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Scientist can recharge batteries using spider’s web

Scientist can recharge batteries using spider’s web

Greetings, Scientist can recharge batteries using spider’s web…

Motorbike that runs on WATER: 1 liter to travel 500km

Motorbike that runs on WATER: 1 liter to travel 500km

Greetings, Motorbike that runs on WATER: 1 liter to travel 500km…

China Starts Building Huge Solar Plant to Span 10 Sq. Miles of Gobi Desert

Greetings, China Starts Building Huge Solar Plant to Span 10 Sq. Miles of Gobi Desert China has begun construction on its largest solar power plant which, when completed, will be…

Light-Capturing Nanomaterials to Boost Efficiency of Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Light-Capturing Nanomaterials to Boost Efficiency of Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Greetings, Light-Capturing Nanomaterials to Boost Efficiency of Photovoltaic Solar Cells Rice researchers selectively filtered high-energy hot electrons from their less-energetic counterparts using a Schottky barrier (left) created with a gold…

Graphene Helps Turn Engine Heat Into Electricity to Boost Gas Mileage

Graphene Helps Turn Engine Heat Into Electricity to Boost Gas Mileage

Greetings,   Graphene Helps Turn Engine Heat Into Electricity to Boost Gas Mileage Turning Engine Heat Into Electricity to Boost Gas Mileage Using strontium titanium dioxide and graphene, scientists have…

Distributed Electric Propulsion May Usher in a New Era of Flight

Distributed Electric Propulsion May Usher in a New Era of Flight

Greetings, Distributed Electric Propulsion May Usher in a New Era of Flight Electric Propulsion and Digital Control May Usher in a New Era of Flight NASA and its commercial partners…

Russian researcher invents new cheap solar battery… gets 3yr suspended sentence

Greetings,   Russian researcher invents new cheap solar battery… gets 3yr suspended sentence…

10 Essential Oils That Melt Away Stress

10 Essential Oils That Melt Away Stress

Greetings, 10 Essential Oils That Melt Away Stress You may have heard it said that anything in moderation is OK but too much of most things can cause harm. Stress…

SCO threatens US-European monopoly on power: Economist

SCO threatens US-European monopoly on power: Economist

Greetings, SCO threatens US-European monopoly on power: Economist The expanding Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) alliance will create a new sphere of influence for Russia and China. The expanding Shanghai Cooperation…

Masai Women Are Leading a Solar Revolution With Help From Their Donkeys

Masai Women Are Leading a Solar Revolution With Help From Their Donkeys

Greetings, Masai Women Are Leading a Solar Revolution With Help From Their Donkeys Masai Women Are Leading a Solar Revolution With Help From Their Donkeys Just two years ago, the…

US Coast Guard chief: We are ‘not even in the same league as Russia’ in the Arctic

US Coast Guard chief: We are ‘not even in the same league as Russia’ in the Arctic

Greetings, US Coast Guard chief: We are ‘not even in the same league as Russia’ in the Arctic (REUTERS/ITAR-TASS) Russian President Vladimir Putin and defense minister Sergey Ivanov visiting military…

The eco-friendly batmobile: BMW reveals hydrogen ‘stealth’ prototype can go 300 miles on a tank (and refill in five minutes)

The eco-friendly batmobile: BMW reveals hydrogen ‘stealth’ prototype can go 300 miles on a tank (and refill in five minutes)

Greetings, The eco-friendly batmobile: BMW reveals hydrogen ‘stealth’ prototype can go 300 miles on a tank (and refill in five minutes) Hydrogen concept car developed with Toyota Central cylindrical tank…

African News: Winds of change as Ethiopia harnesses green power

Greetings, Winds of change as Ethiopia harnesses green power Adama (Ethiopia) (AFP) – The wind blows hard over Adama, a range of rocky hills in Ethiopia’s highlands that provide the…

5 Self-Reliant Skills Every Child Should Learn This Summer

5 Self-Reliant Skills Every Child Should Learn This Summer

Greetings, 5 Self-Reliant Skills Every Child Should Learn This Summer In our modern world, parenting is too often done in between rigidly scheduled activities and when children can be pried…

Engineers Develop a Computer That Operates on Water

Engineers Develop a Computer That Operates on Water

Greetings, Engineers Develop a Computer That Operates on Water Researchers at Stanford University have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets. Their goal…

Off The Grid Protection Of Electronics( From Solar Flares & EMP Attacks): The Quick Way To Build A Budget Faraday Cage For Less Than $10

Off The Grid Protection Of Electronics( From Solar Flares & EMP Attacks): The Quick Way To Build A Budget Faraday Cage For Less Than $10

Greetings, The Quick Way To Build A Budget Faraday Cage For Less Than $10 Written by: Kevin Danielsen Extreme Survival  Image source: yankeecontainers.dom I’m going to level with you in…

Trees are source for high-capacity, soft batteries

Trees are source for high-capacity, soft batteries

Greetings, Trees are source for high-capacity, soft batteries A closeup of the soft battery, created with wood pulp nanocellulose. Credit: Courtesy of Max Hamedi and Wallenberg Wood Science Center A…

MIT Energy Initiative Report Highlights the Future of Solar Energy

MIT Energy Initiative Report Highlights the Future of Solar Energy

Greetings, MIT Energy Initiative Report Highlights the Future of Solar Energy A new report by the MIT Energy Initiative assesses solar energy’s current and potential competitive position and identifies changes…

Off The Grid: Got Chocolate? A Can? You Got Fire!

Off The Grid: Got Chocolate? A Can? You Got Fire!

Greetings, Got Chocolate? A Can? You Got Fire! By Heather Callaghan Do you have some chocolate? An aluminum can? Cloth? Tinder and wood? Throw in some sunlight and you got…

Off The Grid: How to Make Your Own Alkaline Water

Off The Grid: How to Make Your Own Alkaline Water

Greetings,   How to Make Your Own Alkaline Water By Michelle Toole, Healthy Holistic Living Water is slowly becoming the most precious resource in our world. There’s no way around…

China to help Kenya go green…China, Kenya launch solar technology transfer center

China to help Kenya go green…China, Kenya launch solar technology transfer center

Greetings, China, Kenya launch solar technology transfer center (Xinhua) — Chinese and Kenyan investors on Friday launched a technology transfer and training center to promote assembling of solar lighting systems…

Cow Manure: A Breaking New Natural Gas Resource

Cow Manure: A Breaking New Natural Gas Resource

Greetings, Cow Manure: A Breaking New Natural Gas Resource An Indiana dairy farmer’s earth-friendly fuel solution offers another great alternative for homesteading families and off the grid preppers. Mike McCloskey…

New Wireless Sensor Detects Hazardous Chemicals or Food Spoilage

Greetings, New Wireless Sensor Detects Hazardous Chemicals or Food Spoilage The MIT researchers’ wireless chemical sensor. Researchers from MIT have developed a new wireless sensor that can transmit information on…

9 Ways To Take Your Self-Sufficiency To The Next Level

9 Ways To Take Your Self-Sufficiency To The Next Level

Greetings, 9 Ways To Take Your Self-Sufficiency To The Next Level Perhaps you’ve been researching the lifestyle of self-sufficiency for a while. You’ve started growing a garden, have a small…

Researchers Develop a Better Method for Making Perovskite Solar Cells

Researchers Develop a Better Method for Making Perovskite Solar Cells

Greetings, Researchers Develop a Better Method for Making Perovskite Solar Cells Perovskite solar cells could be a cheap, efficient alternative to silicon-based solar cells. A new technique can potentially mass-produce…

New “Tandem” Solar Cell to Harnesses More Sunlight

New “Tandem” Solar Cell to Harnesses More Sunlight

Greetings, New “Tandem” Solar Cell to Harnesses More Sunlight Test sample of a monolithic perovskite-silicon multijunction solar cell produced by the MIT-Stanford University team. By combining two types of photovoltaic…

Chinese scientists mull power station in space

Chinese scientists mull power station in space

Greetings, Chinese scientists mull power station in space Electricity generated from the ground-based solar plants fluctuates with night and day and the weather, while a space-based generator can collect energy…

The first viable product made with ‘wonder material’ graphene is about to hit stores

Greetings, The first viable product made with ‘wonder material’ graphene is about to hit stores Business Insider By Kelly Dickerson (University of Manchester)Graphene co-discoverer Sir Kostya Novoselov (left) and British…

China to help Ghana construct $1billion Solar plant

China to help Ghana construct $1billion Solar plant

Greetings, China to help Ghana construct $1bln plant The Chinese Hanergy Group is investing $1 billion to construct a 400-megawatt (MW) solar power plant to help boost Ghana’s energy needs,…

America Needs To Take Note: Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Completely on Renewable Energy US

America Needs To Take Note: Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Completely on Renewable Energy US

Greetings, Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Completely on Renewable Energy US Costa Rica obtained 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources for 75 days straight this year. It marks…