Researchers at Imperial College London are claiming to have created a plastic made of glucose polymers extracted from grasses and trees. This sugar based plastic would take mere months to decompose as opposed to centuries, and could seriously save all of us from drowning in trash. That’s incredible. Apparently, the new plastic is also more energy [...more]
FastCompany, a website I fall in love with more and more each day, has created a list of two iPhone apps to help you spread the news that the planet is dying. Fun! Their first recommendation is SkepticalScience, an app that provides you with common climate change denier talking points, and then gives you the appropriate [...more]
Cities are hotter than rural areas – between 2 and 5 degrees hotter to be precise – because a lot of the materials used in their construction absorb heat instead of reflecting it. Asphalt roads, tar roofs and other artificial surfaces that make up cities trap sunlight, heating the area around it and intensifying the [...more]
The green home has long been a dream of the eco-friendly masses and cheaper solar arrays and wind generators have given them a good supplement to the evil grid. But some people are taking green living to another level by using not only recycled materials, but local raw recycled materials. Dubbed “Earthships,” the [...more]
Designed almost 200 years ago, the sterling motor is about to rev up again, and it could mean cost-effective solar energy on a huge scale. The Scientific American featured the novel solar energy plant, scheduled to start up in early 2010 in Arizona. The 1.5 megawatt (MW) demonstration site, known as Maricopa Solar, is set [...more]
Don’t think an electric powered car can survive long drives or tough climates? The folks at Tesla Motors aimed to dispel these myths about the electric car by taking their $100,000 Roadster on a 2,700-mile cross-country road trip from California through Texas and up to Detroit for the currently running North American International Auto [...more]
Did you know that industry computer servers account for 1.5% of the nation’s energy use? The Department of Energy did which is why they awarded $47 million dollars to companies who are seeking to improve energy usage in data centers. Energy Secretary Steven Chu awarded cash to 14 projects, including HP’s power supply chain projects, Alcatel-Lucent’s [...more]
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