Apparently, waste is not only an earth-based problem as NASA is also trying to figure out how to deal with waste produced in space and how to recycle these into new parts. The scientists at NASA are plotting a...
The Sliced Porosity Block in China has been declared finished by Steven Holl Architects. The building, which was designed with daylighting in mind, is made up of five irregular structures interspersed with open spaces to allow light to reach...
Starting Thursday, Starbucks has begun implementing plans to introduce a $1 reusable plastic cup in several of its coffee shops in order to decrease the amount of waste it produces from their usual paper cups.
This comes after the coffee...
Water vapor condensed on metal plates, also known as condensers, is the main driving mechanism in most industrial power plants. Depending on how easy these droplets form and how fast they fall to free space for new droplets, the...
The Hiriko Fold started out as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology project exploring electric vehicles and urban mobility.
Spain and MIT have been collaborating on making the Hiriko a reality, and right now, the Hiriko is being field...
Even though BYD's electric vehicle sales in China haven't been anywhere near where they would like them to be, they've had their plans to get into the lucrative US EV market for years. Back as far as 2008,...
One of the greatest challenges in front of transport infrastructure engineers, who aim to design electric locomotives, is to find a cost effective and efficient way to extend battery life. The example that illustrates this is the first all-electric,...
The aim of Calderon-Folch-Sarsanedas (CFS) Arquitectes, who are based in Barcelona, is to make "conscious" architecture which bears in mind environmental and social responsibilities.
It is with these goals in mind that CFS took up plans to refurbish a 1918...
Taking electric vehicles on long-distance trips is not something for the faint-hearted. While range anxiety remains a very real obstruction to some, others consider this as only a temporary stumbling block as with adequate preparation and determination, these can...
Cell phones have become ubiquitous in the modern world. They seem to be everywhere and everyone seems to have one. While hailed as a technological wonder, these cell phones are creating a massive e-waste problem.
The US Center for Disease...
