Sagentia shows us a glimpse of the future with this Energy Harvesting infographic. Take a look and see how the use of the latest technology in products and monitoring leads to energy efficiency and the ability for us to generate… Read More »Infographic: Energy Harvesting – The Future Smart City
Instead of ending up with a high electricity bill in December, Matthew James Taylor explains how to make your own Carbon Neutral Christmas Lights from recycled materials. Click here to find out how… I’d like to see a pedal-powered version of… Read More »Eco DIY: Carbon Neutral Christmas Lights
‘The Artificial Leaf’, by Jared P. Scott & Kelly Nyks, is a short film with a big idea… a simple formula to save the planet: sunlight + water = energy for the world. Dan Nocera tells us how. ‘The Artificial Leaf’ is… Read More »The Artifical Leaf
In the fourth installment of iq2 Shorts series, Professor Michael Düren of DESERTEC argues that we can harness the African desert sun to power the world. The animation is adapted from their Switched On evening ‘Energy Game Changers’ from March… Read More »Solar Farming in Africa: Green Electricity Powered by the Sun
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With the power of the wind, a knitting machine knits from the outside towards the inside of a building. The knitted material is harvested from time to time and rounded-off in individually packaged scarves. Each scarf has its own label… Read More »Wind-powered knitting machine
This is a guest post by D. Salmons over at TestFreaks, where you can find everything from laptop rankings to hd camcorder reviews. Remember the good old days, when you went out on an adventure and took along extra batteries… Read More »Crank it up baby: a look at 10 eco-friendly wind up flashlights
Not being much of a follower of sport I hadn’t heard of the World Games until last week. And why did the World Games pique my attention? Because the stadium that’s being built specially for it in Taiwan is the world biggest solar powered stadium in the world. It’s covered in a staggering 8844 solar panels.
After the games are held in July this year, this stadium will power 80% the neighbourhood surrounding it with the massive 1.14 gigawatt hours that it will produce every year. Now that’s forward thinking.
The stadium was designed by architect Toyo Ito, seats 55,000 people and cost over $150million to build.
More images of the solar colossus below.
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The London Waste and Recycling board have decided that they need to look at the capital’s waste as a resource rather than rubbish to be disposed of. They are focussing on three main areas to reduce London’s waste problem, namely… Read More »London’s waste is a resource