CONTAINER HOMES

Mega recycling! Melt down an 8000 lbs steel cargo container, by using 8000 KWH of energy to create new steel beams. Think again! How about converting an 8000 lbs of steel box into a comfortable studio apartment by using only 400 KWH of electricity, which is only 5% of the energy needed to melt these shipping containers.

A cargo container measures about 8 feet in width, 40 feet in length and 9 feet in height.

Container homes is not some thing new, the hippie era and the caravan homes movement are the impressions of the modern history of container homes. Huge mobile carts served as homes to many immigrants pouring into America of late 17^th to early 18^th century.

Shores and harbors allover United States and other trading nations, are becoming dump sites for old retired shipping containers, as mentioned earlier, recycling these shipping containers is not only costly but also hazardous for the environment. Two or maybe more container can joined together to create a small house after hacking down similar wall and utilizing the hacked steel to create partitions and internal walls.

Container homes also need internal and at times external thermal padding and insulations to reduce external weather effects, 95% of external radiation can be prevented from entering container homes, if insulated effectively can prove to be extremely energy efficient. Large aluminum and glass panels as windows and sky lights reduce the need of artificial lighting during the day in these container homes. Solar reflecting paints on the outer surface of these container homes should reduce the need of air-conditioning by preventing sudden heating up, while heat absorbing paints and sky lighting should be able to harness energy passively and reduce the need of heating significantly. Container homes need internal insulation and padding to cover the curved steel walls this padding not only make them appealing but also contain the internal temperature. Many companies offer ready to fit kitchen and bathroom units ready for installation in these container homes.

One of the most significant qualities of container homes is that fact that steel is welded to steel to create structural shapes such as roofs, which makes it a strong load bearing structure to support any type of masses such as water containers, solar water geezers, photovoltaic panels and mini wind turbines. Container homes also offer flexibility when it comes to fixtures and duct installation.

With term container homes most of us think of Mobil homes, but this is not the case anymore as cargo containers are extremely solid structures thus container homes can be more then single story with bedrooms made out of containers placed on top of the containers serving as living rooms and kitchen on the ground.

Container homes can be a great solution for third world countries with housing problems. As creating cheap and low impact energy efficient housing societies can be created with sustainable homes created out of old shipping and cargo containers, provided with proper water and electric supplies. These cargo and shipping containers can also be converted into container workshops, warehouses and small scale factories which will result into cleaner coast lines and low-cost successful recycling. I found Wind Man two old containers dumped beside the train track at CANTT railway station, wind man wants to make a coffee shop out of them, while my eyes are stuck on the old train guard stall rusting out there I waana strike it as a balcony some where.

Extreme Hybrid SUV

With its dual energy storage system, using Lithium-Ion batteries along with ultra capacitors the new XH150 Extreme Hybrid SUV is the next big thing in hybrid car industry. . This 370 horsepower plug-in hybrid was built out of 2007 Saturn VUE with off-the shelf components over the period of 6 months. This Extreme Hybrid SUV touches 60 mps from 0 mph in just 11.6 seconds, thus beating its gas smoldering predecessor with a margin of 0.9 seconds. During hybrid mode, this Extreme Hybrid SUV, XH150 clocked a smoking 0-60 speed that rivals many sports cars @ 6.9 seconds.
The AFS Trinity Power Corporation researcher and manufacturer, calls XH150 Extreme Hybrid SUV world’s first zero-cost” hybrid car, and support there argument on the bases of the patent-pending technology which allows the vehicle to go electric during the first 40 miles. Calculation made on energy cost and saving for the XH150 Extreme Hybrid SUV show that the large sum of $40,000 for this zero-cost” hybrid car should recoup in 3-5years. Such cost saving capacity should make it an ideal vehicle to get financed.
AFS Trinity completed it 340 miles earth day tour to Washington with XH150 Extreme Hybrid SUV, and announced the plans for an extreme fleet of trucks, in order to cut the cost of fuel by 75%. We should be expecting the XH150 Extreme Hybrid SUV, in the market in another 2 years.

SOLAR POWERED MOTOR BIKE

This proto type solar bike with its elegant folding solar panels, looks straight out of science fiction movie. Sun red a Spanish automotive engineering company has developed this solar powered bike, with a top speed of 30 mph, sun red is claming a journey of 13 to 15 miles before another charge. It’s not a direct solar-power machine; the panels top up batteries when parked. This is because the panels fold up to give a large surface area (over 3 square meters), but fold down out of the way when the bike is on the go. Leave it in the sun, and when you get back to it you can fold up the panels and be on your way. The bike will be coming with a 6.4" LCD screen, for controls and functions. The 30 mph speed and the need of recharge after every 13 to 15 miles is quite disappointing and surely that got to improve, if Sun red wishes to launch this motor bike on commercial level. Yet this is one environment friendly machine that should be brought under consideration seriously