Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde is not a stranger to the art of combining solar energy with art and architecture... These first few shy steps into incorporating solar energy and utilizing it for our everyday lives, in order to make them more beautiful, but most of all, more practical and energy-conservative, shows not only great promise but also great ambition. His recent project for…
As sure as the night follows the day, energy prices seem to rise year after year. Because of this, you have to be more frugal with how you heat your home. For many people, this means simply not heating their homes as much and simply putting up with the cold, this can be detrimental to health and those seriously struggling to pay energy…
A disaster has a tendency to strike when we least expect it. A natural (or man-made) disaster rarely gives you a warning before turning everything you know and love upside down, leaving you with very little to protect you against its elements. The general contents of an emergency DIY disaster survival depend on the location you live in. Some of the basic components…
There are no mistakes in this world, we are all part of a universal masterpiece. We are bigger than you think, we are bigger than we have been conditioned to believe. As we move through the evolution of thought we are beginning to remember that there is more, we are beginning to remember that we are the creators. In order to create reality,…
We all know that being good to the environment is the right thing to do, for ourselves and for future generations. But it can seem like to make a big impact on the environment you have to do something extraordinary and potentially expensive like buying a hybrid car, having solar panels fitted or only buying more expensive locally sourced food. Big gestures may…
A car called the Quant e-Sportlimousine and presented at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show is the first electric car powered by saltwater and is now certified for use on European public roads. "For the first time an automobile featuring flow-cell electric drive will appear on Germany’s roads," said Nunzio La Vecchia, chief technical officer at NanoFlowcell, a company that designed the car. "We…
In the state of Ceara, which is in the northeastern part of Brasil is one of the first wave energy converters for Latin America. This 2012 project features a land secured system that reaches into the ocean and harvests the motion of the waves, converting the kinetic energy into clean electricity. The project was done by the submarine laboratory at Coppe , developed…
Here’s some news from Africa that will be of interest to all of the people waiting in line for gas to use in their generators after Hurricane Sandy. Four teenage girls figured out a way to use a liter of urine as fuel to get six hours of electricity from their generator. Fourteen-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, and Faleke Oluwatoyin, and 15-year-old Bello…