Energy
Airship Covered in Solar Panels For Rescue Operations
Everywhere online and on TV there are news about the cyclone in Burma, the earthquake in China and many other natural disasters that cause thousands of deaths every year and leave behind even more refugees. How can we solve this problem? How can we help all those people? Andrew Leinonen seems to have it all figured out. He especially designed an ...
Booming Natural Gas Industry, Destroys Air Quality
City of Boulder, Wyoming, and its 75 souls that live there have something in common with much larger cities across North America: high levels of air pollution. The root cause for the bad air is the region's booming natural gas industry because the Sublette County is home to one of the largest natural gas reserves in the United States. Craig Jensen, ...
New Film Solar Panels Holds Efficiency Record of 19.9%
The efficiency of a solar panel is given by the percentage of the sun's light that is being turned into electricity. The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) innovated a new thin film solar panel that just broke the world's efficiency record, reaching 19.9-percent. "The copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cell recently reached 19.9 percent efficiency in testing at ...
Oil Prices – new records over $122
Update: new oil price record is $122.73 and things sure doesn't look pink. The oil prices blasted to a new record of $122.47 a barrel. Buyers were motivated by Goldman Sachs' predictions that we may see oil selling for $150-$200 prices in a couple of years and the falling dollar. A grebe is covered in oil after the Korean oil spill. Taean, ...
GreenPix – Zero Energy Media Wall in Beijing
After seeing the green wall in Madrid I expected to see more and more walls being covered with plants, but this one does it as well. In China at the Xicui entertainment complex in Beijing, they've created this massive and astounding self-sustaining color LED display wall that is completely powered with photovoltaic cells. They also claim that the GreenPix wall ...
Luxim’s plasma lightbulb, tiny and ultra-efficient
A new technology that promises to deliver ultra-efficient plasma light-bulbs, better than LEDs was developed by Luxim of Sunnyvale, California. At the size of a Tic-Tac this tiny lightbulb can provide as much light as a street lamp. The technology seems to be simple, at least for them. It's partially packed in a dielectric material, has argon gas inside and a ...
Portable Biorefineries Turn Trash Into Fuel
"Tactical Biorefineries" is what they call these new portable generators roughly the size a small moving van that weighs about 4 tons and turn trash into electricity. They've been mainly designed for the U.S. military and could be used outside the military shortly after, when the technology evolves (translated: "when they want to") in the future. The biorefineries are designed to ...
Roll to roll printing of OLEDs by General Electric
General Electric has been working for the last four years to get their project involving roll-to-roll printing (like a newspaper) of OLEDs, live. The newly printed Organic Light Emitting Diodes are extremely energy efficient, with high performances and are supposed to be pretty cheap. I already have a few ideas of using the prints from extremely big sizes to very ...
