GM, Chevy Finding Comfortable Niche in Silicon Valley
Detroit and its automobile makers have decades of shoddy manufacturing to live down. One way to do this is to join the cutting edge of high technology and be part of the innovation wave that…
Energy
Tanera Mor, A Scottish Island With 24-Hour Electricity, Broadband, and a Post Office is On Sale For £1.95m
If you are tired of hustle and bustle of city life and want to escape from the rat race, there is an offer for you. The 760-acre Tanera Mor, a self-sufficient island, could be yours!…
America Gets Its First Solar Road Panels in Sandpoint, Idaho
Solar-paneled roads and highways? That’s not a sci-fi gimmick or an eco-conscious fantasy. On October 3rd, the Solar Roadways company unveiled the first American solar tiles in Sandpoint, Idaho. Though only a trial run, similar…
Open Source Machines Shred, Compress, Inject & Extrude Recycled Plastic Trash
This is the coolest thing you’ve never yet seen! This website offers an open source design for making plastic trash useful again. It takes some tinkering, but the little machines can be put together from…
Sundrop Farms in the Australian Desert Grows 17,000 Metric Tons of Vegetables with Nothing But Sun and Seawater
Sundrop Farms in the South Australian desert produces 15,000 tons of tomatoes per year using nothing more than sunlight and seawater. Crops are grown in a hydroponic greenhouse lined with water-soaked cardboard, without using any…
Quantum-Dot Solar Windows Can Power Entire Buildings
A team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory has demonstrated that quantum dot, solar-powered windows can really be scaled up. In fact, they created quantum dot solar powered windows that are large enough to power entire…
Drone Equipped With 1000W LED Light Bar Can Light Up Bridges at Night
YouTube channel rctestflight may have outdone themselves with their latest installment featuring a Freefly Alta octocopter. By connecting a 1,000 watt LED light bar to the bottom of the octocopter, the drone was able to…
Water Seer Pulls 11 Gallons of Clean Drinking Water From Thin Air
In many parts of the world, the lack of an adequate supply of clean water is a serious problem. As per UNICEF estimates, worldwide, about 2,000 children under the age of five die every day…
This Typhoon Turbine Could Power All of Japan for 50 Years
Japan, being an island nation, is regularly hit by the typhoons and is always associated with destruction. But an engineer named Atsushi Shimizu is looking for a silver lining in these typhoons. He is trying…
Comparing the Capabilities of Thermocouples & Infrared Cameras
FLIR Systems has posted a recorded version of a popular webinar that compares two common instruments used for measuring temperature: thermocouples and infrared (IR) cameras. The webinar provides an informative introduction to temperature measurement with…
