Technology
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Less than 5 miles from the Eiffel tower, a 120 foot cylinder rises into the air, not unlike the Egyptian obelisk a little further down the street. This is not a new art installation or a simple flag pole, however, but rather a modified piece of machinery more familiar with ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Since the world's oceans are by far the largest carbon sink on the planet, they've been paid a lot of attention in recent years, not only as a gauge to measure climate change but also as possible repositories for excess CO2 currently floating in the atmosphere. Geo-engineering projects have been ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
LEDs, light-emitting diodes, are the future of household and commercial lighting, there is no doubt about that; they are way more efficient than even compact fluorescent bulbs (they also contain no mercury), use very little electricity, and last about 50,000 hours, meaning they'll probably outlive us all. The question though, ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
To be perfectly honest we've not been fans of hydrogen around here, in fact we're pretty much against it for most suggested applications. The problem with hydrogen is that today the majority of it is produced from by-products of natural gas combustion which releases CO2 into the atmosphere, among other ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
On Sunday Bombardier, a Canadian-based company that designs and builds mass transit vehicles, business jets and passenger planes, announced that it will roll out the first of its' CSeries planes, one that is substantially more environmentally friendly that what we find in the air today.
The CSeries will rival the well-known ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
In a move that's a first for Australia, the Yang Power Station, a coal-fired facility located in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, has captured CO2 directly from the flue gases in what is being called a PCC, a post-combustion-capture device, which is being tested as a pilot project. The 35 foot high ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
General Motors has announced that they are planning on building the world's largest rooftop solar installation, to be located on their car manufacturing plant in Zaragosa, Spain. Well, ok, GM is not actually building it, or even owning it, or operating it, so it might just be a bit of ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Like the Prius wasn't good enough already, with its much anticipated 2010 model featuring a plug-in version, it's getting a set of solar panels on the roof to boot! The wildly popular car, which has already sold over 1 million units and is set to sell half a million annually ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Wave power is one of those renewable resources that everyone seems to agree on; it doesn't create an (arguably) unsightly view, and doesn't take up any usable land. It's also one of those great unbounded sources of energy, and since 2/3rds of the planet is water, there is a lot ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
There has been a lot of press lately about the UK's Professor Seamus Garvey, a researcher who designed a method of storing the excess energy produced by wind turbines for later use in a very novel way. Essentially it involves Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), a principle that works by ...
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