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Urban farming: growing vegetables on the rooftop of a car park

Effie P — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:45:47 +0000

Singapore is a small country in South-East Asia–practically a city state, where the urban centre dominates most of the island. Land is a scarce resource and agriculture is limited, contributing less than 1% of the country’s GDP. Understandably, the country has turned to technology to support its local production. A new 1800m2 rooftop farm has […]

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Cochin Airport, India – World’s First Fully Powered by Solar Panels

Mila Luleva — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:51:37 +0000

Cochin International Airport in Kerala, India, is the first ever airport to be completely powered by solar. There are many success stories when it comes to solar- people going off grid thanks to their rooftop solar power, giant companies funding and co-financing big solar arrays to account for their energy consumption. However, nothing is quite as […]

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India Expands Solar Cover With the “Rent-a-Roof” Concept

Satya Sivani — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:25:38 +0000

Indian electric companies are using the ‘Make in India Week‘ campaign to encourage potential customers to rent out their rooftops to host solar panels. Last Saturday, the Prime minister of India, Sri Narendra Modi has started the ‘Make in India week’ exhibition in Mumbai to attract huge investments in various sectors. Around 2500 international and […]

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All About Solar Power

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:08:58 +0000

Solar power is undeniably the way of the future for energy. It allows us to harness a free, everlasting power source and convert it to electricity in order to keep our modern lives comfortable and pollution-free. But although we think of solar power as a cutting-edge technology, it is not really a new concept. The sun […]

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Apple’s Operations in Singapore Fully Powered by Sunlight

Mila Luleva — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:44:45 +0000

Tech giant Apple announced that all their operations in Singapore will be powered by sunlight. The guys at Apple have made quite a solid long-term commitment to green energy, and it seems they are not likely to bail out. In a recent announcement, the tech gurus revealed a new contract with Sunseap Group, Singapore’s city-state […]

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Solar and Wind Don’t Need Subsidies, Says US Energy Secretary

Annika Tostengard — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:21:00 +0000

The Energy Secretary for the United States, Ernest Moniz, thinks that the costs of producing solar and wind energy have fallen so low that they would be competitive with oil and gas even without the subsidies they currently receive from the government. Moniz, who was trained as a nuclear physicist, explained to reporters that while the […]

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Mercedes-Benz Home Battery Challenges Tesla’s Powerwall

Mila Luleva — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:38:46 +0000

Daimler, the company that provides batteries for the electric and hybrid vehicles of Mercedes-Benz, is taking on Tesla in developing energy storage systems for homes and businesses. Renewable energy is growing stronger by the minute, as new gigantic wind or solar farms are continuously popping-up at more and more locations. But these are not the […]

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Micro-Wind Turbine Array Powers Intel’s Headquarters

Mila Luleva — Fri, 22 May 2015 19:17:51 +0000

The roof of Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California is generating renewable energy with the largest micro-turbine array in the US. Renewable energy generating rooftops are almost always associated with solar, but this does not necessarily have to be the case, and the guys from the IT giant Intel are demonstrating just that. Following their ambition to […]

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How CoolFarm Brings Smart Agriculture to Your Home

Mila Luleva — Fri, 01 May 2015 18:32:31 +0000

Adjusting the conditions under which crops grow, according to their specific needs, might be the only way to secure food resources in the future, especially if this can be done on a balcony of a small flat. Not possible, you would say? Meet the guys who do it – CoolFarm. In the light of climate change, securing […]

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A Positive Look on Climate Change

Mila Luleva — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:41:45 +0000

With all that is happening around us- droughts, floods, hurricanes, food and water scarcity, it is quite difficult to be positive about climate change. But, when I was asked to comment on the topic “How a society on the brink of collapse due to climate change will cope in the future?”, I realized there is […]

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Swedish City Rents Bikes for Free to Make You Leave the Car Behind

Mila Luleva — Sat, 24 May 2014 10:55:51 +0000

If you liked the news about Madrid offering electric bikes for rent to make people leave the car at home, wait until you read this. The Swedish city of Gothenburg is not wasting time with persuading people to pay for cycling. Instead, they are simply giving the bikes for free for a period of six months, […]

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Two Residential Towers Will Clean Mumbai’s Air, Just Like Trees

Mila Luleva — Thu, 15 May 2014 14:34:10 +0000

With urban air pollution becoming a huge problem in many major cities around the world, engineers, scientists and architects are testing and trying numerous unconventional ideas and solutions. One such project comes from a Denmark-based company, 3XN, where lead architects have designed buildings that act as trees. The so-called Grove Towers will erect in Mumbai, […]

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Green Rooftop Farms: Solution to Depleting Food Resources and Urban Green Spaces

Mila Luleva — Sat, 03 May 2014 11:31:08 +0000

Food security is one of the most pressing issues that governments around the world will have to tackle, as outlined in the latest IPCC report. Depleting resources due to climate change, coupled with the rapid growth in population size, urge scientists and various organizations to find new and sometimes not-so conventional solutions. A newly emerging […]

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Mobile Robots Could Reduce Costs of Solar Power

Maria Reyes — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:47:16 +0000

Solar power remains the most viable option in the fight to replace fossil fuels. Yet, it still accounts for less than two percent of the world’s total electrical output, despite a drastic decrease in the prices of solar panels. In a bid to make solar power more economical, two companies in Germany have developed mobile […]

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New Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Prototype Built for Cities’ Low Speed Winds

Maria Reyes — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:13:49 +0000

A prototype for a brand new design of wind turbine was installed at Keele University Science and Business Park in the UK. The new design is especially adapted for use in urban settings. It could someday be ubiquitous in the city landscape when office and residential buildings incorporate this technology in their rooftops to harness […]

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Carbonized Chicken Feathers Better Than Carbon Nanotubes at Storing Hydrogen

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:04:42 +0000

Delaware University scientists have found that not only the latest hi-tech nanotubes or metal composites can store hydrogen effectively, but also a substance that's been around for millions of years, naturally: carbonized keratin.

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