Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a “power shirt” able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy.
Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group, in conjunction with PVAXX Research & Development Ltd, have devised a novel way to recycle discarded mobile telephones - bury them and watch them transform into the flower of your choice.
Auto enthusiasts in the Greater Toronto Area will get their first look at the future as Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) unveils the Toyota Hybrid X and Toyota i-REAL concept vehicles at the 2008 Canadian International Auto Show.
3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today its 2008 Carbon Neutral Storage Initiative and published results from its 2007 program, which 3PAR estimates to have reduced carbon emissions equivalent to removing 2,300 cars from the road for the entire year.
The Ameren Illinois Utilities have filed an energy efficiency plan with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) designed to help customers save money by reducing their natural gas usage.
Thomas Lovejoy, President of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture titled "Climate Change: Prospects for Nature," at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday, March 12, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.
A new approach to the cooling of buildings across the developing world that needs nothing but wind and sun to operate has been devised by engineers in India. Writing in the inaugural issue of Inderscience's International Journal of Sustainable Design, the team explains the concept of a combined solar chimney and wind tower system that can reduce the temperature of incoming appear by 5 degrees Celsius.
A nationwide initiative starting this month will enable volunteers to track climate change by observing the timing of flowers and foliage
Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation, proposed today to permanently reduce its generating fleet's greenhouse gas emissions by retiring coal-fired generating units and switching the fuel source of other coal-fired units to natural gas when its proposed Sutherland Generating Station Unit 4 becomes operable in 2013.
Massachusetts-based wind energy company General Compression and its compressor technology partner Mechanology are using Ricardo's automotive engineering and development expertise to develop technology which aims to make wind power as reliable as conventional power.
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