Source: ecowatch.com Published: January 30, 2017 Nexus Media By Owen Agnew Rod Read, an engineer and stay-at-home dad, lives on the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland. For the past seven years, he’s been designing a kite that he thinks could revolutionize wind power....
Source: phys.org Published: January 30, 2017 From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking water, water evaporating, and black carbon wrapped around plastic in water with...
Source: telegraph.co.uk Published: September 30, 2015 Freevolt harvests waste energy from radio waves to power devices Photo: (c) John Rensten By Sophie Curtis 1Freevolt, a new technology that harvests electricity from disused radio waves, could be used to power...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: January 18, 2017 SolarWindow is now developing thin, bendable glass. Written by Lacy Cooke SolarWindow made headlines for their business-card thin solar coating for curved glass surfaces in late 2016, and now they’re going a step...
Source: sciencedaily.com Published: May 9, 2016 System helps lights adapt to plants’ needs in controlled environment agriculture Source: American Society for Horticultural Science Summary: A chlorophyll fluorescence-based biofeedback system was used to maintain the...
Source: fastcoexist.com Published: October 28, 2016 By Ben Schiller Off the coast of North Carolina, two friends are developing a new way to desalinate water–a notoriously high-energy, high-cost process. Their solution: use the power of the ocean itself to clean the...
Source: cleantechnica.com Published: May 1, 2015 Image Credit (top, screenshot): Courtesy of Vortex Bladeless. Tina Casey We’ve covered vertical wind turbines before, but this one has them all beat. The startup Vortex Bladeless is developing a — you guessed it —...
Source: linkedin.com Published: January 3, 2017 Overview Innovative Wind Turbine Technology Developed by Formula One aerodynamics and materials engineers, Anakata’s patented ‘Accelerator Technology’ and ‘micro-downstream’ uses leading-edge technology to create a...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: December 28, 2016 Farm From a Box fits all the essential equipment for a two-acre farm inside a shipping container, including solar power generation and a complete water system. Written by Cat DiStasio Two acres of land is enough to...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: August 3, 2016 Lorraine Chow China’s incredible “straddling bus” went for its first test ride on Tuesday in the city of Qinhuangdao in the Hebei Province. Xinhua The Transit Elevated Bus, or TEB, first made headlines...
