cooling technology Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:52:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 MIT Student Builds Electricity-Free Cooling Technology https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electricity-free-cooling-mit/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electricity-free-cooling-mit/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:52:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54561 Evaptainers is a portable cooling system, which runs solely on water and sunlight- no electricity or toxic chemicals needed. Keeping things cool is often considered kind of a given by many of us. Regardless of how many articles are written and appeals are filed in order to raise awareness of electricity consumption, pollution, and the effects on our […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electricity-free-cooling-mit/feed/ 1 54561 Nuclear Power Plants Vulnerable to Effects of Climate Change https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nuclear-plants-climate-change-vulnerable-20110524/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nuclear-plants-climate-change-vulnerable-20110524/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 15:18:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18790 Lately, nuclear power has proven itself vulnerable not to terrorist attacks, but to nature itself. Disasters such as the well-known from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan raise questions about how safe nuclear power really is and how current and future plants will be able to cope with climate change.

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