HELPFUL – Page 30 – Our Fragile Earth

PREVENTING PLASTIC POLLUTION

Photo: Andy Kelly The amount of plastic used and discarded is growing at an alarming rate. Microbes found in cattle[…]

Partial photo: Tetiana Bykovets As someone admittedly addicted to chocolate, I am delighted to be able to report that there’s[…]

Sony’s Reon Pocket 2 is a wearable cooling or warming device worn inside clothing using electrical conductors that transfer heat[…]

A Swedish company is developing a 200 metre long wind powered cargo ship. It will have an engine as a[…]

With modular (prefab) homes built in factories according to specific measurements, there’s no need for excess material, which reduces building[…]

Wind catchers are an ancient Persian technology still in existence. Often rectangular towers, they may appear in other ornate shapes[…]

Work is being done on radiative cooling and solar heating systems. SkyCool Systems, with a co-founder from Stanford University, has[…]

Orbital O2, the world’s most powerful tidal-powered turbine, has started to generate electricity via the grid in Orkney. It could[…]

Hybrid cars built by Toyota in the UK will soon be transported to the continent by a hydro-treated locomotive that[…]

Researchers have found a low-cost way to solve one half of the water-splitting equation to produce hydrogen as clean energy[…]