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ADAK Trailer – The Ultimate Off-Grid Camping Adventure

Mila Luleva — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:39:37 +0000

If you are looking for a camping adventure, which is more than a couple of weeks long and away from muggles, then your best bet would be on a mobile, off-grid camper design. The market offers quite a number of these, but nothing is quite as complete as the new ADAK Trailer– here is why. ADAK […]

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Dynamic Demonstration Platform Enables Green Building Architects to Test Their Designs

Mila Luleva — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:07:49 +0000

Swiss researchers have developed a dynamic demonstration platform, called NEST, which can assist green building designers with providing a real-world conditions for testing their latest innovations in the field of renewable energy systems and building modules. The construction of the NEST is starting very soon, and it is expected to be fully completed by 2015. […]

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Self-generation of Power Means Free Electricity, Swedish Engineers Prove

Mila Luleva — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 19:12:26 +0000

A team from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm developed a series of solar-powered concepts that stimulate users to produce and store their own energy. Besides having great innovative ideas, the team implements a new marketing strategy- free electricity! The ‘User-friendly local electricity production’ project is part of the Green Leap initiative. Funded […]

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Shape-Changing Solar Lamp is a Robot Claw Look-alike

Mike Sandru — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:45:39 +0000

Lenka Czereova has designed a rather interesting-looking solar lamp. The design will be most appealing to those with a taste in futuristic gadgets. The lamp consists of three arms, which can be arranged in such a way that the lamp becomes a new shape. Explaining the feature, Yanko Design stated that the three bendable arms […]

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Floating Autark Home a Model of Self-Sufficiency

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:17:48 +0000

Passivhaus buildings, synonymous with energy efficiency and reduced ecological footprints, are becoming a staple in Europe. Once found on land, Passivhaus homes are now increasingly found in the water. The Autark Home, docked in Masstrict, Netherlands, is one of these floating green homes. The houseboat is completely solar-powered and is 10 times more energy efficient […]

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SeaOrbiter: The First Ever Futuristic Marine Research Vessel Two-Thirds Underwater

Mike Sandru — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:50:38 +0000

So much of what the oceans contain is still unknown to us today and considering they make up 80% of our planet, it’s a lot! That’s all about to start changing once The SeaOrbiter will tower the water – the first vertical ship in the world to study the pelagic ecosystem, plankton biodiversity, and fish […]

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NEWEN: Totally Portable Wind/Solar Harvesting Unit Design

Mike Sandru — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:19:06 +0000

Argentinean designer Francisco Tablado has recently designed an autonomous power unit dubbed NEWEN that taps into green electricity for all of your power needs while camping. It is also capable of providing energy to temporary shelters and housing units.

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Japan to Build a New Building-Type Wind Energy Generator

Mike Sandru — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:40:20 +0000

Wind power is the transformation of wind energy into a usable and universally-accepted form of energy, such as electricity. Wind turbines are used to make electricity, while wind mills are used for mechanical power or sails to propel ships.

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