Are you one of the sorts that thinks that 3D printing, spaceships to Mars, and genetically engineered food are going to save people from ever having any difficulty in their lives? A modern technological solution to everything that makes comfortable middle class people uneasy? Well then, you’ll probably be interested … [continued]
3D printing will involve failed projects. The Cruncher is designed to pelletize those failures, and other forms of plastic waste, in usable filament.
A completely functional 3D printable graphene battery — one based on graphene nanoplatelet functionalized 3D printing filament — was recently developed by researchers at Graphene 3D Lab. The new prototype 3D printable graphene battery was unveiled at the recent Inside 3D Printing Conference that took place in Santa Clara, California. … [continued]
A new 3D-printed battery prototype from the aptly named company Graphene 3D lab embeds “nanoplatelets” of graphene in polymer filaments for 3D printing.
Time for another solar energy news roundup. Enjoy! 3D printing of solar panels may soon be coming to a home near you. (Solar Love) Duke Energy is investing $500 million into solar power in North Carolina. (Solar Love) Goldman Sachs is offering solar PV financing for lower than banks in Japan. (Planetsave) … [continued]
RenewEconomy Last year, in an interview with Stanford University’s Tony Seba, we foreshadowed the remarkable conclusions of his new book: that energy and transportation as we know it will be history by 2030. That book, the Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, is now published, and it has even more dramatic prognosis: Silicon Valley … [continued]
In the field of LED optics, one recent improvement has barely been announced, but on the very heels of that another refinement of LED is in progress. Some engineers and their adept associates recently finished the design of efficient 3D printers (for LED OPTICS), but the LUXeXceL engineers and their … [continued]
Creating your own 3-D printer filament from old used milk jugs is exponentially cheaper, and uses considerably less energy, than buying new filament, according to new research from Michigan Technological University. Not really a surprise of course, but the numbers are. The savings are really quite impressive — 99 cents … [continued]
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. When a group of college students couldn’t get access to an affordable 3D printer at their schools, they didn’t let that get in their way, but instead built their own, and the resulting version ended up being faster, more efficient, and a fraction of the cost … [continued]
Lux Research has published list of the “Top Emerging Technology Companies in 2012,” and the list is full of cleantech companies — solar, grid storage, bio-based materials, energy efficiency, and more. Well, it’s no surprise, cleantech is clearly one of the fastest growing segments of the market, and one of … [continued]
