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lightning power

Lightning Power For Energy, Time Travel Another Story

Lightning. It just goes about it's business—mocking us. We have always known there is potential there for an alternative energy source, but harnessing that power has proven difficult. However, an inventor names Steve LeRoy may be on the brink of changing all that with a device that generates lightning then harvests the resulting energy. The prototype can generate bolts 3-feet in length, but that is only enough electricity to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb for 20 minutes. However, LeRoy notes that a full-scale version has the potential to power 30,000 homes for a day with just one lightning bolt. Impressive. With that kind of juice you could easily get a Delorean traveling through time. [Buisnessweek via Sci Fi Tech]

7:20 PM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Sean Fallon
4,633 views, 19 comments

Latest by toyotaboy: I don't think the intention of this invention is to try to create energy by generating the lightning bolt, I think eventually it will be used to capture energy from natural weather (it's a little easier to test it when more »

back to the past

DeLorean Confirms: New Cars to Roll Out in '08

Just as we mentioned last month, the DeLorean sports car is indeed going back into production, and you won't even have to go back in time to get one of those vehicles so memorably featured in the science fiction movie Back to the Future. Our beloved blood brothers at Jalopnik spoke to one of the guys who's going to make this happen in 2008. More »

1:15 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Charlie White
32,114 views, 33 comments

Latest by giango: Does it come with the flux capacitor? :) Damn, I love to have this car! more »

back to the present

DeLorean Going Back Into Production

The DeLorean, the car from Back to the Future with the gull wing doors and gleaming stainless steel finish, has come back to the future, going into extremely limited production thanks to a group of greasemonkeys in Houston who like to refurbish cars. They have about 200 of the original DeLorean 2.8 L V-6 engines on hand, and will start making the cars from scratch next year. More »

8:50 AM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Charlie White
21,336 views, 44 comments

Latest by pjgradydelorean: PJ Grady is a family owned and operated business that has been located in West Sayville, New York since the early 1900's, when it was a Chevy dealership. PJ Grady is now solely dedicated to the preservation and restoration of more »

jiggawatts

The DeLorean Watch: It's Retro Time

As famous as the DeLorean car is, you've probably never heard of the DeLorean Time watch—and for good reason. John DeLorean made this garish silver DeLorean-esque monstrosity for the sole purpose of raising funds for him to build a new sports car, the DMC2. More »

10:00 PM on Wed May 2 2007
By Jason Chen
4,490 views, 16 comments

gadgets

Purdue University Develops Mr.Fusion, Finally

A team of scientists and researchers at Purdue have developed a fully functional Mr. Fusion. (For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, go rent Back to the Future II asap.) This tactical biorefinery can munch up food, paper and plastic garbage and turn it into energy. This machine was commissioned for the U.S. military (so don't expect it on top of your DeLorean anytime soon) for use in the field to create energy. It is roughly the size of a small moving van, so there is still some work that needs to be done to make it a little more functional. This biorefinery can supposedly produce 90-percent more energy than it consumes, which is a damn impressive feat. Next step: flying cars, hoverboards and self-drying clothing. –Travis Hudson More »

2:29 PM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Travis Hudson
2,218 views, 37 comments

Latest by Xenobiologista: @creatox: It makes more sense when you understand that a lot of scientists are closet pyros...I speak from personal experience. more »

mac mini

Top 5 Creative Uses for a Mac mini, Sort Of

TechEBlog's editors have put together a list of the top five creative uses for the somewhat underexposed Mac mini. While I suppose they're all creative, one of them is pretty useless, so it'd probably be more apt to call it the top four creative uses for the Mac Mini, since the word "use" implies that it has some sort of purpose. More »

6:05 PM on Sat Jan 20 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,942 views, 14 comments

gadgets

Back to the Future DeLorean Flux Capacitor on eBay

If you've got a DeLorean and a few extra hundred bucks lying around, get your bad self over to eBay and bid on this gorgeous flux capacitor. The seller/builder used real glass tubes, accurate to the one that appeared in Back to the Future and long out of production (i.e. rare), and the gold bases were machined out of aluminum to match the movie prop. It plugs into any car battery and is guaranteed to fit into a DeLorean. Oh, and there are no nasty strobe lights in this baby, only white LEDs that chase to the center. More »

11:31 AM on Fri May 5 2006
By gizmodo.com
6,835 views, 13 comments

Latest by Rooster: Wait wait wait, 49 bids means that there are at least 49 working Deloreans out there ... ! more »