Cowl Design a Breath of Fresh Air

Posted by admin at 26 November 2010

Category: Energy, Environmental

Neville D'Herville with his FlueCube.

So why is it after all the money spent by consumers to replace older (less efficient , pollution-causing) wood burners, they are left with enforced products that perform in a lot of cases worse than what they had previously? The newer certified clean air wood burners report to have difficulty in lighting, let smoke out into the room when loading or lighting, take longer to get to their optimum heating capacity and still chunder out smoke into the atmosphere! Nelson inventor and electrical engineer Neville D’Herville from his experience in developing central heating systems in the… Read more

Another Dose of Kiwi Ingenuity – Energy Generation

Posted by admin at 11 November 2010

Category: Energy

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Could passing cars soon be generating electricity for shops and homes? Auckland company Enervate is looking to a Singapore shopping mall for further road-testing of its innovative technology to capture energy from passing vehicles. The company’s PowerTread system, in which tubes that are compressed by vehicles and pump hydraulic fluid to turn a turbine and generate electricity, has undergone extensive testing and simulation over the past three years. One PowerTread unit can capture enough energy from vehicles on a roadway to supply power to up to three typical New Zealand homes,… Read more

Sonic Resonance Boiler

Posted by admin at 20 October 2010

Category: Energy

http://www.merlib.org http://multimedia.stuff.co.nz/thepress/sonic/ The Press ( 30 January 2008 ) Peter Davey, a 92 year-old saxophone player, uses Resonance to boil water inexpensively. by Yvonne Martin HOT PROSPECT: Peter Davey, a 92-year-old Christchurch inventor and saxophone player, says he has used his love of music to come up with a device that boils water rapidly, in just the amount required. Inventor and saxophone player Peter Davey has come up with a device that he claims boils water in no time. He calls it the “sonic boiler” because he claims it uses the power… Read more

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