Energy

Ice Hotel Planning a Solar-Powered Addition That Will Stay Cold All Year Long

Sweden’s Ice Hotel is generally reconstructed every year out of snow and ice blocks, where it remains open from fall to spring. Somebody has decided that’s not enough time for the famed hotel to be…

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Floatwing, an Off-the-Grid Floating Home is a Cross Between a Yacht & Holiday Home

Friday, a Portugal-based design firm, has developed a beautiful, self-sufficient floating home that is completely off-the-grid. The modular floating home is named ‘Floatwing’. Environmentally-friendly Floatwing can generate all of the energy it needs for an entire year,…

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World’s Largest Delta 3D Printer Can Print Nearly Zero-Cost Housing Out of Mud

As per estimates by the United Nations, there will be an average daily requirement of 100,000 new housing units worldwide over the next 15 years. The Italian company WASP, or World’s Advanced Saving Project, recently came up with…

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Hear the Frightening Scream of Atoms Inside a Fusion Reactor

Scientists across the world are carrying out research for energy generation through nuclear fusion. If these scientists are successful in harnessing that energy, they would be able to mark a revolutionary moment for humanity. It would…

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ITER Will Never Lead to Commercial Viability

Introduction: It could cost as much as 50 billion dollars. It has been touted as the path to commercially viable fusion power. Its name is ITER – a supermassive tokamak under construction in the south…

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World’s Largest Waste-to-Energy System Turns Poo Into Power and Fertilizer

Human waste threatens the health of billions of people around the world. Although harvesting biogas from human waste for cooking and lighting is not a new concept, the idea of managing waste to generate power has…

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Variable Speed, Variable Pitch Wind Turbines Depend on Control Technology

When most people think of wind power, they think of fixed pitch wind turbines. In the ever-innovating world of wind power, variable speed variable pitch (VSVP) wind turbines have a number of advantages, including a…

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DARPA Visions 2045: Interstellar Travel, Virtual Immortality & More

Most people have heard of Ray Kurzweil’s prediction that humans will achieve immortality by 2045, a mere 30 years from now. But what does DARPA believe the future will look like in 2045? On October…

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Brain Surgeons Using Non-Invasive Focused Ultrasound Beams

The brain just might be the most complicated and powerful “machine” in the universe. But when the brain develops problems, brain surgeons and their patients run up against huge risks. Brain surgeons regularly deal with…

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Apple Working to Generate as Much Clean Energy as It Takes to Build Every iPhone

Apple’s latest step in moving towards renewable electricity is attempting to offset the energy used to make every iPhone with renewables. The full announcement explains the company is working with Foxconn in order to build…

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