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In an attempt to help rid human society of its dependency on fossil fuels, a team of researchers working at Virginia Tech have rolled out a new technology which makes it possible for hydrogen to be extracted in impressive amounts from any given plant.
As several reports issued by the Department of Energy in the Uni... |
5 April 2013
15:11 GMT |
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The news has broken that PSA Peugeot Citroën is getting ready to take further steps towards improving on the ecological footprint of the automotive industry by rolling out vehicles capable of running on air.
Their Air Hybrid powertrain has only recently been revealed, and the company hopes that this green-orie... |
23 January 2013
05:36 GMT |
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While US citizens are still waiting for the White House to decide whether or not it will soon begin work on the nation's first Death Star, a German company named Rheinmetall Defense successfully tested a high-energy (50 kW, to be more precise) laser.
The testing activities for this state-of-the-art laser took ... |
8 January 2013
16:11 GMT |
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A team of researchers working with the Stanford University have recently made it public news that they have succeeded in developing so-called peel-and-stick solar cells.
As they explain, their solar cells are fairly similar to thin-film ones, yet what sets them apart is the fact that, unlike the latter, the materia... |
27 December 2012
16:41 GMT |
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More often than not, specialists who take the time to develop ways of improving the living conditions of people in developing countries focus on harvesting either solar, kinetic or wind power in order to provide them with access to clean and cheap electricity.
Still, two London-based designers, Martin Riddiford and... |
10 December 2012
03:45 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact that, whenever temperatures get high enough, a person's organism begins to sweat in order to cool off.
Interestingly enough, a team of researchers from ETH Zurich has recently decided that it may not be such a bad idea if the buildings we live and work in could do the same.
The idea i... |
28 November 2012
11:07 GMT |
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A team of German researchers has recently introduced the general public to a new robot that can supposedly get from one part of a city to another simply by asking pedestrians for directions.
As the video explains, this humanoid robot collects the information provided by the people it encounters on the street and us... |
13 November 2012
03:05 GMT |
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eBay is now selling state-of-the-art, greener-than-green gadgets that will change your life forever: pieces of cardboard shaped exactly like iPhones. The specialists who designed and manufactured these environmentally-friendly gadgets have worked long and hard and have finally come up with the state-of-the-art feat... |
8 November 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Thanks to a team of scientists from the US, the world could soon come face to face with biodegradable electronics.
Apparently, the technology developed by these researchers would make it possible for an awful lot of items that are presently frowned upon by environmentalists to simply dissolve after a certain period... |
29 September 2012
06:21 GMT |
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This week, the US Military unveiled one of its most recently developed gadgets: a robotic dog which is supposed to make a contribution to national security by helping soldiers move more easily through various terrains.
More precisely, this pooch, which can cover distances of up to 20 miles (32.18 kilometers) whilst ... |
13 September 2012
09:18 GMT |
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Seeing how most of the time people “forget” to turn off their computers whilst attending to other business, it comes as no surprise that significant amounts of energy simply go to waste.
However, thanks to a Dutch hacker known as Emile Nijssen, this issue might soon be a thing of the past.
Thus, this ... |
13 September 2012
07:08 GMT |
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Ever since the first solar panels hit the international energy industry market, researchers have been working towards making them more efficient, the end goal being to both boost energy production and cut down on manufacturing and installation costs.
Whereas some have focused on getting photovoltaic installations t... |
10 September 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Getting solar panels to behave like plants and turn around so as to follow sunlight is something engineers have been struggling to achieve for quite some time now. Naturally, the end goal is that of boosting the energy production of existing PV installations.
Whereas most of the researchers who looked into this iss... |
5 September 2012
05:59 GMT |
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According to recent information with respect to the development of the US wind power industry, bladeless wind turbines might soon be available on the market.
Thus, is seems that Sigma Design Co., a company based in Middlesex, New Jersey which is in the business of taking “smart ideas” and transforming t... |
31 August 2012
03:10 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact that the expansion of urban society also brought about ever-increasing amounts of food waste, especially given the fact that a relatively large number of people decided to go in the business of opening up coffee chops, fast foods, restaurants, and the like.
However, researcher Carol S. K. Li... |
21 August 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Seamus Curran, a physics professor from the University of Huston, recently developed a new coating for solar panels, which supposedly helps improve their efficiency and significantly cuts down on maintenance costs simply by keeping these green-oriented energy providers fresh and clean for longer periods of time.
As... |
14 August 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Official news from manufacturer Goodyear inform us that the company is planning to soon implement a new technology which will allow it to use soybean oil in the making of its much appreciated tires.
Apparently, soybean oil can act to help the rubber blend with the silica, and therefore cut down on the amounts of pet... |
13 August 2012
07:48 GMT |
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It is no big news that plants are highly sensitive organisms, which respond to virtually all changes occurring in their environmental conditions and to being touched by various other life-forms.
However, a new interaction platform, Botanicus Interacticus, takes things one step further and shows us that artificial ... |
10 August 2012
10:19 GMT |
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The British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology just made it public news that, thanks to a new online tool known as iBatsID, European conservation projects aimed at safeguarding various bat species will soon be much more efficient than they have been in the past. Apparently, over the past 50 years,... |
7 August 2012
08:34 GMT |
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A new report published in the journal 'Nature' argues that scientists from the University of Copenhagen successfully developed a new technology which allows them to manage the toxins that naturally occur in various crops.
This new technology, known as 'transport engineering', basically frees the... |
6 August 2012
02:56 GMT |
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US' Department of Energy recently agreed to provide funding for a research project aimed at developing an innovative type of battery which could store solar power for use during rainy days. It now seems that their decision paid off, as a team of scientists from the University of California claims to have devel... |
2 August 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Given the fact that Shell is pushing forward with its plans to drill in the Arctic region, which means that ship trafficking will also increase in this region, it comes as no surprise that efforts are now made to be sure that, should an accidental oil spill occur, responders will be as efficient as possible.
Thus, ... |
1 August 2012
06:35 GMT |
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Just recently, Kieron-Scott Woodhouse, a student from the Middlesex University, decided to look into the possibility of developing a new phone using materials not often used in this industry.
The main idea was to find the perfect balance between gadget efficiency and proper resources management.
After inspectin... |
31 July 2012
05:27 GMT |
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The Japanese multinational electronics corporation Panasonic just made it public news that it has succeeded in developing and manufacturing an artificial photosynthesis system which can convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic material.
As one can easily imagine, this means that the CO2 resulting from carryi... |
30 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The Sandia National Laboratories were recently commissioned by the US Department of Energy to look into the possibility of improving the overall efficiency of offshore wind technology.
Thus, the latter agreed to invest $4,1 million (about €3,32 million / ₤2,6 million) in a five-year project aimed at designing ... |
30 July 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Until just recently it was virtually impossible to exactly determine how much carbon was locked away in various areas of land which happened to be covered by dense vegetation.
The good news is that researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science, together with several other Colombian scientists, seem to have ... |
26 July 2012
11:04 GMT |
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Up until recently, bioethanol production was based on using massive amounts of glucose, which more often than not was extracted from sugar cane or starch crops. This means that, in order to produce this environmentally-friendly fuel, food resources had to be sacrificed.
However, scientists working with BioMed Centr... |
19 July 2012
03:28 GMT |
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In today's society, air quality is indeed a troublesome issue, especially for people living in densely populated urban areas and for those who spend most of their time indoors, working in crowded buildings.
Therefore, it should be considered good news that an Israelian company known as Better Air has developed... |
16 July 2012
04:47 GMT |
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Just recently, scientists working with the Michigan State University developed a new technology that allows them to maximize energy recovery from biological waste.
It is expected that their findings will help make biofuel production 20 times more efficient.
The study is published in the latest issue of the Enviro... |
12 July 2012
02:52 GMT |
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In an attempt to solve one major issue EV owners currently have to face – the fact that they can't drive over long distances without having to stop and re-charge – a team of researchers developed a way to “feed” electricity to such cars through their tires.
The experiment was conducted ... |
9 July 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Working on the assumption that human society has yet to make the most out of the sun's energy, a team of researchers from Utah decided to work towards incorporating solar panels into the clothes we wear on a daily basis.
The main idea is that, whilst traditional solar panels only harvest sun energy nearby vari... |
9 July 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Although being able to turn the lights in your home or at the office without actually having to stand up and hit the switch is nothing new – all hail remote controls –, it seems that soon enough you will be able to perform this task by using your smartphone.
Thus, researchers developed a new lightbulb t... |
28 June 2012
08:00 GMT |
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For the time being, invisible sunlight eludes solar panels worldwide, as the latter only react to wavelengths of light one typically sees in a rainbow.
However, it seems that 40% of the light beams we get from the sun are made up of invisible light, which is basically – as its name thoroughly suggests –... |
22 June 2012
09:04 GMT |
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While automotive companies are doing their best in making ground transportation as environmentally friendly as possible, by constantly improving on the performance levels of electric cars, it seems that air travel is also likely to soon go green.
Recently, the Solar Impulse plane managed to get from Madrid to Moroc... |
22 June 2012
03:00 GMT |
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Throughout the past ten years or so, significant breakthroughs have been made in the field of nanotechnology. However, it is only now that we are beginning to understand how nano-materials can impact on our lives, and lead to both positive and negative outcomes. A recent study conducted by Melanie Kah and Thilo H... |
21 June 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Marishane, a South African student from the University of Cape Town, won the Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award for inventing DryBath, a shower gel that supposedly cleans people without any use for water. Apparently, DryBath is both non-toxic and biodegradable, so it poses no threats to the environment. ... |
21 June 2012
09:05 GMT |
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At Vodafone's request, scientists from the University College in London (UCL) came up with a new type of accessory that is quite likely to gain a lot of fans in a relatively short period of time.
The Booster Brolly hybrid umbrella is basically your ordinary shade-provider, doubled as an on-the-go energy source... |
20 June 2012
08:49 GMT |
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As a result of a collaboration between IMB and the Leibniz Supercomputing Center in Germany, a state-of-the-art and at the same time environmentally-friendly supercomputer is ready to step under the spotlights.
Presently, the said supercomputer, known as SuperMUC, is presumed to be the most powerful in Europe. Thus... |
20 June 2012
07:53 GMT |
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New research shows that the tropical Iroko tree, together with certain microbes, can be used to trap carbon dioxide emissions by turning them into limestone.
Although we previously discussed in an article how, due to global warming, forests around the world are starting to release most of the carbon dioxide they ha... |
18 June 2012
07:01 GMT |
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The Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer process allows scientists to make nanorods glow using the chemical reaction that turns fireflies into some of the world's brightest insects.
Apparently, fireflies produce bioluminescence when luciferin (i.e. a light emitting compound) meets the enzyme luciferase (i... |
16 June 2012
05:16 GMT |
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The Raj Organization recently launched a new mobile app. Known as the Energy Saver, which is supposed to help regular folks spend less money on electricity by pin-pointing exactly which household appliances most “leech off” the grid.
With environmentalists going on and on about how everybody should work... |
15 June 2012
05:12 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact that carbon dioxide is harmful for the environment, as many environmentalists have gone through considerable efforts to drill this into our heads. However, there seems to be some good news: that researchers from the Freiburg Materials Research Center are working on using this compound so as ... |
14 June 2012
11:28 GMT |
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Presently, there is a growing worldwide need to invest in developing renewable energy sources, with major amounts of money going into the solar-, wind-, hydro- and geothermal-power industries.
Up until now, choosing one of these four options was conditioned by whatever various territories had to offer in terms of n... |
13 June 2012
04:29 GMT |
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On the 29th of June, Singapore is expected to open the gates to the largest of the three gardens designed and created as part of the Gardens by the Bay project.
With a total area of 54 hectares (about 250 acres), the Bay South garden features a typical tropical landscape: quite a lot of flowers and climbing ferns.
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9 June 2012
07:07 GMT |
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Up until quite recently, one of the main problems with solar energy was that the lack of an efficient way to store it, which meant that both during night-time and during cloudy days this source was highly unreliable. However, Panasonic is about to launch a new type of battery system that can take care of this drawbac... |
6 June 2012
09:29 GMT |
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The Tony Hawk skating games haven't been doing very well lately. Electronic Arts managed to release a Skate game that pretty much outdid the Tony Hawk franchise in sales numbers, while Activision was more focused on its gigantic revenue creators, like Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero III, to put some new moves on ... |
12 May 2008
16:16 GMT |
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