Rehydr8 Water Filter Cranks Up The Purity

February 11, 2009
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Here’s an interesting drop from the the ultra-elite, extra-awesome water industry. In case you were up all night worried sick over the efficacy of your current lame-o Brita clone, there’s hope. A revolutionary new technique promises not only to deliver the purest, most crystal-clear water available to mere mortals, but it’s also nail-bitingly eco-friendly. Furthermore, the hardware that’s built around the technique also specializes in custom-cooling your H2O, so that your next glass of aqua is precisely as icy-cold as you fantasized it would be.

The Rehydr8 Water Filter utilizes a process known as thermoacoustic refrigeration to cool the water.  Thermoacoustics centers around sound waves and gnarly, eco-friendly gases, such as…

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Genetically Modified Microalgae Could Produce Biofuel

December 17, 2008
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Biofuel is regarded as a cleaner alternative for fossil fuels, and cleaner is better therefore researchers are looking for new ways to “harvest” biofuels. According to a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, unicellular microalgae could be used to produce biofuel thanks to a technique that consists of genetically modifying these organisms.

The UC researchers believe that microalgae are “too green” and with little adjustments, we could produce tons of hydrogen and hydrocarbons. In order to make such big amounts of biofuel, the scientists tested the micro-organisms by minimizing the number of chlorophyll molecules used to harvest sunlight without interfering or damaging the process of photosynthesis.

During their study,…

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First Major Energy Study Shows That Wind Is The Cleanest Source

December 11, 2008
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Clean energies are the future. This is already a certainty, everybody from scientists to politicians are looking for a change, or at least this is what they say. At some point in the future, fossil fuels will be replaced by renewable energies as the Earth is getting more and more polluted mainly due to human-related activities. There is no doubt about the fact that we need electricity and machines, but we are so stubborn that we cannot replace our polluting cars with hybrid-cars and it’s clear that we need to change.

It would be a mistake to make these changes instantly so we need to know what’s best for our future…

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The Watree Collects And Stores Water For Later Use

December 9, 2008
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The climate is changing, this is not something new and we already knew that. The problem is that these changes are not so good as pollution is making it worse. I don’t know if pollution affects the Australian climate, however, there are some major changes there too as rainfalls continue to diminish and the authorities have granted water restrictions as the water storage levels are getting thinner. The solution is called Watree, a concept water storage destined for urban sporting grounds.

Experts say that we shouldn’t waste a drop of water, but there are also some areas like buffer zones around sporting grounds which are unused and when the rain falls…

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FloDesign’s Revolutionary Wind Turbine - Cheaper And More Efficient

December 8, 2008
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FDesign is an aerospace company based in Wilbraham, MA, and they planning to build something rather different than airplanes - a revolutionary wind turbine inspired by a jet engine. So far, the company managed to raise $6 million in venture and they signed partnership deals with wind farm developers so that they can build the FloDesign Wind Turbine.

According to the company, this wind turbine will generate power at half the cost of conventional wind turbines thanks to its jet engine technology that overcomes the Betz limit for turbines. Regular wind turbines can capture 59.3 percent from wind’s energy, and this percentage was called the Betz limit. The problem is that…

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Europe Planning Supergrids That Would Provide 100% Clean Energy

December 5, 2008
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It seems like Europe is following the example of the US as the European Commission is urging European countries to build the so-called supergrids. The EC wants the countries to build regional electric transmission connections through the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, so that all solar, wind, and wave power be distributed across the continent.

The EC is expecting renewable energies to provide 20 percent of European energy needs by 2020, and more after this period. Currently, 8.5 percent of the European energy consumption comes from renewable energies therefore the EC wants the countries to leave all disagreements behind and build supergrids across Europe.

As in the USA, the states are…

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27.7 Billion Gallons Of Ethanol To Be Produced By 2012

November 11, 2008
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Nowadays, the Earth is getting more and more polluted because of fossil fuels. We already know that, but still our planet suffers even more. Although it’s not the best solution, ethanol could provide a better option as an alternate fuel as anything is better than gasoline or oil. The world ethanol market is expected to reach 27.7 billion gallons by 2012 as the interest in fuel-ethanol is rising thanks to the ban on MTBE in several countries.

Ethanol is also receiving help from many governments which have strict rules and they have begun to demand the presence of ethanol in fuels. Unsurprisingly, the world leader in the production of ethanol will…

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Obama To Change The Energy And Environmental Policy

November 9, 2008
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The next president of the USA will be Barack Obama and we thought that it would be great to review what the former Senator will do for the environment and whether he will encourage greener technologies. During his campaign, Obama said that the energy and environmental policy will change dramatically under his administration even if the economical crisis will continue.

Everybody is waiting for a change and this new administration and Congress should encourage the use of clean energy technologies for the national energy grid.

“The election is over. Now the hard work begins. Change is on the way,” said Dan Farber, member of the lobbying group Cleantech & Green Business for…

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Cyprus House Is The Green Home Of The Future

November 7, 2008
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No matter what would you do with your house, for the moment you cannot reduce your carbon footprint to zero. However, we’ve seen lots of homes of the future which will be self-sustainable thanks to the most futuristic technologies. In the future, all the things in the world will have to be green and the home of your children might be one of them.

Here is a house project designed by Italian-based architect Massimo Iosa Ghini. Even though he’s Italian, his project is destined for a residential area located alongside Pedieos river, near Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus. Unsurprisingly, the home is called Cyprus House and I have to say…

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100% Of Energy Needs From Renewable Sources By 2090

November 5, 2008
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Have you ever thought how the Earth would look like with 100 percent of the energy needs to come from renewable sources? Well, if you did I bet you didn’t image that this would happen by 2090! The European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and Greenpeace have developed a scenario which would need large investments and carbon legislation, but it would completely remove our use of fossil fuels.

The scenario is called the Energy [R]evolution Report and it says that by 2050 the hard part will be completed and we will use mostly solar and wind power. As nuclear power will be removed, the four renewable primary sources will be solar, wind,…

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