Events
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Well, as good as this news is, unfortunately you have to live in Laos to be able to take advantage of the offer. In Laos, fewer than half the entire population has access to the grid and therefore sources of electricity for lighting, heating, or anything else is highly prized. ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
The UK Crown Estate, which owns the UK seabed, has announced its 3rd round of offshore wind leasing programs, hoping to have 25 gigawatts of new windfarm sites up and running by 2020. This means, with current technologies, that we can expect an additional 7,000 turbines to be spinning in ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
So you're walking down the streets of Brussels, just enjoying a nice Belgian waffle and maybe a beer when Fred, Barney and the rest of the Flintstones gang rolls by in their fancy car, outfitted with decals of all the major auto manufacturers, stuck to the sides. If that wasn't ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
This is our 6th article in a series covering the International Science and Engineering Fair
Many buoys that spend the majority of their lives out at sea are powered by batteries, solar panels, or in the worst case scenario, fuel which drives a generator. These can be frequently damaged during storms, ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This is our 6th article in a series covering the International Science and Engineering Fair.
Solar thermal hot water systems are awesome. They are simple to design, in fact many people make their own from scratch, and they immediately begin to save upwards of 40% of water heating costs. There is ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Washing machines are versatile instruments, and they’ve been used in many applications which have nothing to do with getting your whites white. I’ve seen them converted into Sten guns in WWII and their timers connected to IEDs in Iraq, but 3 students from Cuiaba, Brazil, have come up with a ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Lead contamination is a huge problem in many parts of the world. From mining operations to industrial waste, it can leech into the ground water and soil, causing huge neurological issues with animals and humans. Emily Dellwig of Kansas, has developed a method of removing lead from soils using some ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Access to clean drinking water has been, and will be, a continuing concern for the inhabitants of many countries in the world. Even when water is available, sometimes in abundance, it can be unsuitable for drinking due to microbial contamination. This is often the case with river water in Belo ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Water may look clean, but it can contain many clear or diluted chemicals, unobservable by the naked eye, that can seriously harm human health. Water testing is not prohibitively expensive, but it only tests for certain things. So Leah Schecter of Florida decided to see if one can actually SEE ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
As many of us are closet (or not to closet) nerds, we tend to have a number of gadgets around, many of them powered by batteries. When we throw them away, they either go to landfill, where their toxic chemicals pollute the soil and water, or we recycle them, reusing ...
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