Category Archives: Alternative Energy
Since global warming is such a concern and since we can’t actually be carrying around green houses to go green, a couple of intelligent heads thought to invent just that. This is referred to as a mobile mini green-house or living filter called Bel-Air. It absorbs and metabolizes noxious chemicals and particles from the air that circulates in homes. This was created by Parisian industrial designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Harvard scientist David Edwards. So what it does is, act as an air purifier that continuously inhales polluted air, forcing it through three natural filters prior to releasing it back into the space, purified.
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Here is an eco-composter. A composter is an object used for composting. Composting is the natural speeding process where ‘microorganisms break down complex organic matter into simple, nutritious topsoil’. It is an old fashioned style object that is coming back into use as the fears of global warming rises. The eco-composter tumbler has a capacity of 71 gallons and is made of 100 per cent recycled materials. The tumbler breaks down fresh material in the shortest amount of time to create rich black soil. The spherical shape and special base allows the object to rotate easily in any direction for easy mixing. A patented internal air tube system allows an open flow of air from the outside, directly into the center of the composting material. It can also be used in all weather conditions.
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Energy company Total has upgraded its existing gas-fired boiler with the carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to make it the world’s first retrofit of a power plant, based in the south of France. This technology will help reduce emissions from coal, gas and oil-fired power stations. Researchers are saying that the technology was essential for the UK to meet its climate change targets saying that ‘it has to completely clean up CO2 emissions from gas as well as coal by 2030, if the country is to meet the legally binding decreases set by the climate change committee’. This technology can apparently save the planet from the expected increased use of coal in power stations around the world.
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It’s fine and green to drive around in an electric vehicle and re-charge the same from an electric vehicle (EV) charging station. But it can get greener when you can juice up the e-vehicles from a solar powered EV charging station. So Chicago based Carbon Day Automotive unveiled the first solar-powered electric vehicle charging station in the City of Chicago. Dubbed, Solar Plug-In Station it sports solar panels that form a tree-like canopy. While a sculpted piece conceals an underground battery pack which assists in storing the solar energy. The grid stores the sun’s energy, a renewable resource, to power zero emission electric vehicles. Simply plug in the electric vehicle to the ChargePoint which is actually an electric vehicle recharging system that is the size of a parking meter and can be free standing or mounted on a pole or wall.
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We certainly didn’t miss reporting about the most eco-friendly, fundamental yet effective Kyoto Box last month. Then, we told you about the design and working of this cheap, solar-powered cardboard cooker. Today, it is time to honor this $5-$6 eco-friendly cooker for winning a prize of $75,000 prize for ideas to fight global warming. Jon Bohmer’s invention, Kyoto Box, is named after the United Nations’ Kyoto Protocol that seeks to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Aimed at billions of people who use firewood to cook, it also makes it easier to boil polluted water. Humble and green, the Kyoto Box outshone at the FT Climate Change Challenge.
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Researchers are these days keeping busy doing something useful than spent time creating only weapons of mass destruction or elements that are only bad news for the lazy, rude world this has become. Solar power and wind power were developed a lot these days but now US scientists have a new source by digging deep underground that can be used to generate energy called ‘ice that burns’ or gas hydrates. The ‘burning ice’ is estimated to leave a comparatively smaller carbon footprint, being much more cleaner than fossil fuels. The gas hydrates are formed when a methane gas from decomposing organic material reacts with water at a high pressure and low temperature.
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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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