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A crowdfunding campaign from a company called SunPort is seeking funding for an outlet extender that offsets the carbon footprint of whatever device is being powered. It looks like a typical converter for electrical outlets, but instead of making a two-prong...
Donald Trump has a history of speaking out against wind power. The businessman, whose mother was a Scottish immigrant, had previously complained about wind turbines ruining the Scottish countryside. He also took legal action against an offshore wind farm near the...
DIY solar tracker by SunSaluter uses water and gravity to boost solar panel efficiency. It filters water too. We know by now that solar tracking systems boost efficiency of solar panels incredibly. This has been demonstrated by quite a number...
The Wi-Fi Reflector Chip, which has been developed for wearable devices by the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), together with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), reflects wireless signals instead of using regular transmitters and receivers. While wearable gadgets are...
Unless the effects of climate change are mitigated soon, then private investors will lose an estimated $4.2tn by 2100. This is true even if the global average temperature remains at the current 2 degrees Celsius. If the temperature continues to...
It was an unusually windy day in Denmark on Thursday, July 9. So unusually windy that the country found themselves generating 116% of the entire nation's energy needs. On Friday morning at 3am, Denmark wind power had provided 140% of...
A new FERC estimate says 18% of the electricity used by the United States in June came from renewable sources, and 98% of new electricity sources built in the same month were sources of renewable power, Zach from CleanTechnica reports. While...
SALt LED lamp can provide light in the most remote places using only a glass of salt water. In many parts of the world, the most simplest of gadgets can make the biggest difference. Projects, such as the WakaWaka lights,...
Affordable but high-capacity batteries are becoming a thing of the present, and not the future anymore, as manufacturers strive to make battery technology better. Meanwhile, electric automobile manufacturer Tesla is looking even farther into the future, where expensive batteries are...
First Toyota hydrogen fuel cell bus is currently under testing in Tokyo, Japan, in preparation for market launch. Over the past few years, we have had quite a fair share of test hydrogen fuel buses at various locations around the...