Using Recycled Milk Jugs for Filament Lowers the Cost of 3D Printers
Joshua Pearce, a Michigan Technological University professor, is working on a way to recycle items and use the raw materials to create anything – golf tees, a garlic press, even children’s’ toys. Pearce’s tool of choice is an open-source 3D printer. He uses free software downloaded from Thingiverse, which currently holds 54,000 open-source designs. 3D [...]
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In Lagos, Nigeria, the community of Makoko is accustomed to life on the water. The residents have adapted to constant flooding for many generations and have been building houses on stilts and using canoes as the main mode of transportation. Kunle Adeyemi, a Nigerian-born architect, wants to create a group of floating structures that will [...] Read more... | That’s right, Washington State wants to tax cyclists for their use of the roads, citing carbon emissions and the fact they pay no gas tax. For the most part, the gas tax goes toward road maintenance, but since cyclists use no gasoline, then who pays for the infinitesimal wear and tear they inflict on the [...] Read more... |
The environmental satellite The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) is now fully transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), by NASA. Initially a product of the partnership between NASA and NOAA, Suomi NPP provides scientists with extensive environmental data on the ozone layer, land cover, atmospheric temperatures and ice cover. According to Michael [...] Read more... | The U.S. and Russia are two of the five countries in the world inhabited by polar bears. At a conference in Bangkok this week, the two countries will present a global treaty to protect this endangered species. According to Jeffrey Flocken, North American regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, it is somewhat [...] Read more... |
The latest innovation in energy harvesting comes from the technology company Danfoss PolyPower. The material is a sports sensor technology, which uses electrostatic film to measure force and stance, when worn during sport activities. The material can monitor performance, providing data for knee and elbow angle, shoulder alignment, breathing rates, muscle volume and many more [...] Read more... | In a recent experiment involving four robo-trucks in Japan, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization [NEDO] was able to realize a 15% increase in fuel efficiency. One way to increase fuel efficiency is to reduce drag, which is why design engineers put so much into smoothing out the lines on fuel efficient and [...] Read more... |
Velkess, a startup run by Bill Gray, uses fiberglass on a lightweight frame to prove his cheaper kinetic energy recovery system can work in something like a renewable home installation. When you think about clean, renewable, energy for the home, four things likely come to mind, solar panels, wind turbines, or hydroelectric turbines. The fourth is the problem, because lack of [...] Read more... | In Germany, industrial businesses pay a premium on renewable energy, a tax which seems to be funding the development and and installation of further renewable energy plants and the decommissioning of fossil fuel and nuclear plants. For German automakers, though, whose sales are suffering, how can they pay renewable energy taxes and develop and manufacture [...] Read more... |
Socket is a soccer ball that produces kinetic energy when it is played. It is hoped that the energy produced can help power off-grid areas across the world. That aim is looking quite realistic now as the team behind Soccket, Uncharted Play, has now launched a Kickstarter campaign, along with a brand new design for [...] Read more... | Honda has devised a way, the first process of its kind, to extract the rare earth metals from used batteries and other products, recycling them to be made into new batteries. Electric and hybrid electric vehicles, in themselves are, without a doubt, cleaner vehicles. In operation, they have fewer, even zero, emissions when compared to their petroleum-fueled counterparts. Lifecycle [...] Read more... |
Electric public transportation, of course, is nothing new, and has been used for decades. Current systems, though, are either unsightly, requiring overhead wires to transfer power to the vehicle, or downright dangerous, the third rail. The latest solution, battery electric vehicles, does away with both of these power supply schemes, but does bring up some [...] Read more... | In 2013, the Arctic is safe from at least one oil company’s drills. Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday that it will not be drilling in the Arctic this year. The announcement is on the heels of many embarrassing and costly accidents while drilling exploratory wells off the north coast of Alaska in 2012. The [...] Read more... |
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