Energy

MIT Climate CoLab Leverages Collective Intelligence to Solve Climate Change

Annual Call for Proposals In the run-up to this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, taking place from November 30 to December 11, 2015 in Paris, MIT Climate CoLab has issued an international call for…

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MARS: Autonomous Wind & Solar Powered Trimaran’s Historic Research Expedition

Showcasing Cutting Edge Marine Technology Engineers and designers from Shuttleworth Design, MSubs and Plymouth University, UK, are working on the Mayflower Autonomous Research Ship (MARS), the first full-size autonomous ship/research vessel to make a trip…

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LG Unveils Flexible, Transparent, Rollable and Paper Thin TVs

No more rickety TV stands or cabinets and expensive wall mounting of your flat screen TV on the wall. LG offers a couple of solutions: Flexible Roll-Up TV That is Also Transparent Recently, the South Korean…

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Chicago Tops the Field With the World’s Largest Rooftop Greenhouse

It will be “Green Acres” in the world’s largest rooftop greenhouse, coming soon to Chicago’s South Side. The 75,000 square foot structure will sit atop the eco-friendly factory of the soap company known as Method, and will…

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Taipei 101 “Harmonic Absorber” Swings in 145 mph Winds from Typhoon Soudelor

Last week, Taipei 101, the world’s second-tallest building and winner of the World’s Tallest Green Building Award, was hit by Typhoon Soudelor as it ripped through Taiwan, then moved on to eastern China and southern…

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Water Powered Motorbike Gets 1,171 Miles Per Gallon! Is it Legit?

A number of reports about water-powered cars and motorbikes have been reported on the internet recently. A pattern of these claims seems to follow the price of gasoline. When the price of gasoline is low,…

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Using Crowdfunding to Debut New Solar Technology

Crowdfunding has been instrumental in allowing entrepreneurs and innovators to access financing for their speculative projects. Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other crowdfunding platforms enable regular individuals to contribute small amounts of money, which really adds up…

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Tesla to Sell $500 Million in Stock; Elon Musk Wants $20 Million Worth

Tesla is selling approximately $500 million in stock, or 2.1 million shares of common stock. The company has stated that CEO Elon Musk is interested in buying around 84,000 shares, or $20 million of this…

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This Sustainable Floating City is Shaped Like a Manta Ray

There has been a lot of discussion lately on what the cities of the future will look like. Whatever they look like, our vision for future cities should be one that is energy efficient, modern, sustainable…

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Enormous Explosions, Huge Fireballs Rock Tianjin, China (Videos)

The world has just witnessed what appears to be the largest hazardous chemicals explosion in history in Tianjin, northern China, one of the world’s busiest port cities. A series of explosions, thought to be from…

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