admin | August 27, 2010
Lightning shows us just how much electricity can accumulate in the atmosphere. Photo: Wikipedia, CC. Ride the Lightning It’s still just a dream, but scientists are slowly getting us closer to the day when we might be able to collect electricity from thin air – or rather, humid air – in the atmosphere. They’re not [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
Image: Toyota WHIIIRRRRRR Toyota will be offering its Japanese customers an optional (for now) $150 device that makes its 3rd generation Prius hybrid easier to hear at low speeds. They call it the “Approaching Vehicle Audible System”, and it basically makes whirring sounds that vary in pitch with the speed of the car up to [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
Images via Voltaic Systems We usually hear about new solar-charging bags from Voltaic Systems, known for its very high quality backpacks, laptop cases and messenger bags. However, the company is bringing us something new — stand-alone chargers. They have three new models available, each boasting about four times the charging power of most solar chargers [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
photo: Ben Carter File this one in the maybe someday category: At the national meeting of the American Chemical Society scientists have presented work on the potential of so-called ‘dry water’ to store gases, with an eye to store carbon emissions as well as act as a fuel carrier. Here’s the gist of it: … [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
Photo: Honda Patience is a Virtue Mentions of a hybrid version of the Honda Fit (known as the Jazz in most of the world) can be found as far back as 2006. Back then everybody thought that it was going to come out soon, but things turned out differently… But finally, for real this time, [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
Image via engadget One of the major sticking points for making plastics from plants such as corn is that it takes a lot of fossil fuel and resources to grow a crop, just to turn it into plastic that is still difficult to recycle. The pros of plant-based plastics don’t really out-weigh the cons. But [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
Image via Earthtechling When we see personal chargers, they’re almost always based on absorbing energy from the sun. Once in a great while, we also hear of new personal wind-powered chargers. But we almost never hear about water-powered personal chargers. This concept device, called the Vena Microhydro System by designer Danial Hull, bridges a gap [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
photo: Samenwerkende Hulpoganisaties via flickr Though it’s de rigueur to say that any single weather event can’t be directly linked to climate change, and it’s true, what if we could determine how much of say massive flooding or a 1000-year heat wave were caused by human-caused warming? Could the victims hold anyone responsible and sue [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation’s emissions from deforestation actually occur outside of places officially designated as forests, the UN REDD program may [...]
admin | August 27, 2010
Photo by Gonzalo Baeza Hernández The UK has started up its own green ranking system for mobile handsets, but Apple wants no part of it. The company has refused to allow the iPhone to be included in the system by O2, but its reasons for declining the opportunity aren’t exactly clear. … Read the full [...]
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