published February 20, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Hydrogen spectrum, cosmiccandace Last time we checked in on Thomas Mallouk's work applying biomimicry to generate hydrogen , he was reporting about 0.3 percent efficiency. According to his projections, the proof-of-concept device for producing hydrogen using the same trick applied in plants for photosynthesis could eventually reach efficiencies of 10-15%, beating nature's average of 1 to 3 percent. ...
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published January 27, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Daniel Loewe. Project: Svala Imagine your dress becomes your means of transportation! This was the briefing the students at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Barcelona received from BMW . The result are 5 concepts for future mobility in cities like Barcelona , that result from morphing fashion with transport design. Great to see that all ...
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published January 15, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: whowillwewill.com However the referendum in South Sudan turns out, one thing will not go away quickly: the lack of water in the region. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, is at work on a project that will mitigate that problem in at least one town, and will hopefully be replicated in other regions if ... Read ...
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published November 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Photos: Screen capture of video by EcoIdeas.net. Thanks to a program by a Chilean University and a government office, a group of families in the Villaseca town of Valle del Elqui, Chile, went from struggling with the task of finding firewood to cook and keep themselves warm, to getting proficient in the art of solar cooking . Among them ...
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published November 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Images Credit Vancity Buzz Our two favourite solutions for the future of transport, bikes and electric cars, interacted in Vancouver on Friday. The Zero Emissions Race was wheeling through Vancouver when a cyclist apparently rode off the sidewalk and in front of the Oerlikon Solar racing team vehicle . The 50 year old cyclist was injured and taken to ...
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published July 28, 2010 and has No Comments
The graphene organic photovoltaic manufacturing process. Courtesy of USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Bulky solar-powered gear is nothing new , but imagine charging your iPod or cell phone while you jog along... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published July 19, 2010 and has No Comments
Images: Green Building Advisor Born in Boston and living in Nashville, I'm continually struck by the fact that Southerners expect air conditioning to be everywhere and running at all times. Enduring the summer swelter just isn't the way it's done down here. New Yorkers and Bostonians, on the other hand, seem almost competitive over who can endure more heat. ...
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published June 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti & Daniela Droz. The ideas for solar power are endless, the results of the workshop "Sunny Memories" prove. Encouraged by the ongoing solar energy revolution, the EPFL+ECAL Lab along with three major design colleges asked students to experiment with dye-sensitized solar cells . More than 80 students from the California College for the Arts in ...
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published May 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Credit: Reis Robotics Can robots make a better, more affordable solar panel? Michigan-based silicones giant Dow Corning is betting on it, and has forged a partnership with Reis Robotics of Germany. The two companies say their alliance will result in "breakthrough solar encapsulation technology" to increase the production rate of solar panels and lower the cost per watt of ...
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published April 15, 2010 and has No Comments
When he was just in his mid-20s, Denis Hayes was made national coordinator of the very first Earth Day. That was forty years ago, and a lot has changed. Over his career as a lawyer, technologist, investor, and advocate, Hayes has watched Earth Day become a global phenomenon, aggregating the efforts of myriad causes in many places (occasionally co-opted ...
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