Here is another biomimicry for generating power from the ocean – BioSTREAM, imitating shark or tuna tails. This new tail-like generator is designed to oscillate back and forth in ocean currents, and not to rotate like a turbine.
To convert the...
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Coming up with the latest in advanced technologies to stay ahead of competition, FOR Japanese electronics company Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd. Has also shown its responsibility towards the environment by embarking on various eco-friendly...
The demands for alternative oil and concerns for the environment increasing worldwide, so is the need for commercial production of bio-diesel to meet it! The Diversa Corporation’s Purifine enzyme is capable of increasing the efficiency of oilseed...
After ages of experimentations with sustainable plastics, it is found to have been a curse for the environment – especially as post-consumer landfills. With the concerns increasing, biodegradable plastics have come to stay on the market.
But,...
New hopes for the environmentalists and conservationists – The United States’ native grass seed harvesting may now change the native grass seed market and help restore wildlands dramatically.
A better native grass seed harvester has been developed...
Pix: A National Weather Service weather balloon, right, sits ready for launch in the Upper Air Inflation Building at the National Weather Service, Thursday, April 27, 2006 in Sterling, Va.
A 6-foot helium balloon, not for an advertisement display,...
Here is an innovative, eco-friendly and sufficiently cost effective way to return to wind-powered shipping, as sail ship designs have often failed on various factors, and mostly that they have to rely on unpredictable weather.
And above all, hike...
Exhibition -- This is undoubtedly a sensitive and effective platform to aware masses on any needed actions. Perhaps, thinking on these lines, a group of Indianapolis artists is planning a special exhibition on protecting the environment.
The...
How much do you know about water? I you think, you know almost all, u might be wrong! Check out with this. Scientists claim to have created a totally new alloy of hydrogen and oxygen molecules by splitting water!
According to them, the new alloy is a...
To help countries develop more energy-efficient electricity transmission and distribution networks, a new five-year international co-operation and collaboration program -- IEA Implementing Agreement -- Electricity Networks Analysis, Research and...
A bus company in Sao Paulo has geared up to paint South America's largest city “green”! It is powering its 1,900 buses -- about a quarter of Sao Paulo's entire bus fleet -- with a new biofuel-n-diesel mix. Hope this effort will not only help curb...
It seems, very soon, tyres filled with nitrogen, and not air will be common, as Parker Hannifin Corporation and Get Nitrogen Institute -- a non-profit organization -- have joined hands to promote the use of nitrogen tyres.
The use of nitrogen in...
With ethanol as the present buzzword for the oil-producing industries, and the world concerned with the effects of global warming, ethanol derived from corn stover i.e. cellulosic ethanol will soon be found in the global market. And, with gasoline’s...
Pix: Lions learning to chase with the help of a robot! (Credit: KNBC TV, Los Angeles)
Though it is a natural instinct for lions living in the wild to chase prey for their survival, thins are not the same for ones who are served with their day’s...
While on one hand, a summer thunderstorm generally provides needed rainfall in a region, also providing a relief from heat waves, on the other, there are others that bring large hail, destructive winds, and tornadoes.
Forecasting that is necessary...
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