Category Archives: Alternative Energy
It is so often these days that we hear about the various water shortages that the earth is going to face very soon because of the damage that us irresponsible humans have caused to this planet. This is when certain people come up with bright ideas to find a cure in as small a way as they can to help save the situation. Here is a concept that is very feasible. It’s a personal shower that uses recycled water and distributes it to provide a massage. And it just uses 20 liters of water.
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This is such a nice story. A father fed up of crazy water bills all thanks to his teenage daughter who likes to spend more time in the shower than probably on the couch watching MTV put his foot down and did something about it. Something many fathers of teenage shower-loving girls around the globe are going to thank him for. Australian Trevor Murphy has invented the Aqualim, a device that would stop the shower after a certain amount of water had been used. It requires no electrical parts and can be retrofitted to any existing showerhead.
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Sharp is coming out with its solution of an eco-friendly alternative with a new line-up of ten LED-based outdoor lighting products. There will be four solar-powered LED lights that combine solar panels with newly developed high-intensity, long-life LEDs to achieve industry-leading brightness, two models of LED security (crime deterrence) lights and four LED lighting fixtures. The solar-powered LED lights will have newly developed LEDs with 30% higher luminous efficiency and a newly developed LED lens designed to spread this light over a broad area resulting in really bright light over a large area.
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The quest to find the best ways to derive all kinds of alternative energy sources is a common thing these days. Now, a bunch of researchers are trying to harness electricity from walking. Yeah, a human being walking considering the rate of the heart beating or even the flowing of blood. They have discovered how to use zinc oxide or piezoelectric nanowires in order to generate an electric current when subjected to mechanical stress.
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Japan has more reasons to be very ‘proud’ of. The Aeon Group has created the country’s largest commercial monument – the Aeon Lake Town Shopping Center. It will have two complexes, Mori or forest managed by Aeon Retail Co. Ltd. and Kaze or wind managed by Aeon Mall Co. Ltd and in between the two there will be an artificial lake which will be three times the size of Tokyo’s famous “Shinobazu no Ike” pond and will also designed for flood control.
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Every trend has a season and now it is the go-green season. As more companies are getting fully aware of the earth’s depleting ozone and the dangers of economical downfall, bigger companies are investing time and effort on developing the new found alternative source of energy. Ironically, the solar power. The Lauren Engineers and Constructors signed a contract with Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for a new 75 MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant located near Indiantown. When ready, it will be the second largest solar thermal power plant in the world and the largest solar thermal plant outside California and also the first hybrid solar facility in the world to connect to an existing combined-cycle power plant.
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When one man in the United States broke all odds and raced against wind to set a record of 116mph in his Iron Duck Vehicle ten years ago, another fellow across the sea in UK stood interested. Now, he has accomplished his dream by racing his wind powered Greenbird and breaking Bob Schumacher’s speed reaching 126.1 mph in Ivanpah Lake, Nevada. British engineer Richard Jenkins’ Greenbird is a carbon fibre composite vehicle that uses wind (and nothing else) for power with the wing bearings and wheel unit in metal.
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The US may have messed up a bit of accounts and pulled the world into the quicksand but it also has a few things to be very proud of. The most important one is that about 60 percent of the new generating capacity added in the US last year revolves around new renewables including solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable energy devices. Travis Bradford who heads up the Prometheus Institute that conducts research noticed this achievement.
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The Solar Decathlon Wet Shower concept is something new that a bunch of the industrial design students, architects and engineers came up with. This design, approved by the ADA, is a concept for all range of users with features including bamboo or wooden floor with a base of steel frame, Tera LED lights, Kohler sink and faucets, Kohler Water Tiles, accessible fabric storage and retractable showerhead.
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It’s certified. Only the smart ones can save our planet. What else would you say for MIT professor Dan Nocera’s speech at the Aspen Environment Forum where he gave a vision of ‘the new energy economy with an assertion that our homes will be our power plants and our fuel stations, powered by sunlight and water’. He said that for this we will need like 16TW of energy production else even 2050, the cut off by cutting out a lot of energy waste now, will seem a dream. So, he is going to unveil next week the solver of all our problems – cheap, efficient, manufacturable electrolyzer made from cobalt and potassium phosphate.
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