Welcome to the first world tour of a vehicle powered only by solar energy!
From Whangarei to Auckland13.01.2008
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We received a great welcome by Ulrich Schmid and his brother Klaus in Whangarei. Ulrich is the Biodiesel pioneer of New Zealand. He's getting old fats and oils from local restaurants and makes biodiesel out of it to power his cars in Whangarei. One of his cars is a Toyota Land Cruiser... it is powered completly climate neutral, for a price of about 40 NZcents/liter instead of 1.30 for a liter of diesel.
We also met his brother Klaus from Canada. He's the inventor of the helix hydrogen turbine. "For converting hydrogen into electricity, everybody talkjs about the fuel cell. But fuel cells have an efficiency of below 40 % at the moment. My hydrogen turbine could have 61.5 % efficiency. I want to show it at the inventor's show next March in Geneva!" he says.
by: alan hillier
08.02.2008 10:02
Hello,
Can you help us,on the 12.2.08 we wish to go from Aucklad to Zion Park and back to Auckand. If posable can you give us a cost for the trip.
Thanks
alan & Brenda