LED Lights are Here
They have a 50,000+ hours lifetime, which compares to about 15,000 hours for compact fluorescent (CFLs) and 2,500 hours for incandescent bulbs. The bigger OPAL is listed at $55.12 and the TOPAZ is $41.13. They come with a 3 year warranty, not something you’ll find on any fluorescent!
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Save Our Earth, Let’s Go Green
Photography with electron microscope. Fibers 1/500 as big as a human hair, cradle a planet-like ball.
Serpents in Paradise- Freeways with Solar Panels
In the eyes of Swedish architect and urban strategist Mans Tham, the stretch of I-10 known as the Santa Monica Freeway is an achievement to be celebrated, revered and covered in so many solar panels that it looks like a massive snake.
Apple City
Sustainable Apple campus in Cupertino, to incorporate renewable energy sources. 100 acres of land picked up from HP for $300 million. British architect Norman Foster is to design the company’s new campus.
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Volvo’s Air Motion Concept Car Runs on Air Power (video)
Volvo wanted to design a car that was minimalist in both construction and environmental impact, this is the reason Air Motion concept runs on compressed air.
Solar Collectors covering 0.3 percent of Sahara could power all of Europe
The Desertec Foundation, a Jordanian and German company are they have a radically ambitious project to harness solar energy in the world’s most barren, sun-drenched expanse, the Sahara Desert. Desertec claims that if only 0.3 percent of the expanse of the Sahara was covered with solar panels, it would power the entire European continent.
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China plans by 2020 to get 500GW of renewable electric power
China has just published an astoundingly ambitious and exciting renewable energy plan for the next ten years, to get a total of 500 Gigawatts of renewable energy on the grid by 2020.
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Wind Cubes concept
A concept from industrial designers Liao-Hsun Chen and Wen-Chih Chang, a wind energy generating system, the “Wind Cube”, which can somehow generate enough energy to take your home off the grid.
