new building material Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:48:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Eco-Friendly Restaurant Has Air-purifying Walls Made of Salt https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eco-friendly-restaurant-air-purifying-walls-made-salt-20150122/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eco-friendly-restaurant-air-purifying-walls-made-salt-20150122/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:48:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=51461 Iranian restaurant, built from salt, sets a new trend in eco-friendly building and design. The salt is derived from local salt mines and a salt lake and has double function- ‘green’ building material and air-purifier. The idea for the clever design belongs to the team at Emtiaz Designing Group, who decided to implement it for a first […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eco-friendly-restaurant-air-purifying-walls-made-salt-20150122/feed/ 0 51461 New Phase Change Material Offers Huge Energy Savings in Buildings https://www.greenoptimistic.com/phase-change-heat-regulating-material-20110804/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/phase-change-heat-regulating-material-20110804/#respond Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:28:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19971 The novel non-deformed energy storage phase change material (PCM), as the scientists dubbed it, can efficaciously regulate heat, by virtue of its large energy storage capacity. The best part is that it could be cheaply manufactured.

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