Chinese Company Uses 3D Printer to Construct 10 Houses in 24 Hours
The small houses that the Chinese company Winsun New Materials is building may look plain, but they represent a huge breakthrough in rapid construction.
Amazingly,...
Viable Wireless Charging of Electronic Gadgets One Step Closer to Reality
Wireless charging of electronics has just been brought one step closer to becoming reality, thanks to researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and...
Dealerships Would Rather Not Sell Electric Vehicles – Consumer Reports
As it turns out, just reading The Green Optimistic makes you better qualified to sell electric vehicle than the average new car dealership sales...
How to Make Graphene from Pencils and Washing Liquid
There is not a single week that passes without the magic word, graphene, making its presence in the news. Ever since the discovery of...
How to Build a Wind Turbine for Under $30
The best way to save yourself a bit of money and at the same time do something good for the environment, is definitely to...
General Motors Meets the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry
The ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry, run by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is an encouragement for corporations to improve efficiency and reduce their...
Toilet Hydropower: Scientists Developing New Source of Energy
With all the horrendous warnings that climatologists are issuing, urging us to stop wasting fresh water, everyone with a clear mind should be looking...
Apple Campus 100% Renewable Corporate Headquarters
The new Apple headquarters may look odd, but it’s also a very smart building, capable of being fully-powered by renewable energy, not to mention...
Ridiculous – Guy Pees in Reservoir, Portland Drains 38 Million Gallons of Potable Water
Open-air reservoirs are slowly becoming a thing of the past, judging from what Portland did to its thirty-eight million gallon reservoir of potable water...
What Is Graphene, Anyway?
We’ve covered graphene on this site a number of times, but of course, what is it? Where does it come from? What does it...
