Michael Ricciardi, Author at CleanTechnica

Michael Ricciardi

Michael Ricciardi is a well-published writer of science/nature/technology articles as well as essays, poetry and short fiction. Michael has interviewed dozen of scientists from many scientific fields, including Brain Greene, Paul Steinhardt, Arthur Shapiro, and Nobel Laureate Ilya Progogine (deceased). Michael was trained as a naturalist and taught ecology and natural science on Cape Cod, Mass. from 1986-1991. His first arts grant was for production of the environmental (video) documentary 'The Jones River - A Natural History', 1987-88 (Kingston, Mass.). Michael is an award winning, internationally screened video artist. Two of his more recent short videos; 'A Time of Water Bountiful' and 'My Name is HAM' (an "imagined memoir" about the first chimp in space), and several other short videos, can be viewed on his website (http://www.chaosmosis.net). He is also the author of the (Kindle) ebook: Artful Survival ~ Creative Options for Chaotic Times

Climate Change

Kids Win In Global Warming Lawsuit Against US Government

Originally published on Planetsave. Juliana v. U.S. Government And the winners are … today’s children (the plaintiffs) … and future generations (the ultimate winners)....

Michael RicciardiApril 15, 2016

Energy Efficiency

Picking Up Good Vibrations – Tiny Energy Harvester is Most Powerful Yet

Recently, electrical engineers at the University of Michigan, have perfected a device that can harness ambient, mechanical vibrations and convert these into electricity at...

Michael RicciardiMay 25, 2011

Agriculture

‘Plantagons’, New Vertical Farm Design, May Provide Produce for Future Cities

Vertical farm concepts for the urban environment are not new, but now, a Swedish-American architectural design company (Plantagon) seems to have solved once of...

Michael RicciardiApril 16, 2011

Clean Power

Solar ‘Energy Telescope’ Focuses on More Output, Less Cost

A University of Arizona engineering team led by Roger Angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of...

Michael RicciardiFebruary 26, 2011

Consumer Technology

Award-Winning Inventor Makes Fuel from Plastic Bags

What most of us see as the ubiquitous blight of modern convenience consumerism, i.e., littered plastic shopping bags, Japanese inventor Akinori Ito sees as...

Michael RicciardiFebruary 14, 2011

Manufacturing

New Thin Film Material Promises Power Generating Windows

In what is considered to be a first in new materials science, a team of engineers at the Brookhaven and Los Alamos National Laboratories...

Michael RicciardiJanuary 26, 2011

Consumer Technology

Eco-Artist Creates 'Puff' Device to Monitor Car Emissions

Puff (a car exhaust monitoring device) is attached near the exhaust pipe of your vehicle. Its color changes dynamically, visualizing the amount of pollution...

Michael RicciardiNovember 23, 2009

Clean Power

UW Engineers Invent First Tree-Powered Circuit

In a first, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a completely tree-powered electrical circuit. The nano-scale device—approximately 130 nanometers [a...

Michael RicciardiSeptember 10, 2009

Biofuels

New Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst Discovered

Hydrogen (H) fuel cell technology could perhaps become the cleanest form of energy, both in terms of generating the gas and in terms of...

Michael RicciardiFebruary 11, 2009