As the latest innovation in green technology and water desalination, comes the Solar Cube (aka Spectra Solar Brackish Water System). Producing 950 to 1500 gallons of water daily, it can be used in disaster areas, such as hurricane affected sites. Not only this, the solar cells attached to the Cube can produce up to 1240W. It also has a wind generator that helps with energy production up to another 1000W.
Utilizing Spectra’s highly efficient Clark Pump technology it minimizes energy consumption & provides extra electricity to power other devices. Having advantages like rapid installation it provides Off-the-Grid water purification and has point-of-entry water filtration capabilities. Adding to this once deployed and in operation, no fuel or fuel delivery costs are incurred. Like all the inventions of our days, the Cube has been already tested by the army and the civilian services of Chile. Likewise, it has been imported in remote areas of South America and Asia. Early prototype models were used in Pakistan after the major 1995 earthquake.

The users say it performs well - it has a recovery rate of about 30% and it produces quality water, with less than 170mg/L of seawater in it. Hence this popular “off the grid” solution can be used for military applications & civil defense and creates drinking water and electricity anywhere at any time.
Via Cleantechnica

A beer that’s green!!! Sounds absurd? Well don’t be too surprised. After organic and biodynamic wine it is green beer that is making news these days.
Going by the name of Cascade Green, this organic beer company manufactures the fuzzy liquor in Tasmania Australia with a commitment towards a greener life. Their special product is called ‘Beer of the Earth’ as Cascade Green has been consistently working for over 6 years to reduce the energy and water consumption by 16% and 30% respectively in the manufacturing process.
The website is an extremely vibrant affair. But you have to be more than 18 years of age to access it. Here I read about the brewery’s green location that is surrounded by 250 hectares of pristine forest with Mount Wellington in the backdrop. The company is doing its best to maintain the beauty of the natural surroundings. And it is also taking special care to neutralise carbon emissions by purchasing carbon offsets.
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Solar parking lots have been discussed many a times by the environmental technologists. The concept speaks of putting photovoltaic arrays and parking lots together so that sunlight can be harnessed. Then again, the array functions like a canopy thus providing shade to the cars. After much talks, finally someone paid attention. A Silicon Valley manufacturer that goes by the name of Applied Materials has incorporated a solar parking lot in its campus. Since the company makes semiconductors, LCD displays among other high-tech equipment, the solar energy harnessed basically will contribute to their energy uses.

Such parking lots will be a blessing for electric cars and with the demand growing for the latter, the parking system will need to be updated with the photovoltaic arrays. After all what does a solar parking lot need but just sunlight! The benefits are plenty.

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Technology going ecofriendly is the best one could ask for. But if it brings foliage straight into your house-Bingo! Sara Rossbach has planted an innovative green concept for today’s energy consuming lifestyle. She has come up with a décor for your window that is dubbed as Leaf Shade. Leaf Shade utilizes sun’s energy to power up a house and at the same time acts as a screen to keep away the glaring sun. This leafy shade too just like real leaves absorbs the sun rays.

But the shade doesn’t prepare food for itself. It is tweaked to power your home with solar energy instead. Made of two layers, the prime solar film layer is fitted with a battery and does the actual job of energizing your abode with all the goodness of the sun. The other layer is fabric that is dressed with cutouts that give an impression of sunlight passing through the leaves. With the concrete jungles spreading like wildfire erasing all the greens from the face of the earth, this Leaf Shade would also remind you every moment to conserve our lush greens.

A very interesting and style of green décor and eco-energy, one would agree. This one’s a must have for every eco-lover!

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On Ecoblog has already been treated Global warming as an argument that color the roofs of the houses in white is a good practice to lower the temperature on the planet. Now, however, is published a study (by physical Hashem Akbari of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory along with some experts at the University of California) that has provided some interesting numbers on the effectiveness of this application also include the usefulness of sidewalks. According to this research, if hypothetically the 100 biggest cities in the world installing roofs white and change the sidewalks with more reflective material, it would have a significant effect raffreddante. Let’s see why. The average percentage of area employment in the cities are very high, in fact around 25% as regards the roofs and 35% in case of sidewalks.

The data are clear: If you were to replace these materials with other reflective surfaces, it would save about 44 billion tons of greenhouse gases, or the amount of gas that all countries of the world emit in a year. The scientific explanation is that the solar radiation incident verrrebbe reflected in the form of short waves. The latter without the chance uscirebbero become so long, or heat, which on the contrary would be retained by the molecules of greenhouse gases.

This emerged from the data presented during the conference on climate change research in California. Such an application would offset more than 10 years of emissions, even without reducing those industries. Just in the American state, since 2005, has regulated that the flat structures are required to have roofs white.

One roof of about 90 square meters, the standard measure of an American house, Cut 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. Experts point to convince the UN to change the rooftops in major cities of the globe. The advantages, besides the already mentioned benefits on global warming, would be those with significant energy savings, lowering a few degrees in temperature in cities and major reduction of smog.

This is certainly a laudable position taken by scientists, although it probably would be first of all should do more analysis on the costs necessary for the implementation of a project like this.

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.

Energy Ball works on the principle of the Venturi Effect, making use of the change in fluid pressure at different points to produce motion. In simple terms, it acts a lot more effectively than wind turbines and is a lot more quiet and adept for city life. The wind turbine can be put on your roof or in your backyard, and it will start immediately producing energy. The efficiency is pretty high, and all that is achieved without changing the ergonomics of your home or your backyard in a major way.

While Energy Ball makes for a great wind turbine, we need more such wonderful designs which will harness other renewable sources with equal ease. So if and when you can get your hands on Energy Ball, just go for it.

Via Theenvironmentalage

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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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.

Unlike the conventional fossil fuels employing boilers, these home energy wood boilers are fully automated and appealing as well. Within the power range of 12 KW to 62 KW, these eco friendly boilers are apposite to congregate our home’s each and every energy requisite in effect.

Via HomeEnergy

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.

These revolving doors are so designed and put up into their place that simply an effortless human push would be enough for them in confining required force and converting it into electrical energy. Though small in amount yet the valuable power produced by this gyrating door concept would significantly help us in dealing with the swelling dearth of electricity.

So next time when you walk in through a door just take in that your kinetic worth is getting worn out which could otherwise be utilized for a green purpose if that’s not a gyrating door.

Via CoolGreenGadgets

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.

Exelon, the largest operator of nuclear power plants in the United States has filed a license application with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US-NRC) to build two new nuclear power plants near Victoria, Texas. When operating, the plants will produce zero units of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, sulfur oxides, and fly ash. The Boiling Water Reactors will each produce approximately 1,500 MW of electric power.
It is worth noting that a 3,000 MW power station operating at an average capacity factor of 90% - which is typical for a US nuclear power plant - can produce more than 23 million MW-hours of electricity each year.

If you factor in the current costs of power in Texas then this turns out to be a gold mine waiting to be dug up even in terms of the economy of it all. Of Course, it will also mean that the local economy will thrive with more jobs as well. But what about the nuclear waste? I guess for now we will have to like with it and it could be far easier to dispose of it rather than deal with more CO2 at present. All in all, it is thumbs up for the new giant project.

Via Cleantechnica