Get prepared to enjoy a thrilling green ride. The classic Coney Island ride is on its way to go green. The Wonder Wheel will soon have solar panels on the tops of its 16 swinging cars. The eco-friendly installation that is expected to produce enough..
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A new variety of the jatropha curcas plant that is capable of yielding more oil will be seen benefiting the world really soon. SG Biofuels unveiled a proprietary variety of the plant on Monday. The company claims that this new variety will yield more.
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Taking inspiration from the opening and closing of a flower bud, Philips Design has visualized the Sustainable City Lights. The intelligent lighting systems harness solar and wind energy, and beam up the LEDs automatically when they sense the human…
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Conventional windmills have contributed in a big way to meet with the renewable energy requirements in the UK. Now it time for a new wind turbine design to breathe new life into hopes for the UK’s clean energy targets. Nova (Novel Offshore Vertical.
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Over the years, you must have come across many Humancar concepts, but this one is sure to top the list. Dubbed the “Imagine_PS™ NEV (or Neighborhood Electric Vehicle),” this latest version blends electricity with good old human muscle power….
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Dawn Bonnell, a professor of materials science, and his colleagues have recently unveiled a method to transform optical radiation into electrical current that could lead to self-powering molecular circuits and efficient data storage. For the…
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This summer, Butalco GmbH, a Swiss start-up company, will use its proprietary new yeast technology to produce biofuel from agricultural waste in a newly built pilot plant in Southern Germany, currently owned by Hohenheim University. Butalco’s new…
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If all of us start creating electricity in our backyards, there’ll be no need of big power plants and transmission line grids in near future. K.R. Sridhar from Bloom Energy has moved past the theoretical assumptions, and has created a little…
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Who would have thought that reinventing the wheel could help in making it into a sustainability-focused competition. But, this is exactly what has happened to a team of students at Columbia University. The students have succeeded in entering into the.
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Helping the needful even after you are gone is such a beautiful thought. Making it possible for us is the developing medical science, which brings new and better solution each day. Experts have come up with an interesting idea that will not only save.
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