Despite the prevailing scientific theory that light cannot escape from a black hole, a student at England’s Brunel University has been able to not only design a lady’s handbag that features internal illumination, but does so via solar power.
Rosanna Kilfidder is the designer behind the Sun Trap handbag, which uses a solar cell on the […]
They have now completed two days of racing in this year’s edition of the World Solar Challenge in Australia that I mentioned here a couple of days ago. It appears as though the Dutch team Nuna III is well on their way to yet another win. They were the winners of both of […]
This invention, known as the suspended-load backpack, generates it’s own power from the motion of the person carrying it. It’s development is being led by Lawrence Rome, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the idea for it came from a request of the U.S. Office of Naval Research to […]
Here are a couple of Eco-Festivals taking place this weekend in the US…
The first is called the Green Festival, an event put on by Global Exchange and Co-op America, and is being held in Washington, DC at the Convention Center on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $15 at the door and get this, if […]
This week’s issue of BusinessWeek magazine (Tues Sept 20/05) features an extensive technology special report on alternative energies. Dubbed A Low Cost Energy Future, the edition features a number of articles on solar tech, wind gen, hybrids, conservation strategies and more.
A quick perusal of the articles available online revealed the following…
Fresh Heat for Energy […]
The 2005 edition of the World Solar Challenge will commence this coming Sunday, September 25th. 35 teams will be competing in this, the 8th occurence of the event, and will see them departing from Darwin on the north coast of Australia to travel over 3000km across the continent to Adelaide, powered solely on daylight.
Sometimes […]
Right here in my wonderful home province of Ontario, Canada, Brascan Power, a company more commonly associated with hydroelectric power gen, has received final government approvals this week to begin construction on their first wind power project.
The Prince Wind Farm is expected to go online in the second half of 2006 and will have the […]
This Thursday, September 22nd is World Carfree Day.
All around the globe, with 1,544 cities in 40 countries participating, people will be leaving their cars at home and using alternative means of transportation to prove that it is possible to seriously reduce our dependence upon those oil-sucking beasts.
Worldcarfree.net, the on-line headquarters of the World Carfree Network, […]
This science kit is designed for kids 12 and up. That includes me right? Cause I really want to play with this. Available from DiscoverThis.com, a US based science toy retailer, it’s the Power House Kit - Experiments in Future Technics.
Designed to provide an introduction to renewable energy sources, it strives to […]
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver has dedicated what they’re billing as the ultimate energy efficient demonstration home. The Net Zero Energy Habitat for Humanity House, located on Carr Street in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, was specifically built to an energy efficient design that combines energy conservation with solar heat and power gen technologies […]
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