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Christmas Windmill
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I wish to you, your friends and family a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year full of new energy!

Wired on Google Solar Trees

Google is starting to plant Solar Trees.

On Wired you can find some nice pictures of them.

(Image by Wired.)

Is hydrogen useless?

A Slashdot posting tells us that Hydrogen won't save the economy?

Won't it? I'm not so sure... As we in Belgium doesn't have oil or other traditional energy sources, we'll have to generate our energy from wind, sun, water & maybe others. As we have enough water over here to make Hydrogen, that can't be the problem. Even if there are some efficiency and cost problems at the moment, technology will evolve like it did always and those problems will be solved...

So my conclusion is that Hydrogen will be used in the energy provisioning of the future. The Slashdot article is too pesimistic imo.

What do you think?

Yet an other way to produce hydrogen: solar cells.

Hydrogen is hot at the moment. Now some scientists have found a way to directly produce hydrogen in solar cells. An other step closer to future provisioning of hydrogen.

Read more here.

Can hydrogen be produced by biotech?

An new way to produce hydrogen has been made in labs Science Daily reports.
Hydrogen could be produced by genetically manipulated molecules. This offers great new perspectives for future energy applications.

Hat tip to the Combining the Sphere blog.

A present for the holidays?

The Components-n-materials blog reports about H-Racer.
A small hydrogen powered car. Looks great...
Click here if you want to order it.

Cradle-to-cradle

I just read about the architect William A. McDonough.

He's the inventor of the Cradle-to-cradle concept.
Although this isn't about energy in the narrow sense, it's about waste turning into food for the bio- or technosphere, energy certainly is a major aspect of his work.

Checkout his website.

Wave Powered Desalination

Slashdots reports about a technology that makes waves power desalination installations. This could be a great technology as one of the solutions for water shortage.

Read more over here.

The future of hydrogen...

Will hydrogen first power lawnmowers and only a lot later cars and other transportation?
Join the discussion on Wired.

Solar plastic is coming...

Cheap solar cells, called Solar plastic, will be printed.
They will enable all kind of devices, portables, mp3 players, mobile phones, etc., to recharge on the sun.

Read more on Wired.

How cows can be important for the future of energy...

Read this interesting story on CNN.

Power your iPod with the Sun!

Sanyo just released a device that is capable of charging all kinds of USB Devices. It seems to load a bit slow, but anyway great gadget that's showing us the way to the energy of the future....

More on Engadget.

Venturi launches first commercial solar powered car

Venturi will soon launch the first commercial solar powered car: the Astrolab.
Read more on the Venturi Website.
Or on Mobilewhack.

An new search engine on new energy is born!

A customised search engine on Alternative Energy has been born. It is powered by Google.

http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=001404921478984617399%3A18dyebbnzue

Do you want to add your site too? Or do you want to co-operate on this engine? Please leave me a note!

EnerAge has plans for a hydrocarbon fuel cell to power e.g. your notebook.

Enerage plans a highly flexibel fuel cell to be released in early 2007.
It would have a high range of usabilities e.g. also powering notebooks.

Read more on C|Net News.com.
Read more on Engadget.

Is this really the future? It's working on old fuel products.
It's also a problem for the environment e.g. with the production of CO2.

Could such fuel cells be build based on H2?
Please give your feedback in the comments...

Other Stories on Solar Power & Google

You find them on:

• NPR
  
• Whittier Daily News
• AltEng Blog
  

Do you know others? Please let them know to the world via Comments.

Google creates largest Solar Power plant in the US

Google will add solar technology to the roofs of the famous Googleplex in Mountanview, CA.
This will create the biggest solar power driven campus in the US.

More on this:

• On Reuters
  
• On the Official Google Blog

H2PIA

I just discovered this interesting project.

It's a plan to build a city in Danmark that is provided from energy by Hydrogen. Hydrogen will be created by surplus production of Wind & Solar Energy.

There sure are a lot of problems that have to be dealed with. One of the things I directly thought about. How will those hydrogen cars make long trips? Will the habitants have to change their cars for traditional ones to make those trips, etc.

Still it stays in innovative project. As I can read from the website, there are only plans at the moments and no concrete actions planned for the short term to realise this... Maybe one of the problems is how to finance such a project...

I wished that such kind of projects were also possible here in Flanders, as I am sure that such kind of projects deliver lots of practical knowledge about future technology. It certainly will give those danish companies an advantage of the rest of the world... An advantage that will become a great economical asset.

Google and Energy Savings

Another passion of me is Google.

Google has developped energy saving technology for the masses of servers in its datacenters. Google is now offering this technology to server & pc builders.

You find more here on this story.

(Of course energy savings will also be an important topic in this blog.)

Another blog on energy...

I just came by this blogs: Alternative Energy Blog and a list of interesting energy blogs. (Maybe this blog will once be added too ;-) ). I'll keep an eye on it and if interesting, I'll post the information overhere too.

Do you know other interesting information sources? Please let them know to the world in the comments section of this blog!

Welcome!

Welcome, to my new blog!

I wanted to call this blog: 'Future of Energy'. But it seems somebody has already taken this blog name, although it's not very active for the moment. If you are the owner of this blog, please feel free to leave a comment with your contact information. Maybe we can co-operate on some stuff.

As the initial blog name was already taken, I had to think of an other name and so I came up with the name Energy2Come. In fact it means the same of 'Future of Energy', but maybe the name looks a bit more flashy now.

Why did I create this new blog?

It's already a long time that I'm interested in all kinds of Energy Technology. To make it clear, I'm not at all an technology expert, I'm just enormously interested in this technology and I want to learn a lot about this. This is one of the main reasons of this blog. The blog is aimed to be an interactive forum, not a place to publish my expertise, so please give me feedback in the comments section. Any good comments will be picked up again in the blog too!

The blog is written in English because I want to reach a public as broad as possible. If I would write in my native tongue (Dutch) the audience would be a lot smaller. And as most Flemish people speak also a little bit of English, I suppose this can't be a problem.

As written in the description of this blog, this blog will cover global topics with snippets of information I view on the web and in literature, but it will also cover the energy topic in the region of Brugge (Belgium). This is the city where I live and where a lot of possibilities are available concerning future Energy Technology. This can be read in the report 'Brugge 2015-2025: Een toekomstvisie!' by Junior Chamber International Brugge (JCI). It's written in Dutch.

The energy provisioning will be more and more difficult in the future, I don't need to tell this I think. But this problem gives also a lot of opportunities for new companies and for new technologies. That is what thrills me so much, this is why I want to build this blog...

Do you have any feedback? Please write a comment to let me now! Thanks a lot!