How a Well Insulated House Saves Hundreds of Dollars a Year
Heating and cooling costs account for between 50% and 70% of all energy costs in the average home, so maximizing the value of the...
Researchers Make One More Step Towards Metallic Hydrogen as Superconductor
A team of scientists from Cornell University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook announced this week in a specialized publication that they discovered, at least theoretically, how to turn hydrogen into a metal at significantly lower pressures than ever thought and make a superconductor out of it.
EV Fleet Makes Skies Clearer in Sunny California
It’s not exactly Top Gun, but the top brass at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California are aces in my book.
After...
Solar Container – A New Water Purification System Powered by Wind and Solar Energy
The Swiss manufacturer Trunz Water Systems and a California-based reverse osmosis company, Spectra Watermakers have developed a new eco-friendly water purifier designed for use in disaster stricken areas where conventional energy sources are unavailable or too expensive.
Bacteria that feed on pollutants to produce electricity
Scientists of the Washington State University fished multiple communities of extremophile bacteria from the alkaline hot springs of the Heart Lake Geyser Basin area,...
Scientists Gene Edit Plants to Be Better at Capturing Carbon
It’s not enough for humans to pump less carbon into the atmosphere. To address climate change, many experts say we’re going to need to...
Nissan's ECO Pedal Exerts Force On Your Foot And Saves Gas
Making people push harder on brakes to get the desired effect sometimes results in fewer brakes and more accidents, as it becomes a habit. Do the same, but purposefully, on the acceleration pedal and you suddenly have gas savings, as Nissan remarked recently, and released the ECO Pedal.
New High-Performance DIY Battery Made from Scrap Metal Discharges as Quickly as Supercaps
Did you always think high-performance batteries (except for the lemon-copper-zinc experiment) can only be produced in factories? I did too, until today.
Well, now a team of...
Taxiing Green With Airbus A320’s Fuel-Efficient eTaxi System
In the air, the Airbus A320 passenger plane is one of the most fuel-efficient single-aisle aircraft that airlines can invest in.
On the ground, however,...
AoTerra Uses Cloud Servers to Heat Homes, Individually
A German company called AoTerra has developed a method of reusing waste heat from servers by embedding them into households. So basically their customers...
