Tag Archive | "Environment"

Bimotrik Could Become The Car Of The Future Though Peugeot Ignored It


Although this car didn’t make it to the 29 finalists of the 2008 Peugeot Design Contest, I think that it deserved some attention because it could be a car of the future thanks to its nice design and also because it’s a green car. The three-wheeled concept car is called Bimotrik and it was designed [...]

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Energy Giant To Build CO2 Emissions-Free Coal Power Plant


Vattenfall is one of the biggest energy company in Europe. The problem is that they produce coal-based energy which produces high amounts of CO2 that harm the environment and cause global warming. Now, thanks to a new project, Vattenfall will be able to produce coal-based energy without any CO2 emissions.
Seems pretty unbelievable but Lars Josefsson, [...]

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Next-Generation Marine Turbine - THAWT


Probably by now you already know that in the future fossil fuels will no longer be used as they harm our planet therefore researchers are trying to design cheaper and more efficient ways to harness renewable energies. Solar, wind and tidal power are the best solution for the moment and these were improved greatly during [...]

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World’s First Solar-Powered Ship To Be Completed In December


Well, it seems like not only the cars of the future will be powered by solar energy as two Japanese companies unveiled a project consisting of world’s first solar powered ship. Nippon Yusen KK and Nippon Oil Corp said the the ship will be just “partially solar-powered” thanks to the solar panels and each will [...]

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MIT Researchers Develop Microbatteries Made Of Viruses


After all viruses are good for something as scientists from MIT, Cambridge have developed a battery which will be used to power a tiny electronic devices to better administer medicine. This tiny battery was created thanks to a genetically-engineered virus called M13 as they were looking for a virus that has negatively-charged amino-acids and which [...]

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