Unmanned Robots Push the Limits on the High Seas
Research at sea is vital in evaluating the health of our waters and climate change, but it’s also an arduous task, requiring much time and manpower, and not to mention the cost. There are however…
Energy
Giants Carrying Iceland’s Electricity
Landsnet, Iceland national power transmission company launched a competition with the goal to obtain new ideas in types and appearances for 220kV high-voltage towers and lines. The competition emphasized that specific consideration be given to…
Los Angeles $1.5 Billion “Water Supply Action Plan”
In urban centers throughout the western United States where over 70% of annual runoff originates from large snowy mountains city planners are taking a look at the threat and risk of global warming and…
Wind Lens: Fluid Dynamics Concentrated Wind Energy
Yuji Ohya, a professor of renewable energy dynamics and applied mechanics, and his team at Kyushu University have impressed a Japanese consortium enough to attract an investment of $1.5 billion in an offshore wind power…
Three Gorges Dam Project. China’s Biggest Project Since The Great Wall
What is the Three Gorges Dam Project? The Chinese set out to build the largest hydro power dam in the world, fully four times as large as the Hoover Dam, with a height of 607…
Seawater Fuel – Another breakthrough for alternative fuel sources?
It may be a new year but it’s important not to quickly forget about any of the momentous engineering feats of 2012 as we look towards the future in 2013. As the world continues to…
The Lightest Electric Vehicle Ever Made
Boosted Boards is re-imagining the long skateboard as an electric powered portable vehicle that will revolutionize the way people travel when commuting to work, sightseeing, having fun, or traveling short to medium range distances. According to the…
Nuclear Waste Can Power the World for 72 Years
It’s simple. Take all the nuclear waste in the world, currently 270,000 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of the same number of African elephants, put it into WAMSR (Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor), power…
Solar Powered Plane, can it make it around the world?
The Solar Impulse solar-powered plane is every green traveler’s dream come almost true. It has already demonstrated it can fly day and night without any fuel – could this be the future of air travel? Solar Impulse…
World’s Longest Under Water Gas Pipeline, 1166km “Giant Serpent”
The Langeled Pipeline project, spearheaded by Exxon Mobil, Stat Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, was undertaken to exploit one of the world’s largest reservoirs of natural gas in Norway’s Ormen Lange (in Norse mythology: “Giant…
