LEGO Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:12:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Sustainable Legos to Replace their Plastic Cousins by 2030 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sustainable-legos-2030/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sustainable-legos-2030/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:12:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55531 News has it that LEGO is planning to find a sustainable alternative to make its iconic plastic blocks with, for which it is going to spend DKK1 billion. Legos, those fine, multi-colored plastic blocks – look simple, but together, they can be built up into many complex structures. For nearly four generations, they have served […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sustainable-legos-2030/feed/ 0 55531 Twelve Year-Old Shubham Banerjee Makes Fully Functioning Braille Printer From LEGO https://www.greenoptimistic.com/shubham-banerjee-lego-braille-printer-20140218/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/shubham-banerjee-lego-braille-printer-20140218/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:24:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45996 It is fascinating what youngsters can come up with in their spare time. Leaving aside those, who find a million different ways to make trouble, the unpolluted minds of some kids can produce an idea worth a fortune. One such example is Shubham Banerjee, a twelve-year-old boy from California, who made a fully functioning braille […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/shubham-banerjee-lego-braille-printer-20140218/feed/ 2 45996 First Ever Full-Size Air-Powered LEGO Car Hits the Streets of Melbourne https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lego-air-car-melbourne-20131218/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lego-air-car-melbourne-20131218/#comments Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:02:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=44586 All you need is 500,000 Lego bricks, and you can have a brand new air-powered full-sized car, that moves as fast as a scooter. You don’t believe it? Well, the Australian guru Steve Sammartino and the Romanian genius Raul Oaida made it possible and they even drove the super cool vehicle on the streets of Melbourne. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lego-air-car-melbourne-20131218/feed/ 1 44586 Nanoscale “LEGO” Setup of Aluminum Studs Improves Solar Cell Efficiency https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nanoscale-lego-aluminum-solar-cell-efficiency-20131023/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nanoscale-lego-aluminum-solar-cell-efficiency-20131023/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:04:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42749 Most often, precious metals like gold and silver are used in solar cell efficiency. Now, an international research team has found that aluminum may be the better option. They demonstrated that a nanoscale LEGO-style setup of aluminum studs can improve solar cell efficiency by up to 22 percent. Aluminum is already cheap and abundant, and […]

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