Philips Flattens the Light Bulb
The light bulb hasn’t evolved much since Thomas Edison gave the world the original design in 1879. That is, until now… Philips has decided to take the traditional light bulb and make it flatter, in…
Energy
New Work on Chernobyl’s Number 4 Reactor 27 Years Later
Nearly three decades ago, the Chernobyl nuclear power accident took place during a system test of the number 4 reactor which proceeded to explode, resulting in a meltdown that exposed the environment to radioactive contents…
Can We Learn from Small Countries’ New Models Of Sustainability?
IndustryTap has been covering small countries such as Estonia, population 1.3 million, the world’s most connected and networked society. Another lilliputian world leader, population 9.5 million, is Sweden. In Stockholm’s Kista or “science city”, a…
Live with 1 Million People in a Futuristic Pyramid City
Dubai is building one of the wonders of the world, inspired by incredible feats of architecture of Mayans and Egyptians. They built the pyramids to weather the test of time, but masterpiece structure ‘Ziggurat’ will…
Bladeless Turbine Harvests Wind Energy 2.3X More Efficiently Than Bladed Turbines
We have more than enough wind energy to power the whole world. But conventional wind turbines don’t do that great of a job of harnessing it. Saphon Energy introduced a radical innovation in wind technology…
World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine Installed
The Haliade 150, the world’s largest offshore wind turbine recently installed off the Belgian coast, symbolizes the beginning of the development of a brand new set of technologies. French turbine and train maker Alstom claim…
Over a Quarter of San Francisco’s Air Pollution “Made in China”
Most people know about the unprecedented air pollution in most of the Chinese cities. It has long been known that air pollution from China even travels all the way to the western part of the…
Moon Base Would Lay the Groundwork for Lunar Solar Ring by 2035
“If at first an idea is not absurd,” Albert Einstein said, “then there is no hope for it.” And humanity’s greatest accomplishments usually come after years of trials and tribulations and often with “our backs against the…
Is Cloud-Based Backup Power on the Horizon?
When the computer revolution was several decades old, the existence of huge amounts of underutilized computing power and storage capacity from companies like Amazon, Google and others, and the huge waste it entailed, led to…
Radioactive Glass Could Reduce Nuclear Waste by 90%
Nuclear power is no doubt a cleaner solution to energy production and is also more efficient than its fossil fuel predecessors. But the nuclear waste it generates is extremely hazardous and needs to be handled…
