# The Green Optimistic

> Publishing the best alternative energy and green-related news since 2008, with an optimistic hint.

The Green Optimistic is an independent publication covering renewable energy, electric vehicles, energy storage, sustainability, green technology and DIY energy projects. Founded in 2008. Content is free to read and may be cited with attribution and a link back to the source URL.

## Topics

- [Electric Vehicles](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/transportation/electric-vehicles/): 1498 articles
- [Solar Power](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/green-energy-2/solar-power/): 1356 articles
- [Climate Change](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/environment-2/climate-change-1/): 751 articles
- [Energy Storage](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/green-energy-2/batteries/): 685 articles
- [Pollution](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/environment-2/pollution-2/): 626 articles
- [Car industry](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/transportation/car-industry/): 579 articles
- [Green Policy](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/environment-2/green-policy-1/): 568 articles
- [Hydrogen Power](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/green-energy-2/hydrogen-power/): 497 articles
- [Green News](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/environment-2/green-news/): 484 articles
- [Hybrid vehicles](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/transportation/hybrid-vehicles/): 460 articles
- [Wind Power](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/green-energy-2/wind-power/): 398 articles
- [Energy news](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/category/green-energy-2/energy-news/): 373 articles

## Key articles

- [How to Build a Free Energy Magnetic Motor](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/free-energy-magnetic-motor-build/): Many have tried building a free energy-producing magnetic motor. I am seeing a lot  in my daily quest through alternative…
- [A REAL and WORKING Magnetic Motor Spinning Indefinitely](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/real-working-magnetic-motor/): Ok, I saw this on Gizmodo (unexpectedly), and despite the fact that I've been blogging for five years now I've…
- [How to Build a Free Energy Generator – The Mini Romag](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mini-romag-free-energy-generator-20080206/): The Mini Romag free energy generator from Magnetic Energy uses the principle of moving magnetic flow named "the magnetic current" for generating electrical power. According to Magnetic Energy this generator is able to produce 3.5 volts, 7A DC ( about 24 Watts ) of free electricity while its generate sufficient power to sustain itself...
- [Kandle Heeter – How to Heat Up Your Room Using a Candle](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/kandle-heeter/): Doyle Doss, a Northern California Inventor, has created a candle powered space heater. It sounds like science fiction, but it really is a simple and green energy device, that could save you a lot of money by only lighting a candle, in the long run. The CO2 output of a candle is too small to mention, and the materials that this device is made of are all here since the Earth exists.
- [Free Energy Generator – The Pinwheel Gravity Engine](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/free-energy-generator-gravity/): Pinwheels have been used for many things along history. One of the most interesting uses I've ever seen is making a pinwheel act as a free energy generator, powered by gravity.
- [Hydroelectric Generator: How to Build a Small One](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydroelectric-generator/): If you want to produce electricity using a river near your home, the best way you can do it is to build a small-scale hydroelectric generator. Often called as a low-impact hydro, micro-hydro or run-of-stream hydro generator, this system is not very hard to build.
- [How to Build a UFO-like Anti Gravity Spaceship](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/build-ufo-anti-gravity-spaceship/): Maybe the title's "antigravity spaceship" aim is too high (it's a long way 'till there), but Tesla, followed by other scientists…
- [Magnetic Generator for Sale – EBM 720](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/magnetic-generator-for-sale-ebm-720/): This project, developed in Budapest, Hungary is a free energy magnetic generator and it's ready for sale, as the video…
- [Daniel Dingel’s Working Water Powered Car](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/daniel-dingel-water-car/): This is a REAL car working with REAL water... through electrolysis. It seems that the re-mix of hydrogen and oxygen actually produces more energy than it takes to split them! Daniel Dingel from Philippines has made 100 motors work on water and wants to spread them to the world, so any country can reverse engineer it and make something better off it. It's really amazing how we were taught since kids that water only kills fire... not always!
- [Tom Bearden’s Free Energy Generator](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tom-bearden-generator/): Tom Bearden has invented and patented a free energy device called "MEG" (which stands for "Motionless Energy Generator"). This device…
- [Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles May Be the Future](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles-may-future-20140708/): While battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles may co-exist for some time, will one or the other dominate…
- [Japanese Car Runs Exclusively on Water!](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japanese-car-runs-exclusively-on-water-20080615/): The Japanese company Genepax has unveiled a car that runs exclusively on water. They even have a working prototype that was showed off in front of the press. They claim that using only one liter of water it can run with 80km/h.
- [Elon Musk’s “Hydrogen is BS” – Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Ten](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/elon-musk-hydrogen/): Elon Musk has a very bad opinion on hydrogen use in cars. He stated it in one of our interviews…
- [Nissan Leaf Lawsuit: New Battery Replacement for Unhappy Customers](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nissan-leaf-lawsuit-battery/): Just like it happened to many respectable automakers (see Toyota), in 2012 a class action lawsuit was targeted against Nissan…
- [Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Three – Hydrogen Fuel is Expensive](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fuel-cell-vehicle-myth-three-hydrogen-fuel-expensive-20140724/): If cost is a measure of how willing people are to get into alternative fuel vehicles, such as fuel cell…
- [Genepax (Japanese Water Car Company) Shut to Silence](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/genepax-japanese-water-car-company-shut-to-silence/): In June last year, everyone may have heard the buzz about a japanese water car. The buzz was about Genepax, a company from Japan who had claimed that they invented a revolutionary system that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen and then uses a fuel cell to recombine it and generate electricity. That electricity would have driven a car, fact that they demonstrated in front of the press at that time.
- [Very Efficient Vertical Wind Turbine Once Thought Impossible to Build](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/very-efficient-vertical-wind-turbine-once-thought-impossible-to-build-20090128/): As wind industry claimed that vertical turbines are ineffective, inventor Adam Fuller developed a project to prove this theory wrong.
- [How to Build a Backyard Biogas Plant](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-to-build-a-backyard-biogas-plant-20080314/): Introduction The success or failure of any biogas plant mainly depends upon the quality of how it is constructed. To…
- [Why Hydrogen Cars are Less Efficient Than Electrics](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrogen-cars-efficiency/): The efficiency of hydrogen cars versus battery electrics has been debated for a long time in the past decade. However,…
- [Who Killed The Electric Car? (full movie)](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/who-killed-the-electric-car/): The EV1 has been a dream that ended up quickly and painfully for everyone to forget it. Although it's an oldie, this movie shows the facts that stood behind the decision of not only shutting down the EV1 production line, but also destroying all of them altogether.
- [Solar Panel System: How to Build a Cheap One](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-panel-system/): A cheap solar panel system will forever be the best solution to expensive electric bills. Solar cells are getting cheaper each year.…
- [How to Build Chas Campbell’s Gravitational Engine](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chas-campbell-gravitational-engine/): There is a lot of talk about Chas Campbell's gravitational field invention, but for the beginning I will start with…
- [Friction Heater Gets Almost Free Energy From Wood – Iron Friction](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/friction-heater/): If this truly works (and I don't see why it shouldn't), it is the greatest home-produced energy discovery since the wheel has been founded. Lloyd Tanner uses an incredibly simple assembly of two 4x4 inch wood pieces, and an iron wheel spinning in between.
- [Prickly Pear Cactus Mucilage Removes Bacteria and Dirt from Water, Acting as Purifier](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/prickly-pear-cactus-water-purifier-20100429/): Norma Alcantar and her colleagues extracted the cactus's mucilage - the thick gum that the plant uses to store water, and mixed it with water to which they had added dirt (sediments and bacteria - Bacillus cereus).
- [Karpen’s Pile: A Battery That Produces Energy Continuously Since 1950 Exists in Romanian Museum](https://www.greenoptimistic.com/karpen-pile/): The "Dimitrie Leonida" National Technical Museum from Romania hosts a weird kind of battery. Built by Vasile Karpen, the pile is working uninterrupted for 60 years. "I admit it's also hard for me to advance the idea of an overunity generator without sounding ridiculous, even if the object exists," says Nicolae Diaconescu, engineer and director of the museum.

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