admin | March 29, 2010
Photo via Flickr As anyone who has ever left an open can of soda out too long knows, some things are just better with a little fizz, and the world’s oceans may be no exception. One physicist from Harvard University thinks that he’s found a solution that may help curb the rate of global warming–and [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
Tongzhou District, Beijing photographed by Wang Jiuliang Beijing has a trash problem. According to the local government, the city of 17 million people generate over 18,000 tons of trash every single day. Not only is it 7,000 tons more than local disposal plants can handle, it’s also really really smel… Read the full story on [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
Image credit: NREL There’s long been speculation that thin-film solar could compete with fossil fuels in the near future. So when the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory produced record-breaking thin-film solar cells that achieved 19.9% efficiency in laboratory testing, people were rightly excited. But how do you take idealized lab results,… Read the full story [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
Photo: Flickr, CC Cargo Ships to Go on a Sulfur Diet Most big cargo ships are extremely polluting. They burn the heaviest and dirtiest kinds of bunker fuel and their engines are often old and emission control is almost non-existent. But this could change around the coastlines of the U.S. and Canada thanks to a [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
Image: Pew Environmental Group “China Leads G-20 Members in Clean Energy Finance and Investment” China might not be the most helpful country when it comes to putting together international carbon restrictions, but investors in the Middle Kingdom are forging ahead and putting more cash into renewables than any other country, including the United States, according [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
The origins of wind power, Roomba’s great grandfather and the magical workings of the automatic shower faucet Our annual How it Works issue is now available, wherein we strip 13 amazing machines of their skins to marvel at what lies beneath. For anyone interested in science and technology, it’s a natural tendency, almost a reflex: [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
Capable. Optimal. Sufficient. (Coming Soon) Related posts: Efficient Unified Bathroom Theory Overview A meta-efficient design for a bathroom. © Justin… Bamboo Hangers We’ve featured quite a bit of optimal and sustainable clothing… Optimal Gift Wrapping Optimal gift wrapping comes from renewable sources and does… Tweet
admin | March 29, 2010
[ Filed under Space & Time or in the Science category ] Space isn’t a peaceful place, by any means, but some places are more violent than others. Fossil groups, for example, are remnants of what were once probably thriving communities of galaxies – and the remains we see today are the once-hungry galaxies that [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
[ Filed under Gadgets or in the Camera & Video category ] It’s hard to even know what category this gadget belongs in because it does so much. It may look like a weird headphones/ear warmers combination, but it’s much more than that. The headphones do, in fact, play music over a wireless connection. But [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
[ Filed under Transportation or in the Bikes & Cycles category ] Most bikes designers are worried about how their bike will function, and how good it will be at getting riders from one place to another. Likewise, most people who ride bicycles want them to be functional, efficient and powerful but easy to ride. [...]
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