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Wireless tree-shaped charger with LED pegs for your interiors

Posted by DeshRaj on 18/03/2010

Just a day after introducing you to Self-sufficient Streetlights designed by Natalia Romanova, now, we wish to make your interiors livelier than they were ever before with LED Pegs conceived by the same designer. Dubbed as light PEG, the wireless...

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Scientists create hydrogen fuel from sound waves

Posted by DeshRaj on 18/03/2010

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have succeeded in producing hydrogen from zinc oxide crystals and water. They immersed zinc oxide crystals in water and could harvest hydrogen from vibrations caused by passing traffic and waves. This.

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Post-Consumer Film Recycling Hit Record High in 2008

Posted by Environmental Leader on 17/03/2010

Plastic bag and film recycling in the U.S. reached a record high in 2008, recovering about 832,394,000 pounds of post-consumer film, according to a new study from the American Chemistry Council.The report, “National Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Bags and Film Report” (PDF), conducted ...

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Industrial Companies Tap into Waste Heat to Generate Electricity

Posted by Environmental Leader on 17/03/2010

Manufacturers now have a way to tap into waste heat and turn it into energy. A new joint venture in the Midwest will show how industrial companies can use the Green Machine, developed by ElectraTherm, to capture waste heat produced in their industrial processes and turn it into electricity, reduc ...

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Piksol creates arbitrary patterns on buildings' facades, collects solar energy too

Posted by DeshRaj on 17/03/2010

Sun-facing building facades will sure go more stylish with "Piksol" a solar cell pixel that makes creating arbitrary patterns and images perfectly possible. Drzach Suchy suggest to combine several Piksols in a preferential arrangement to...

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