Library news 7/10/2008 edited by Martin Cole - Climate Technology Research Group

Perfect Motor Corp Claims 80% Efficiency in Turbocombustion Engine – Los Angeles company’s system is said to be able to generate the combustion force outside of the cylinder in a separate combustion chamber and then apply it directly to a rotor that is rotating around the engine constantly at the best possible pressure angle. (PESWiki; Sept. 30, 2008)

Human-Powered > As America Implodes, The Bike Industry Booms – The nation may be wracked by collapsing banks, foreclosed houses and a tanking economy, but there’s no sign anything’s amiss at Interbike, the bike industry’s annual trade show. In fact, it’s party time as a perfect storm of eco-conscious consumerism, health-conscious lifestyles and wallet-sapping gas prices conspires to get people out of cars and onto bikes — especially electric ones. (‘Wired; Sept. 26, 2008)

Solar > The South African Solar Challenge 2008 – An epic, two-week race in solar-powered cars through the length and breadth of South Africa. Teams will have to build their own cars, design their own engineering systems and race those same machines through the most demanding terrain that solar cars have ever seen. Sept. 26 – Oct. 8.

U.S. Government and Energy > Bailout plan bails out clean-energy sector – The massive U.S. financial bailout plan, signed into law Friday afternoon, renews existing tax credits for renewable energy and includes rebates for plug-in hybrid drivers.