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Friday, April 18th, 2008Mobile phone coverage can become energy efficient thanks to a brilliant idea for a Swedish company called Flexenclosure. According to the company, in Africa you can find about 40,000 base stations powered by diesel engines and each station needs 5200 gallons of oil which means about 210,000,000 gallons yearly in order to be able to [...]
Toys That Run On Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008When you hear about toys, you do not take them very seriously because only kids play with them. Actually, the story is a little different, as Horizon Fuel Cells is going to provide toy cars with small fuel cells. Their idea is to make educational toys because nowadays not many read books and what’s the [...]
IBM Computer Center To Warm Up A Swiss Swimming Pool
Monday, April 14th, 2008Everybody knows that computers generate a lot of heat which doesn’t serve for anything but only for global warming. Now some people in Switzerland have come up with the perfect solution - the heat coming from an IBM-based computer center is going to warm up a local swimming pool.
The heat from the equipment will be [...]
Coastal Fog Tower Channels Water In Chile
Monday, April 14th, 2008Here is an interesting idea which could allow sustainable agriculture to be deployed even in the most arid places on Earth. The project is called Fog Tower and it consists of a helical structure that absorbs and sewers water from surrounding areas. The designers of the Fog Tower are Alberto Fernandez and Susana Ortega and [...]
Radioactive Waste Converted Into Inert Substance
Sunday, April 13th, 2008A group of Russian researchers in collaboration with the Israeli’s Environmental Energy Resources (EER) have developed a reactor that converts radioactive waste into inert byproducts. Although there were many who thought that this is not possible, Itschak Shrem from the Shrem, Fudim and Keiner, an investment company, announced the breakthrough at a press conference in [...]
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