TRI-WING JUMBO JET
Photo Courtesy SE Aeronautics SE Aeronautic’s new SE200 prototype tri-wing jumbo jet design, with a double tail fin and two[…]
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SOLAR SAIL!
Image: Solbian Solar A yacht with 60 square meters of solar panels produces 30-50 kWh of energy per day, enough[…]
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COMPRESSED AIR SOLUTION
Photo: Hydrostar Canadian location Compressed air energy storage (CAES) can store energy on a grid scale and is billed as[…]
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HFC-FREE FRIDGE HASSLE
Pound for pound hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants (HFCs) trap thousands of times more heat than CO2. Increasing global demand for cooling and[…]
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WONDERFUL WHEATGRASS
Photo from Land Institute website Kernza, a wheatgrass, is a distant relative of regular wheat. It doesn’t produce nearly as[…]
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INEXPENSIVE WAVE ENERGY GENERATORS
Photo: Universities of Trento, Bologna and Edinburgh, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa A simple, low-cost energy generator could produce the equivalent[…]
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TERRIFIC TRAIN
Photograph: Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon The world’s first battery-electric freight train, the FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive, underwent successful trials in California[…]
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LONGER LASTING LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES
Simply by adding sugar, researchers have created a longer-lasting, lighter, more sustainable rival to lithium-ion batteries that are essential for[…]
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PREVENTING PLASTIC POLLUTION
Photo: Andy Kelly The amount of plastic used and discarded is growing at an alarming rate. Microbes found in cattle[…]
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HUSK OF HOPE: CHOCOLATE WITHOUT GUILT
Partial photo: Tetiana Bykovets As someone admittedly addicted to chocolate, I am delighted to be able to report that there’s[…]
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