Scientists at GE’s global research labs have adapted jet engine technology to create a super-thin cooling device that will keep your tablets cool no matter the weather or usage. “It’s like a pair of lungs, it contracts and expands,” says Peter deBock, lead thermal systems engineer at GE Global … [continued]
Developed by German designers – Andreas Meinhardt and Daniel Abendroth – Hagent is a sort of mobile space heater. Only, instead of plugging into the wall […]
German citizens must get colder every winter — according to co2online GmbH, the amount of energy used to heat residential buildings has decreased by 22% since 2002, sinking from 161 kWh/m2/year to 126 kWh/ m2/year. The company claims it has collected data from over a million homes.
By 2020, we will use more energy storing all of our virtual lives “on the cloud” than we will by flying in airplanes. As we all add more and more of all of our all-too-easily-uploaded data to humanity’s ever growing attic where all our virtual stuff is stored, the need … [continued]
This is one I haven’t seen floating around yet. Personal carbon credits. A new website helps you to cash-in on reducing your carbon emissions through home solar panels, wind turbines, more energy efficiency, etc. And it is up and running. You reduce your home energy usage, report it to them, … [continued]
After a good 20,000 years out of caves, we are heading back to them – and just like your worst fears, it’s the damn global warmers leading the way.
A Swedish town announced last month that it will use cremated bodies to provide heat, and now the British town of Reepham has decided to heat many of its buildings by burning oil made from melted cow and pig carcasses. Are dead bodies— human or otherwise— the next big thing … [continued]
Millions of people around the world heat their homes with charcoal burned on small grills. Now a group of Japanese scientists has developed a biomass charcoal combustion heater with a thermal efficiency of 60-81 percent— a big step up from current biomass stoves, which have an efficiency of 46-53 percent.
