http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran A Solar Hybrid Trimaran Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:36:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein. The TRYBRID Project will deliver a technology demonstrator for the new energy agenda that has never before been seen: a project that will for the first time, close the loop on ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/06/21/hello-world/ "The only real valuable thing is intuition." Albert Einstein. The TYBRID project is investigating the use of natural gas to make hydrogen for two purposes, one simply to use the pure hydrogen to power a fuel cell, and a second purpose of firing up the diesels with a mixture of ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/06/19/natural-gashydrogen-cleans-up-diesel-engines-and-feeds-fuel-cells/ The 17th World Hydrogen Energy Conference was held Brisbane, Australia, from June 15 to 19, 2008. At the same time, filming for a documentary, tracking the progress of the TRYBRID project, commenced, with 5 hours of footage shot , collating the most up to date expression of expert ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/06/19/trybrid-doco-kicks-in-at-world-hyrogen-conference/ TRYBRID's new found energy appetite, with the shift away from limited battery storage, to the more energy intense hydrogen storage, has created a re-think of the project's capacity to make electricity from photovoltaic solar arrays. We have now added in awnings and trampolines covered in added photovoltaic cells. With say ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/06/06/boost-the-sunshine-power-for-hungry-hydrogen-manaufacture/ It's windy out, there on the world oceans. No inconvenient mountains or trees diminish the wind's power out on the big blue. But most of a boats life is at anchor, moored up, where the wind still blows. But unlike sailors battling flapping headsails in the middle of the night, ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/06/05/wind-power-added/ The TRYBRIB project shares many of the aims of the educational programs embodied in the Solar Boat Challenge and its sister program, the Hydrogen Car Challenge. Both these Australian schools programs aim to bring awareness, in a DYI experiential way, that is introducing the solar and hydrogen agendas to ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/06/04/trybrid-partners-with-educational-programsolar-boat-and-hydrogen-car-challenge/ The process of designing a boat that is not much like anything that proceeds it, takes degree of imagination that the new software in 3D development makes much more accessible an engaging. The general layout drawings ( in many editions) were evolved in a 2D format, but ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/05/29/3d-design-advances/ It had to happen sooner or later. Batteries just won't cut it. When you have a perpetual incoming stream of photovoltaic power, with nowhere to go after you have filled the batteries, some serious naval gazing was inevitable. We already have an electric powered boat, ready for a hydrogen ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/05/11/trybrid-goes-hydrogen/ There is not much point in designing one of the world's leading, new energy platforms, unless the platform itself is at the cutting edge, in this case, of international naval architectural design. Australia boasts being the world's leader in fast ferry design, and the designer in Australia with the ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/05/07/naval-architects-weave-their-123-magic/ The Trybrid design team faces a nasty problem that faces many of us in the drive to deploy the new energy, namely, conventional batteries just cannot hold enough power to store the continuous power stream flowing from the large photovoltaic solar cells. For example, if we were to use say ... http://www.trybrid.org/trimaran/2008/05/01/current-battery-technology-fails-trybrid/