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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TERRIFIC TIDAL TURBINE
Orbital O2, the world’s most powerful tidal-powered turbine, has started to generate electricity via the grid in Orkney. It could[…]
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LAUDABLE LOCOMOTIVE
Hybrid cars built by Toyota in the UK will soon be transported to the continent by a hydro-treated locomotive that[…]
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LET’S HEAR IT FOR HYDROGEN
Researchers have found a low-cost way to solve one half of the water-splitting equation to produce hydrogen as clean energy[…]
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HARVESTING HUMAN HAIR
Photo: Paul Siewert Researchers have used carbon dots, created from human hair waste by breaking down the hairs and burning[…]
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MIRACULOUS MINES
Photo from Spanish geothermal heat from old mines: Hunosa About one-quarter of British homes sit on a coalfield. An estimated[…]
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WATER SAFETY
More flooding from heavy rain caused by climate change will undoubtedly mean that water supplies will be contaminated at times.[…]
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