Liège’s new Olympic Ice Rink, which has the rather interesting look of a beached whale, was finally completed last month. L'Escaut Architecture are responsible for the design, which is located adjacent the Médiacité shopping mall by Ron Arad. With...
In a bid to help supplement the increasing power demand of today’s gadgets, Lilliputian Systems this week introduced their Nectar Mobile Power System during a CES event. The system combines the long life and convenience of fuel cells with...
Compared to its neighboring countries, Nicaragua has rather limited energy reserves, resulting in most of the commercial electricity having to be generated through imported petroleum and the rest generated from geothermal and hydropower.
However, with the current target of having...
A number of designers are competing to design the best practical emergency housing unit. Michel Antoun Zateef’s design of The Temporary Housing Unit is among the proposals to provide shelter for victims of property-damaging disasters.
No matter the kind of...
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) of the UK has chosen Blade Dynamics, a wind turbine developer also from the UK to design and develop the technology to build what would become the longest turbine blades in the world.
Measuring in...
True North Log Homes has constructed this quite marvellous structure from Quebec and north Ontario’s sustainably-grown white pine heartwood timber, which incidentally are also Forest Stewardship Council Certified.
Evoking memories of the breezy country log homes of a bygone era,...
New research coming from MIT’s Department of Materials science and engineering, reveals a technique that allows manipulation of heat so that it can be controlled as light waves.
The author, Martin Maldovan, a researcher at the institute, engineered materials that...
New material, created by MIT engineers, absorbs tiny amounts of water vapor. This process changes the shape of the material and initiates a continuous motion, harvesting enough energy to power nanoelectronic devices.
According to says Mingming Ma, a postdoc at...
A new report entitled ‘Global Food: Waste not, want not’, published this week showed that almost half of the food produced each ear gets thrown away. Considering that around 870 million people in poorer countries are underfed, according to...
In an effort to lessen electricity usage, the US Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with the International Clean Energy Coalition, is sponsoring a contest to find the more efficient energy-saving monitors.
This initiative is part of the Clean Energy...
