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Emissions Reduction
 What types of incentives will work in affluent countries to change the behaviors and purchasing decisions of motorists? What can convince them to choose a bicycle, a carpool, public transportation, or a highly fuel-efficient car? What systems or incentives will be palatable in capitalist and free societies? Conservation Science Institute supports investigating new technologies including the hydrosonic pump, pulsed abnormal glow discharge reactor, high-density plasma toroid in neutron tube, GeoExchange heat pump, Blacklight Power’s hydrino battery, high-density charge cluster device, electronically shaded photo-voltaic glass, hybrid cold fusion hydrogen reactor, gas-phase catalytic fusion, fiber-based cold fusion power cell, LUMELOID™light-polarizing photovoltaic thin film, LEPCON™ femto diode photovoltaic glass sheet, solid-state Quantum High-Energy Density Storage or Retrieval (QUENSOR™) battery, Davis tidal turbine, buried contact multijunction thin film solar cell, solar hydrogen producer, hydrogen tank, wind-solar hemisphere power station, nickel-iron battery, Hawking’s generator of cold electricity, Ukrainian capacitor-like battery, double-exposure flat-plate solar collector, low-temperature phase-change engine, Brown nuclear battery, hyper-cap E-converter, Clem over-unity vegetable-oil engine, aluminum-water fueled hydrogen producer, converter of zero-point electromagnetic radiation energy to electrical energy, water-fueled internal combustion engine with Garrett electrolytic carburetor, super-steam technology, noble gas plasma engine, Muller’s magnetic motor/generator, Tesla turbine combuster, metamatter for revolutionary energy sources and rocket engines, three versions of Casimer-effect self-charging battery, motionless electromagnetic generator, WIN zero point electrical energy converter, conversion of aluminum internal combustion engine  to magnetic motor, Searl effect generator, switched reluctance motor, Joe’s energy cell, 2-to-1 cylinder noble gas power plant, fuel-less Richardson generator, Richardson blade-less Tesla-type steam turbine, cold operating start technology for 100 miles/gallon automobiles, Boyce hydrogen carburetor, Q-cell, Russian electrochemical energy source, continuous charger for batteries – flux shifter, magnetically powered rotary unit, DiMatt Wankel closed-cycle freon/rotary turbine and generator, high-voltage injection of rain water into cold fog, compressed air-driven air conditioner/heater, portable power supply solar unit for hot water for Sterling engine, monocoque (unibody) basalt/carbon fiber foam body/frame for vehicles, low-temperature diamond or titanium nitride coating of vehicle parts, advanced Stirling cycle power unit, remediating nuclear waste with electron-captured protons resulting in significant net energy gain, fluid thrust diode, gas-generating BingoFuel Reactor, electric rocket, Brinsbury hydrogen steam rotary engine, SPARTEC vacuum triode amplifier, zero point energy modules, hydro-magnetic dynamo, gate impulse turbine, pressurized vapor driven rotary engine, self-restoring mechanical oscillator engine, energy buoyancy source, vapor generator, Edwin V. Gray’s pulsed capacitor discharge electric engine, advanced self-powered electric vehicle, flux capacitor, vortical energy, plasma biomass gasification, and metallurgical separation of hydrogen from water.
Power Walking
Humans have become increasingly dependent on mobile electronic devices from medical equipment and GPS instruments to cell phones. At present, all of these devices are powered by batteries, which have a limited energy storage capacity and add considerable weight. Given that we spend much of daily energy walking, finding a way to harvest that mechanical energy could offer a valuable alternative to powering our gadgets. In a Report in the 9 Sep 2005 *Science*, Rome et al.
( http://eloop.goldlasso.com/redir.php?s=3772&u=603683&f=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencemag.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F309%2F5741%2F1725 ) described a new backpack device that can do just that. The new backpack has a vertically moveable weight that rises about 5 centimeters with each step and then turns a gear connected to a generator as it falls. The mechanical energy from the vertical movement of the backpack's cargo can thus be converted to electricity during normal walking -- a load of 38 kilograms can
produce up to 7.4 watts of electricity. Although many refinements must be made, such an apparatus could generate power during journeys beyond the reach of power grids. As noted in an accompanying Perspective by A. D. Kuo
( http://eloop.goldlasso.com/redir.php?s=3772&u=603683&f=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencemag.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F309%2F5741%2F1686 ), the energy-harvesting backpack is novel because it generates useful amounts of electrical power while costing less metabolic energy than expected.
Energy-efficient low emission car.
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