Energy Planet Northwest

Just how efficient is the human equipment? If you were to  plug a human being into the wall and recharge them with a high  efficiency charger it would  take less than 2.5 kilowatts which would cost perhaps a quarter a day. So perhaps the "Matrix" is a solution. Please click on article title for more information.

Good news for the future of electric cars. Toyota has found that their electric car's batteries are lasting longer than suspected. Link to story.   

VRB a hopefull player in large electricity storage schemes files for bankruptcy.  Story

The search for cost effective longer lasting  batteries with higher  energy densities has brought us the lithium battery of late. Further, new battery maintenance technologies are increasing the service life of these items has doubled and quadruppled  the practical useful life of batteries.