Articles tagged with: Energy
Posted in Energy, Environment, Wind on 5 September 2008
Wind Energy really seems to be gathering wind as a viable alternate option in the last couple of years and people are starting to use it alongside solar energy to get the best possible results. But the major problem in harnessing wind energy has traditionally been the use of tall and huge wind turbines which do not fit in to modern city patterns and also require considerable and consistent wind for production of energy. But designers and engineers have put an end to that problem by creating wind turbines that suit the urban lifestyle and ‘Energy Ball’ might be the best of the lot.
Posted in Eco-Friendly, Electricity, Energy on 5 September 2008
This weird, somewhat like flower shaped inimitable contrivance featured here is nothing but an adaptable lamp model freshly projected by a pioneering designer named Chris Natt. It’s in actuality a form changing, intriguing lantern which is knocked with distinctive robotic traits.
Taking into contemplation the prevailing ambient light conditions this three-axis geared lamp marked Stimuli 3.0 would automatically tune the lighting intensity. Moreover if ganged up with little energy efficient LEDs the intact mechanism may perhaps be twisted out into a pretty energy saving concept too.
This exceptionally designed lamp archetype would certainly entertain as well as poser its audience as and when it will alter its shape. Subsequently this peculiar lightening artifact if devoid of disquieting sounds and bangs and tagged with a contemptible price would unquestionably thumps on the market place in coming days.
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Posted in Energy, Fuel, Technology on 5 September 2008
If we go by natural facts then it’s absolutely accurate that we would on no account be competent to neutralize carbon effects of wood burning in our lives but we may possibly accept this and make the most of it in newly designed wood boilers. The concept revealed here articulates that these pioneering boilers breed out only that much of carbon dioxide by burning wood which a customary and natural decay process of woods in forests would do. Putting this in another way we can say that without augmenting in the already established environmental carbon intensity levels, this new range of wood boilers bequeath us with much healthier green boiling option.
Posted in Electricity, Gadgets, Green, concept on 5 September 2008
Nowadays eco groups are exploring so much possibilities of kinetic energy which were quite unidentified to us few days back. Earlier nobody was sentient of this verity that one day human power would develop into such a resourceful and dynamic kinetic energy asset. An enormously innovative design of Revolution Door featured here is an unsullied illustration of this green energy progression proposed by Fluxxlab. These eco-power engendering doors would surely make populace comprehend the potential of kinetic energy on an outsized scale.
Posted in Energy, Plants, Power on 4 September 2008
This is the perfect conundrum that the world has to solve before we really move forward and look for new sources of energy and how we wish to develop them further. Nuclear Energy is without doubt a source that has immense potential. In fact, there could be a day when we could truly power up the city of New York for months with nothing but a glass of water (As so eloquently stated in ‘Chain Reaction’). But with what consequences? That is a question that we need to look at closely before we move any further.
Posted in Energy, Fuel, Solar, Technology on 4 September 2008
It was not too long ago that we saw an effort by the New Zealand Airways to try and convert Jatropha weed in to biofuel and while we have not heard any further story in that regard, we have the Arizona State University trying to convert Algae into Jet Fuel. An Arizona State University spinoff company has secured $3 million in public and private funds to advance its technology that converts algae to jet fuel. The brains behind the algae-to-jet-fuel amazing concept are ASU professors Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld, who head ASU’s Laboratory for Algae Research & Biotechnology.
Posted in Energy, Gadgets, Technology, concept on 3 September 2008
Kinetic power seems to be a very popular substitute to conventional sources of energy and human power is being more often used in places where batteries and small cells were earlier used. Today we have gadgets that power up MP3 players and other tiny yet useful stuff with the power produced by human motion. It need not be always deliberate though as your jog in the morning and your stint on your keyboard could power these gadgets as you continue with you own work. It is almost as if we are plugging them in to us for charge; ala The Matrix!
Posted in Automobiles, Car, Energy, Technology on 3 September 2008
Germany is a country that has vividly stamped a class of its own in the international arena with what the world considers as the unending quest for perfection. Germans are known to be hard taskmasters who strive for that final millisecond and that last millimeter of perfect design, form and function. It is something that comes up with German athletes, German technology and of course the ever green German beer. From that perfect lap of magic by Michael Schumacher to the precision of the Mercedes- it is all about power with grace and accuracy.
Posted in Energy, Environment, Green, Wind on 1 September 2008
It is nice to see that more South American nations are actively taking to production of alternate energy and with the immense natural resources the continent possesses; it will not be long before they start producing clean energy in a large way. South America is endowed with natural resources that are varied and unique and the continent is only now realizing its true potential. With vast open desert and plenty of Sunshine, Peru seems to be ideal to harness power from alternate sources.
Iberoperuana Inversiones plans to invest $240 million in a wind farm, which is projected to provide clean electricity for an estimated 80,000 families in Peru’s southern desert region of Paracas. The wind energy park will be located near the city of Ica and will be known as the “Parque Eólico San Andrés”. Iberoperuana Inversiones hopes that the park would already be generating 22 megawatts of energy by the end of this year.
Posted in Architecture, Eco-Friendly, Energy on 1 September 2008
This really is nothing beyond a symbolic way of saying that France intends to go green and that the French government is ready to embrace eco-friendly technology. But the good thing about cutting the sizzle off of the Eiffel Tower is that it is actually being acknowledged as just a ‘symbolic gesture’ and no one is trying to make a big deal out of it in terms of energy saving. While many might welcome the move, one could surely save plenty of power somewhere else rather than dim the lights on Paris’ most striking monuments.
Since January 1, 2000, every hour after dusk, the 20,000 bulbs twinkle brilliantly for ten minutes in what has become a tourist hit. But starting next month, Sete, the company subcontracted by Paris to run the tower, has decided to half the time the bulbs are on, cutting illumination from 400 to 200 hours per year. The decision is part of a plan to make the Eiffel tower and other monuments more environmentally friendly.