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The car of the future could drive on air without ever needing fuelling
The clean car story gets better and better. Current electric car still need batteries that require not so nice chemicals and time for recharging. The hydrogen fuel cell car is the next step with the fuel cell powering the electric engine. The first such cars will enter the roads of Japan and Read More...
Teachers re-think the benefits of video games
Videogames pose extreme competition to schools. Games are fun; class is dull. That’s why video games have all but been banned from classrooms, but that tide may be changing as teachers discover that fun may stimulate learning… Minecraft is a videogame where you can build anything you want in a Read More...
Flexibility and independence makes workers happier and more productive
The rat race is a drag, fighting the rush hour is a headache, and sitting in a drab cubicle all day can be life draining. More and more firms are going virtual, allowing their workers to work from home full time, or come into the office only a few times a month. It makes sense. Workers are happier Read More...
Harnessing the power of waves with an floating hydraulic squid
Harnessing wave power in the seas around Scotland, a new hydraulic energy-capturing device shows promise. The floating squid-like mechanism is made of a central ballast shaft and three attached arms. As the arms move along an X,Y, and Z axis the hydraulic connecting points harness the energy as the Read More...
A classroom without teachers that comes to remote places
In Nigeria an estimated 10 million children don’t go to school. A new approach to education called the Hello Hub uses the latest technology to bring a classroom to remote villages. The Hello Hub is a solar powered kiosk that has a computer filled with educational games and Internet connectivity. Read More...
100 ways to be 100: sources
1 Your healthy diet The Metabolic Typing Diet, William Wolcott : New York: Doubleday, 2000 4 Cook from scratch The carcinogenic bisphenol A: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222978/ Phthalate: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801170/ 5 Eat a “power Read More...
A magic wand saves energy while making tea
We boil too much water for the cups of tea we drink. And as the leading tea-drinkers in the western world, the British are in the right position to figure that out. They have calculated that the collective extra energy used to bring a whole kettle to boil when you only need a cup’s worth of water Read More...
Aerodynamic trucks would save billions of gallons of diesel
Energy saving is good business. Take the trucks that carry the majority of freight around the United States. Two million tractor-trailer trucks burn about 36 billion gallons of diesel per year. Researchers have discovered that if 18-wheelers retrofit trailer skirts along the bottom sides of trucks, Read More...
The dawn of efficient, clean and connected micropower
Fossil fuel, coal and nuclear energy driven power plants not only are a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions, they are also quite inefficient. A lot of power—up to 20 percent—is lost in the long distance distribution from these big plants to the end user. This is why microgrids are quickly Read More...
Farmers discover new cash crop: Renewable energy
In the fields of eastern Iowa the same Amish families have tended the land for centuries. Amish like to be independent. That’s why they like—off the grid—renewable energy. Many are joining the new tariff programs that are popping up from Pennsylvania to Washington that allow farmers to trade Read More...