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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SURVIVING SUPER HEAT
Sony’s Reon Pocket 2 is a wearable cooling or warming device worn inside clothing using electrical conductors that transfer heat[…]
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WIND POWERED SHIPS
A Swedish company is developing a 200 metre long wind powered cargo ship. It will have an engine as a[…]
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PROMISING PREFABS
With modular (prefab) homes built in factories according to specific measurements, there’s no need for excess material, which reduces building[…]
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WONDERFUL WIND CATCHERS
Wind catchers are an ancient Persian technology still in existence. Often rectangular towers, they may appear in other ornate shapes[…]
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CREATIVE COOLING AND HEATING
Work is being done on radiative cooling and solar heating systems. SkyCool Systems, with a co-founder from Stanford University, has[…]
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