That’s not a smoothie, Jimmy — that’s grandma!
Want your death to have the least impact on the environment? Well, you’ve probably thought once or twice about the usual options: burial and cremation. Maybe you’ve even considered a m…
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Category Archives: Green Tech
Power up your house during blackouts using your electric car
Posted by admin on August 3, 2011
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A couple of weeks ago we saw how GM and Nissan were figuring out ways use old car batteries as a backup power supply for your house. Now Nissan has gone one step further, by revealing a plan that will tap into the power stored in your Nissan Leaf in th…
New photovoltaic materials work just fine without any sunlight
Posted by admin on July 29, 2011
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Solar panels: Great idea if you’re a spaceship, not so good anywhere it gets dark. There are some ways around this limitation, but MIT had a better idea: they invented a photovoltaic panel that doesn’t need sunlight at all, and they’ve built it into a …
Cheapest wave power yet: boats that go fishing for electricity
Posted by admin on July 15, 2011
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Okay, so this right here is a pretty terrible rendering. But the idea that it represents is a good one: by turning ships into mobile wave energy harvesters, you can cheaply and efficiently go out to the ocean and haul a big fat load of electricity back…
Gigantic wave energy generator destined for Scottish coast
Posted by admin on July 14, 2011
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The ocean is a big place. And if you’re going to steal a bunch of electricity from it, you’ll need a big generator. A brand spankin’ new Oyster 800 wave energy generator was just completed in Scotland, and this massive 85-foot-long beast will soon be c…
