Techie secrets of the bike/trailer in this photo may be news for anyone who wants sufficient electric energy to get off the grid and has a small source of wind, solar or micro-hydro power to start with. And it’s news for electric bike enthusiasts. Tomorrow, Rob Matthies will demo Vancouver’s first solar e-bike. The news angle is that it’s also the world’s second e-bike with a constant-voltage converter; said to charge up even in the shade. Continue Reading
Electronic device to make home-power affordable?
Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences Internat’l Forum

Infinite Energy magazine’s editor Christy Frazier had asked me to write a report on the Space, Propulsion and Energy Sciences International Forum, held at the end of February and early March at the University of Maryland. Now, ready to publish, she sent me a link to the PDF of the article. Pictured at the left [...]
Continue reading...Recent comments, & my posts for past 5 years

Check out the interesting comments under many of my blogposts on ChangingPower.net. Today for instance George Wiseman replied to a commenter, and in his reply was a note about several people who make six-figure incomes by applying the information they got from one of his books — sometimes they give him credit in their literature, [...]
Continue reading...G. Wiseman shows-and-tells how he saves fuel

George Wiseman (shown here with some invention developed recently when he was consultant for an underwater exploration) is a fuel-saving whiz. His new YouTube video– a tour of what’s under the hood and inside his econo-car — will interest the researcher/tinkerer. His Eagle-Research sells the technologies he talks about. Wiseman is working on an [...]
Continue reading...Occupy innovation via open-sourcing
George Wiseman lives up to his name in regard to the wisdom of sharing. It’s not just a fine philosophy, it also provides income. Before the popularity of “open sourcing” business practices that produce free software and open hardware communities, he was already doing that type of sharing but calling it his patent-free philosophy. I [...]
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