Source: treehugger.com Published: April 26, 2017 Video screen capture YouTube By Megan Treacy There is no shortage of great off-grid renewable power sources for your outdoor adventures from rugged solar chargers to the famous BioLite stove that charges your gadgets as...
Source: theguardian.com Published: February 26, 2017 Kingsley Chen, the drone fleet coordinator at SunPower, demonstrates the use of a drone to survey land for designing a solar power plant. Photograph: Robert Durrell/The Guardian Katie Fehrenbacher A cottage industry...
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: stateofgreen.com Published: July 25, 2016 By Charlotte Gjedde A recovery of surplus heating from waste water is the focus in a new research project – the results can lead to energy savings, which both benefit economy and environment. Today the heating from the...
Source: theguardian.com Published: December 22, 2016 A test phase will evaluate whether the solar panel road can provide enough energy to power street lighting. Photograph: Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA Kim Willsher in Paris France has opened what it claims to be the...
Source: fastcoexist.com Published: January 23, 2015 “It’s pretty rare to find a new source of energy where there’s no environmental impact,” says Gregg Semler, CEO of Lucid Energy, the Portland-based startup that designed the new system. By Adele Peters If you live...
Source: greencarreports.com Published: February 19, 2013 Antony Ingram It isn’t just fossil fuels that are a finite resource–rubber is another substance in high demand, and short supply. The latest estimates suggest that global demand for rubber is expected to...
Source: technewsworld.com Published: July 3, 2013 by Rachelle Dragani A flashlight that ditches the batteries in favor of body heat is one of the finalists in Google’s 2013 Science Fair. Ann Makosinski, 15-year-old Canadian student, created what she calls the...
Source: dailymail.co.uk Published: March 19, 2013 By Damien Gayle 100-megawatt plant will power thousands United Arab Emirates homes It is hoped that it will also displace 175,000 tons of CO2 each year Plant covers 2.5 sq/km of desert, equivalent to 285 football...
Source: sustainabledanceclub.com Published: May 10, 2013 Energy Floors developed the Sustainable Dance FloorTM and launched it in 2008 as the world’s first energy generating floor. It is an eye-catching dance floor which can be installed in customized ways for various...