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The Japanese have announced they have successfully extracted methane from a methane hydrate reservoir 30 miles off Japan's east coast and 980 feet beneath the seafloor. They are the first to have achieved this feat.
Solar radiation, a common metal oxide, water and carbon dioxide combine to produce transportable hydrogen fuels.
Urine is already widely used as a nitrogen rich fertilizer. Now some young girls in Africa give us hope our urine can also power our appliances.
Converting plastic into oil. The technology is here and it is not excessively polluting. Could it save our oceans?
Got water? And a Power Trekk? Then you have instant power to charge any electronic equipment charged via a USB.
The Guide ranks 15 leading mobile phone, TV and PC manufacturers on policies and practices to reduce their impact on the climate, produce greener products, and make their operations more sustainable.
We need to go back to nature in order to move forward. The Microbial Home is a proposal for an integrated cyclical ecosystem where each function’s output is another’s input. In this project the home has been viewed as a biological machine to filter, process and recycle what we conventionally think of as waste – sewage, effluent, garbage, waste water.
Greenpower Education Trust is an educational initiative established to offer schools an exciting way to introduce their students to green engineering. The young students design, build and race their own eco-race cars. By getting pupils hooked on engineering while they’re still young the project aims to inspire the next generation to develop solutions.
When the wind sways the poles, the stack of piezoelectric disks is forced into compression, thus generating a current through the electrodes.
Thirteen year old Aidan Dwyer was waking in the woods in Upstate New York in the winter and noticed a spiral pattern to tree branches.
Two Solar Infographics. What if Solar got Fossil Fuel Subsidies,,,and Why the Military is in love with Solar Energy?
The Electrolux Design Lab winners and more. The Electrolux Design Lab theme for 2011 was Intelligent Mobility...
The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on. Their long range goal is to cover all concrete and asphalt surfaces that are exposed to the sun with Solar Road Panels. They plan to start off small: driveways, bike paths, patios, sidewalks, parking lots, playgrounds, etc. This is where they hope to learn lessons and perfect the system. Once the lessons have been learned and the bugs have all been resolved, they plan to move out onto public roads.
A Geminoid or twin-robot is designed to resemble a living person. It is controlled by an operator who through the use of advanced software can transfer facial movements and speech to the robot. For many years, robot technology has primarily been associated with factories and warehouses, but the days of thinking about robots as just 'tools' are over...
Available for purchase! Easy to operate (fully automatic) the SkySail will be on many a cargo ship in the very near future.
Electric Urban Vehicle Inspiration...many electric cars are available now...why wait?
Although not exactly sustainable, this is amazing and certainly will be a part of our future. The integration of LEDs into fabric...



















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