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2008

bulletDIY Solar Thermal Power Plant, residential 1-3kW Phoenix Solar Turbogenerator saves on energy bills (04/24/08)
bulletNew Engine Combustion Cycle Cleans the Air of Toxins, Phoenix PDT pulse detonation turbine prototype underway (01/21/08)

2007

bulletThis Engine Cleans the Air as it Goes! - Phoenix PDT automotive turbine prototype nears completion (12/06/07)
bulletWorld Car Initiative Underway - Space-age hybrid designed to clean the air as you drive it! (11/26/07) 
bulletDIY Build-a-Hybrid Vehicle Retrofit Program - PNGinc develops the lowest-cost, high-MPG HEV on the planet! (06/01/07)
bulletTesla Turbines, High-mileage Hybrids & Global Warming, Ken Rieli live interview - History, politics, cost-effective solutions to meet Al Gore's challenge of 50% emissions reductions
bulletTaking PDE Development to the Next Level, PNGinc's Pulse Detonation Turbine tests show performance gains - Significant improvements in performance of Phoenix pulse detonation combustor & Tesla disc turbine in tests  02/20/07
bulletHeading Off the ‘Green Diesel' Catastrophe, Pulse Detonation Turbine tests underway - PNGinc couples Phoenix pulse detonation combustor & Tesla disc turbine in proof-of-principle tests 01/23/07

2006

bulletNew Automotive Turbine Designed for Super-efficiency -  - Major milestone in the War on Global Pollution. Ultra-high efficiency, ultra-low pollution, ZERO exhaust treatment required. Phoenix PDT pulse detonation turbine design completed. (12/01/06)
bulletProject Global Energy Freedom - PNGinc releases first in DIY series, "Experimenter's 4.5" DIY Tesla Turbine Project CD", enabling personal power production using all-fuel Tesla disk turbines (07/04/06)
bulletTime is Now for Low-cost Alternative Energy Appliances - PNGinc is developing solar turbo-generator components & low cost wind turbines for global use (05/03/06)
bulletAugust 2006 Open House: 21st Century Power - 100th Anniversary Celebration of Nikola Tesla's first Tesla turbine, featuring new power applications: solar-steam turbine generator, turbine-hydraulic hybrid vehicle drivetrain, PhoenixJet aircraft turbine (01/06/06)

2005

bulletNew Power from Crude, Zero Refinement Required - new PNGinc consulting service, producing electricity directly from tar sands, oil shale, crude oil, coal (12/27/05)
bullet After 100 Years, Tesla Turbines Back in Production! - PNGinc begins manufacturing 21st Century Engine (05/26/05)
bulletPhoenix First Nations Energy Demonstration Program - waste oil cogeneration, energy independence, economic diversification, electrical power production partnership (03/28/05)

2004

bulletHeavy Equipment APU to Boost Fuel Efficiency, Slash Idling -- thermal regenerative system eliminates the need for radiator fans (08/09/04)
bulletPNGinc Teams with Universities, Environment Group -- Protecting watersheds from thermal pollution. Collaborative research project aimed at helping industry to extract electrical power from waste hot water, using Rankine cycle Tesla disk turbines. (03/19/04)
bulletHarnessing the Power of Pulse Detonation Combustion for Automotive Turbines in Hybrid Vehicles -- PNGinc is at the forefront in pulse detonation combustion development for widespread automotive use (03/12/04)
bulletNew Hybrid Design Breaks HEV Price Barrier -- small Michigan company takes on Toyota juggernaut -- new high performance turbine-hydraulic hybrid drivetrain will cost $2,000 less to build compared to diesel-powered HEV systems (02/18/04)

2003

bulletImproved Disk Turbine Opens the Door to Kinetic Energy Drives -- PNGinc's turbo hydraulic engine is ready for global use! (10/01/03)
bulletRebirth of the Tesla Turbine... Will the real engine of the 21st century please stand up! - PNGinc's Experimenter's Tesla Turbine featured in Extraordinary Technology magazine (09/15/03)
bulletNew Technologies Slash Diesel Emissions Treatment Costs -- trucks, trains, ships, power plants reduce fuel costs up to 5% (09/05/03)
bulletFuel Saving DETB Prototype Completed  -- ultra-clean Diesel Exhaust Treatment Burner based on UCB advanced combustion technology (08/28/03)
bullet2nd Annual PNGinc Tech Demo Open House -- 21st Century Prime Movers, more! August 2003 (04/03/03)
bulletSaturday Afternoon Live! - CEO Ken Rieli featured on American Freedom Net Radio (03/29/03)
bullet Preparing for the Inevitable -- PNGinc's Secure Utilities Strategy to Counter Terrorist Attacks (03/31/03)
bullet PNGinc Goes to Production on Engine of the 21st Century! -- Tesla turbines for energy independence (03/18/03)
bulletExperimenter's Tesla Turbine Kits for a Cleaner Planet!  (01/17/03)

2002

bulletUltra-clean Burn from Waste Oil Now a Reality - Combustion research aims at clean home co-generation, hybrid vehicles (07/05/02)
bulletCleaner Cities Program Launched - Technology Bridge to a Hydrogen-based Future (04/08/02)
bulletAdvances in Turbine Efficiencies - Tesla Turbine Improvements Yield 30% Increase in Efficiency (03/26/02)

2001

bulletTurbine Technology Demos Now Underway for Engine/Genset OEMs (11/16/01)
bullet200 HP Automotive Turbine Mockup Completed (06/16/01)
bulletNew Combustion Model under Development - Controlled Detonation Combustion™ technology dramatically reduces emissions (03/02/01)

2000

bulletPhoenix Two-Cycle Hybrid Turbine (9/21/00) - New Low-Cost Multi-fuel Retrofit Engine Uses Existing Two-cycle Parts
bulletPhoenix Vortex Drive! Breakthrough in High Performance Marine Jet Drives (9/1/00)
bulletIndependence Day! Pollution-busting Turbine Designs to be Donated to Planet Earth (07/04/00)
bulletFirst Fire! Death of the Piston Engine is Imminent (7/1/00) - Phoenix combustor is first step toward ultra-high efficiency disk turbines to replace piston engines
bulletSK2000 Security Key Breaks 2,000-bit Barrier! (4/24/00) - Phoenix Absolute Security System is 100% unbreakable by hackers!
bulletRevolutionary Turbine Launches into Development Space (1/1/00)

1999

bulletHigh Power Turbine Tackles the Cost Issue (9/3/99) - Radical new concept in turbine technology lowers the cost-to-manufacture
bulletWorld-changing Alternative Fuel Research about to Begin (6/6/99) - New Chemistry Lab Under Construction - PNGinc is expanding its facilities to begin development of a revolutionary new alternative fuel...

1998

bulletScalable Security System using PIC16F84 - Abstract - Circuit Cellar Ink Design98 Contest, 1998

1994

bulletPNGinc, TEDA & Beijing Company Sign Letter of Intent to Manufacture Handheld Navigation Systems

1992

bulletEPA Ship Exec Views Demonstration of PNGinc's Scan-Ahead Navigator™ - Anti-collision navigation technology dumbfounds president of ship corporation

 

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