By reading my articles on this site you have probably understood by now that Brazil is a very inventive and innovative country. Most likely only few people know that it has an "Antarctic Program", which sets foundations on the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station. After the occurrence of a fire back in 2012, there was the need to rebuild the station. The works should start in 2013 and continue during 2014.
Fresh Kills used to be New York’s largest landfill, until it was shutdown back in 2001. Seven years later a project would be started – to turn this massive landfill into a park, one of the biggest around. More recently it has been announced that the construction of a solar plant is part of this landfill’s conversion.
Everyone loves a good summer. The smell of freshly cut grass, the fact that everyone moans about getting sunburnt but secretly likes it, and of course, the privilege of being able to garden away to the heart’s content. Well who says summer has to end? At least when it comes to the gardening bit. Yep, bursting on to the scene is a new food invention from the mind of Jim Ruck which goes by the rather snazzy name Breathe.
Unmanned vehicles have long been powered by traditional energy sources, but now aviation manufacturers hope to harbor the potential from the cosmos to power a revolutionary new type of aircraft.
Proof that beauty and brains are not mutually exclusive recently came in the form of a 16-year-old Turkish woman, Elif Bilgin. Over the summer she won the 2013 Science in Action award, part of the third annual Google Science Fair. The invention that garnered the resident of Istanbul, Turkey, the $50,000 prize was a method for turning banana peels into bioplastic.
General Electric says it’s a little more complicated than making instant
oatmeal, but the company, along with the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, is developing a recipe of electrochemical solution and
water that will power a cheaper, safer, and longer-charged battery than
current electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The developers are hoping their
newly designed flow battery will remain charged for three times longer than the current Tesla S Model battery (265 milles) and cost about a quarter of the S Model battery.
The water batteries however, have no such problem. Aqua Power System Japan were the first to introduce NOPOPO – an eco-friendly battery that generates No Pollution Power – thus the name NoPoPo. The battery is completely rechargeable and it can be totally recycled. The water used within the battery is regular drinking water. No need for special water like that used in a car battery.
There is only one thing that is better than being an inventor, and that is to be an inventor amongst a group of international minds, best in their fields and willing to contribute to your idea. When the spirit of the lone inventor meets the force of global collaboration, the results can reach the moon.
Energy is a case of “water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink.” The sun light that is all around us is energy in its purest form, yet we go about stumbling on archaic technologies that use fuels with dirty and polluting byproducts. Until now. The folks at Waka Waka Power decided to tap in to the sun’s rays during daylight hours and extract the energy we need to power some of our most common mobile devices. For once, we do not need to go hunting for a socket somewhere just so we can plug in our “mobile” device.
If the future of solar energy makes you all sunny and warm inside,
there’s no hotter place to be than Intersolar North America in sunny San
Francisco, California.
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