team from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics is ready to present its innovative solar-powered prefab home, which produces twice the amount of energy than it consumes. The decathlon is …

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Sepp Hasslberger: Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (ET3)™

Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (ET3)™ WHY: Transportation is the master key to survival. A new mode of transportation (independent of diminishing fossil energy) is necessary to achieving an environmentally sustainable yet thriving economy in an urbanized world. WHAT: ET3™ is literally ‘Space Travel on Earth,’ a global transportation system that is silent, low cost, fast, …

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Sepp Hasslberger: The Most Important New Technology Since the Smart Phone Arrives December 2012 – Technology Review

The Most Important New Technology Since the Smart Phone Arrives December 2012 – Technology Review By now, many of us are aware of the Leap Motion, a small, $70 gesture control system that simply plugs into any computer and, apparently, just works. If you’ve seen the gesture interfaces in Minority Report, you know what it …

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Sepp Hasslberger: Solar Ice Maker: No Moving Parts, No Electricity

Solar Ice Maker: No Moving Parts, No Electricity “The tubing (or heat exchanger) is filled with a liquid refrigerant material. The reflective panel focuses light and heat energy from the sun onto the piping which vaporizes the refrigerant. So far, no ice. When the sun goes down however the vapor goes through massive heat loss …

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Sepp Hasslberger: Solid-State Hydrogen Powers Laptops

Novel fuel cell uses solid-state hydrogen to power laptops – Taipei Times The nation’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on Friday unveiled a portable fuel cell that is believed to be the first in the world to use solid-state hydrogen. The device combines solid-state hydrogen fuel, water and a catalyst in a bottle the size …

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