Tag Archives : renewable

Sprout Biodegradable Watches Say ‘Aye-aye’ to Green Movement

Sprout Biodegradable Watches Say ‘Aye-aye’ to Green Movement

Watch is the mirror of your personality which speaks a lot about your arrogant or elegant nature, either you are powerful or low profiled, and these traits can be communicated through the watch you wear. The fancy and expensive watches may look attractive, but may consist of many harmful and non-biodegradable elements that are harmful for the environment. [...]
Photovoltaic cells in a spray

Photovoltaic cells in a spray

You’re at the beach, on a trail or in camp and a battery cell is over? Thanks to a new solar power technology, this cannot be a big problem. Photovoltaic cells in a spray, applied to any surface, solar energy can be cheaper and more accessible. At least that is what they expect Brian Korgel and his colleagues at the University of Texas, United [...]
Google goes green

Google goes green

Google announced late on Tuesday it signed an agreement for 20 years to purchase wind power from Nextar Energy Resources II Story County plant in the state of Iowa, to supply some of their data centers. The Official Google Blog has announced a further step towards its goal of sustainability announced in 2007. The publication said that goal would be [...]
Japan Plans an Outer Space Solar Power Station by 2030

Japan Plans an Outer Space Solar Power Station by 2030

Managing with its small amount of resources and increasing demand for fuels, Japan is one of those countries of the world that largely depends on renewable sources for energy consumption. No wonder this yearning led the country to launch an audacious multi-billion dollar eco-friendly concept, the Space Solar Power System (SSPS) that would take form [...]
Austin’s Largest Public Art Installation, An Electric Sunflower Garden

Austin’s Largest Public Art Installation, An Electric Sunflower Garden

Villages and woods are probably the only places in the world where greenery hasn’t become extinct yet. Even these are facing depletion these days. Considering this, the developers of a mixed-use urban village, Mueller in Austin, Texas wished to preserve the lush green surroundings barring its industrial feel. And that is how Austin got its Largest [...]
Heathrow to get a new £1 Billion Green Terminal 2

Heathrow to get a new £1 Billion Green Terminal 2

London’s largest airport is looking forwards to the start of construction of its new Terminal 2 as per the plans designed by Foster + Partners and under development by Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke’s joint partnership company HETCo. The Terminal 2 expected to cost around £1 billion would play the new domicile for the Star Alliance [...]
AirTree Attempts To Take Over The Natural Tree With Success

AirTree Attempts To Take Over The Natural Tree With Success

Developing and designing artifical trees is quite high on the green agenda of most eco-friendly architects and researchers; for one cannot deny that actual trees are still being felled down to make space for the concrete jungle. These synethetic replacements of the green faithful beings shall perform the same functions like a natural tree and also generate [...]
Neville Mars’ Solar Forest Greens Up The Renewable Power Scene

Neville Mars’ Solar Forest Greens Up The Renewable Power Scene

The human race moving on electric vehicles is a pretty green sight but is it really enough to overcome the the delicate balance achieved by our dwindling forests? And that’s where enter designer Neville Mars who has thought of a novel way to combat the threats of deforestations. His is an incredible EV charging station called the Solar Forest [...]
Drinking Water Out of Thin Air!

Drinking Water Out of Thin Air!

There have been many concepts and projects in the past that worked on generating water from air, but most of them confined to catering to the domestic needs. For the first time ever, researchers at Fraunhofer Institute led by Siegfried Egner, head of the department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB) in Stuttgart, [...]
Project Sol’R to Fly Across the English Channel

Project Sol’R to Fly Across the English Channel

Yet another airship is getting ready to flutter across the English Channel to prove its competence, but this time it’s the sun propelling it. A group of engineering and tech students from France has been working on Project Sol’R have surfaced a solar blimp, which they expect to fly across the English Channel. The dirigible measuring 72 feet long [...]