According to Berkshireeagle.com:

GREAT BARRINGTON — Robert Kelly smiles when you call him a tinkerer. The evidence is plain to see.

Inside the kitchen of Kelly’s home, a converted school house built in the late 18th century, is a large island with a granite countertop that is located in the middle of the room.

“That was last year’s project,” Kelly says.

Outside his house are large piles of wood, fuel for the wood stove he plans to install. Walk over to the garage, and you’ll see Kelly’s latest project, one that took all summer.

An electric car…..Home-made

Read the full article at Berkshireeagle.com:

- This guy D.I.Y. himself an ELECTRIC Car!! How cool is that!? This is another example of great project for people to look forward to…

Electric car is great for countries that have cheap electricity or uses renewable energy…many people may be thinking of it but dare not start this project.

It’s about time someone shows how simple it is to convert a gas powered car to electric car….too bad this news don’t show the step by step instructions….on how to do it

According to AsiaOneNews:

ROME, ITALY – A GROUP of Italian biodiesel producers said on Wednesday they have begun a project to move away from using food crops for fuel by using seaweed instead.

Eight companies that already produce diesel from crops like maize and rapeseed are involved in the 10 million euro (S$20 million) project, which they hope will produce fuel from seaweed on a commercial basis within five years.

‘The initiative aims to substitute or integrate the raw material used today (cereals) with another which does not compete with crop cultivation,’ said Vice-President of Italy’s Union of Biodiesel Producers, Pier Giuseppe Polla.

The group said it is working with scientists at the University of Florence to choose a seaweed species that will be grown in plastic tubes of seawater and fed with carbon dioxide captured from thermal power stations.

The group said it expects to have established the process in two years and will begin building a plant at a coastal location, probably in southern Italy.

The plant should be producing diesel within five years from now.

Read the full article at AsiaOneNews

- Bio diesel from seaweed may be one way of creating free source of fuel but do remind them that these seaweed should not and CANNOT be cultivated in the sea as it may create “dead zones” where all the oxygen are used by the seaweed a night sucking the life out of the sea life.

If a river full of fishes are replaced with seaweed, the result is a gradual reduction of fishes and other sea creatures in the river’s “dead zones”.

This must be done in a specially created pond that is similar to a aquarium that required to be bubbled and fed with carbon dioxide in the day with great sunlight for proper photosynthesis to happen.

This may or may not replace the usage of oil totally but any percentage is welcome without disrupting the cost of food stuff. This is one of the “non-conventional” fuel that may make some profit when oil prices goes above certain price….

Watch out for more renewable energy over the horizon to spring out soon!

I had found one of these really neat DIY renewable project that is cheap to make and possible to enhance in the design to produce a much more electricity for free!!

This is a final project for the Design and Technology Major Studio class at Parsons The New School for Design done by mikejedw.

This project instruction is posted at instructables.com so that you can follow his examples and start creating renewable energy right away.

I will try to emulate his project as soon as possible when I finish another bottle of Pringles potato chips!! If possible, I hope to enhance it further to produce more electricity to charge my home sealed lead acid batteries to power my Eee-Pc mini-Notebook that uses only 9.5 volts.

This is simply amazing DIY guide for people who have the heart to build their own renewable energy.