Snowstorm – personal flying machine by NUS students

Snowstorm — personal flying machine by NUS students
Credit: Image courtesy of National University of Singapore

A team of eight engineering students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully built Singapore’s first personal flying machine, dubbed Snowstorm. Comprising an intricate design of motors, propellers and inflated landing gear set within a hexagonal frame, Snowstorm is an electric-powered aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing that can be controlled by a single person seated within it. The NUS team envisions this as a clean and simple way to realise our dreams of flying.

The personal flying machine was built over a one-year period, under the auspices of FrogWorks, a collaboration between NUS Faculty of Engineering’s Design-Centric Programme (DCP) and the University Scholars Programme (USP). FrogWorks engages students in the study, design and construction of clean leisure craft, a rapidly growing segment of green technology. Previous FrogWorks projects include the conversion of a sport motorcycle and a…

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World’s richest 10% produce 50% of CO2 Shit!

Narendra Modi has done well to stand up to the US & the tiny European Countries bulling larger Asian, Arab and African nations to submit to their demand of abandoning cheap and abundant energy like COAL, GAS & OIL.

For countries like China and India the availability of coal as an energy source is not only cheap but also abundant which they cannot do without. Developing Countries cannot do without coal  until the day comes when the AVAILABILITY of renewable energy is as cheap and as abundant as COAL. The fact is renewable energy like solar panels, wind turbines and their energy plants have become cheaper to build, operate and maintain. But as of now although the price of Renewable Energy is low… the availability is NO WHERE NEAR ABUNDANT. Ways and means of incorporating renewable energy into our daily life are still being considered, planned and designed. Possibly 10 yrs down the developing countries might reach a point where the developed countries are today having installed sufficient Renewable Energy systems to pledge to do away with Coal and all Fossil Fuels.

Oxfam published the numbers as negotiators from 195 countries met in Paris to wrangle over a climate rescue pact.

The richest 10 per cent of people produce half of Earth’s climate-harming fossil-fuel emissions, while the poorest half contribute a mere 10 per cent, British charity said in a study released today.

Oxfam published the numbers as negotiators from 195 countries met in Paris to wrangle over a climate rescue pact.

Disputes over how to share responsibility for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and… Continue reading

HomeBioGas

An Israeli startup is looking to help families turn their food scraps into cooking gas. HomeBioGas Ltd has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring a compact biogas converter to urban and rural areas in developed countries, and to underserved communities in developing countries. According to the company, the HomeBiogas system can turn kitchen leftovers and livestock manure into natural liquid fertilizer and clean gas for cooking, lighting and water heating.

The HomeBiogas system is shipped in a box for DIY setup. According to the founders, two people can assemble the digester in about 2-3 hours, although the gas pipe needs to be connected to the Continue reading

Holes in Peter Mukerjea’s Story

Since Peter & his family story is quite electric… let us at PlugInCaroo lay it bare… It seems like Peter & Indrani had planned this murder through and through… possibly had even handwritten instructions on what to do if things went wrong… how one person must not lead the police to another person. Which is why Indrani said Peter is innocent when he was arrested. Which is why both Peter & Mikhale reiterated that there is NO MONEY ANGLE… The fact is there is money at the end of the trail… Money so big that they dare to kill people… or their own. Greed for money has always been the reason for unhappiness….

Let us check out what were Peter’s statements and stance during the entire investigation:

  1. First of all he gave himself an alibi. The common thing criminals do… either going for a movie or taking care of kids. Being at a party or meeting. Being out of the country is the safest way. Doesn’t matter if he made arrangements to book her car even though there are so many Call Taxi like MeruCabs which was very well established in 2012 and he was talking to Indrani on her phone before, DURING and after committing the crime.
  2. The faithful Driver in question was sourced from… Continue reading

Electric ATV

Electric All Terrain Vehicles (ATV) are a rather unexplored terrain… but it is an exciting range of vehicles… for which (as they are below 35kmph speed) there need no licence, or permit, or certifications required. Excellent space for budding startup entrepreneurs…

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Electric Lawn Mower

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Energy World Qatar

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Visited the Energy World Qatar expo in Doha, Qatar going on from 18 to 28 November 2015. An awesome display of information regarding Science and Energy aimed towards the kids and people. What was interesting was while people were having a great time playing with different equipments they were also learning the science behind it. Even the parents were enjoying themselves. Qatar should seriously consider setting a building for this kind of stuff. Wonder why no Schools were invited to attend the Expo? Most of the volunteers were very active and enjoying distributing information.

It started off with a short Movie show which explained the resource crunch that the world will experience in the coming years not on one front but on 3 fronts – ENERGY, WATER and FOOD. The world will be screaming for these three as more… Continue reading

Toyota Mirai – The Fuel Cell Car

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Early adopters pay for the privilege of having the latest technology. That will certainly be true for the dozen UK customers who will take delivery of a new Toyota Mirai by the end of the year. Buying one outright will mean laying out an eye-watering £66,000 for the mid-sized fuel cell hybrid—more than twice the price of the similarly-sized, but utterly conventional, Toyota Avensis saloon. Most Mirai customers will probably opt for a… Continue reading

INTERSOLAR INDIA 2015 STARTING IN A WEEK

Intersolar Mumbai 18-80 November 2015

Intersolar Mumbai 18-80 November 2015

Government, Tax and Oil… the happy nexus!

You hear a lot of talk about the Government setting up targets for Electric Vehicles and the so called not too famous FAME scheme for faster adoption of Electric vehicles. But you dont see any action on the ground. You dont see any company coming forward to create electric cars, nor do you see the government placing any orders for Electric Bus or Cars. No we are not talking about “Pilot Projects” which are… Continue reading