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Company engineers estimate that a Solarwindowt installation on a fifty (50) story commercial building located in Florida could generate enough electricity to power at least 100 homes
and tall tower installations are currently being calculated by engineers for public review using today validated Solarwindowt performance results.
and overall environmental benefits all important considerations for our potential customers and future commercial partners in the commercial buildings sector.
Company engineers envision installing Solarwindowt on the vast areas of tinted glass surfaces on commercial buildings.
In contrast, conventional solar power systems are limited to very small rooftop areas on skyscrapers and tall towers,
which are crowded already with service systems such as HVAC services and elevators; tenant-amenities such as rooftop gardens and pools;
and other high-footprint features. ee worked hard to achieve both large-scale and high power conversion efficiency,
NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and development Agreement to advance the Company Solarwindowt technology for generating electricity on glass windows.
experimental lab device to a first-of-its-kind, see-through glass window capable of generating electricity.
Solarwindowt is currently under development for eventual commercial deployment in the estimated 80 million detached homes in America and more than five million commercial buildings.
The federal government estimates that by catalyzing private sector investments in commercial and industrial building energy upgrades,
may make America buildings 20 percent more efficient over the next decade, reducing energy costs for American businesses by nearly $40 billion.
Unlike conventional systems, Solarwindow#can be applied to all four sides of tall towers, generating electricity using natural
The Bi-fuel Impala is built factory so its CNG fuel system is validated by GM and covered by GM three-year/36000-mile (whichever comes first) new vehicle limited bumper-to-bumper warranty
The Bi-fuel Impala is the only bifuel-capable sedan on the market to offer a factory warranty.
They accomplished this by building in a tiny chip-scale commercially available battery into the device.
The innovation is a key enabler for smart cities, environmental and pollution monitoring, and effective disaster management, among many other applications.
a project partner based in Spain. n the context of smart cities, for example, sensing technologies will allow the introduction of new services for citizens that will benefit quality of life, such as traffic and pollution monitoring,
Kelvin Hall, founder and managing director of Enviro-Cool Ltd (UK), who owns the patents, says:
powered by a solar cell located on the flat top of the container. A fibre-optic grid monitors any deformations in the bag (signs of tearing
Professor George Lomonossoff of the John Innes Centre in the UK, the new technique turns the host plants into'mini-factories,
MEDISCO is also proving its worth in tests at a dairy factory in Marrakech, Morocco.
This has been repurposed for mosquito control using the netting coated with insecticide at one end of tubes that are placed in the walls of the households.
The tubes are to be inserted into the walls under a building roof, its eaves, so they are called'eave tubes'.
'Hungry malaria mosquitoes looking to feed on blood tend to enter such openings, naturally following the scent of humans
They better prevent mosquitoes from entering a house. For indoor spraying to work, mosquitoes must first enter a house
and land on a wall covered with insecticide, leaving them time to infect a person. ith these tubes,
insecticide is applied only to a small area the netting, he explains. his means a major reduction in insecticide use, by about 95,
In November 2013, MCD outfitted 20 houses with eave tubes in Igombati, a small Tanzanian village.
Recently the team has started to modify another 1 100 houses with eave tubes as part of a larger test.
The researchers have developed also an alternative to the eave tubes the'eave brick, 'where the plastic with the insecticide-coated netting replaces a brick removed from a wall.
The team calculates a typical household would spend about#1 per person per year over three years for the'eave tubes or bricks'.
'ee close to becoming competitive with bednets, especially when taking into consideration that eave tubes protect everyone in the house and not just those sleeping under a net,
Knols adds. Smart patches Moreover, MCD has developed also the mart patchfor bednets. The team research found that a mosquito first point of contact on a bednet is usually just above the head and torso of a sleeping person.
and bricks on up to 7 000 houses one that would yield solid scientific evidence that these tools can be deployed broadly to reduce the burden of malaria.
#Researchers create guilt-free superfood that tastes like bacon As will be familiar to anyone miserably chewing through leaf after leaf of kale in a beleaguered attempt to shed a few pounds,
when we broadcast signals from giant radio towers, cook in microwave ovens, or use an electric toothbrush that recharges wirelessly in a special cradle next to the bathroom sink.
Before Poon discovery, there was a clear divide between the two main types of electromagnetic waves in everyday use,
like those broadcast from radio towers, can travel over long distances. But when they encounter biological tissue,
to make clay soils drain faster and sandy soils drain slower. As more gardeners and farmers add ground charcoal
In the new study biogeochemists at Rice conducted side-by-side tests of the water-holding ability of three soil types#sand clay and topsoil#both with and without added biochar.
When biochar is added to clay it makes the soil less dense and it increases hydraulic conductivity
The fibers serve as a pathway to allow electrons to travel to the electrodes on the sides of the solar cell. t s like you re generating a street
and somebody that s traveling along the street can find a way to go from this end to anotheryu explains.
and radio waves can t always penetrate such as inside walls or bridges and below ground where there might be at least small temperature fluctuations.
For instance the device could be placed in an attic or inside a wall and sensors would be tuned to check for water leaks.
Similarly when used inside a bridge the sensors could detect any cracks forming or structural deficiencies.
In both cases the sensors would send a signal to the nearby powered receiver. A temperature change of only 0. 25 degrees Celsius creates enough energy to power the sensor node to read
That goal is achievable based on my most recent resultshe researchers also plan to develop a water splitter than runs on electricity produced by solar energy. ydrogen is an ideal fuel for powering vehicles buildings
#Clear material on windows harvests solar energy Michigan State university rightoriginal Studyposted by Tom Oswald-Michigan State on August 20 2014a new type of ransparent solar concentrator
can be used on windows or mobile devices to harvest solar energy without obscuring the view. Past efforts to create similar materials have been disappointing with inefficient energy production
The technology is featured in the journal Advanced Optical Materials. t opens a lot of area to deploy solar energy in a nonintrusive waylunt says. t can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.
It doesn t have to be transported to a collection station to do the separationhe says. his will be especially effective offshore where the footprint of traditional methods that involve scrubbing towers
But NEIL also makes associations between these things to obtain common sense information that people just seem to know without ever saying##that cars often are found on roads that buildings tend to be vertical
While growers can use the sensors to monitor water in soils for their crops civil engineers can embed the chips in concrete to determine optimal moisture levels as the concrete cures. ne of our goals is to try
and produce electricity that is captured by the battery s positive electrode. e call it fishing for electronssays Craig Criddle a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford university.
By 1939, a otolactormilking parlor was showcased at the Borden pavilion at the New york World Fair,
and the ability to fabricate space system components on-orbit instead of building them on the ground,
and they re doing it in your own backyard. The Motley Fool s free report##3 American Companies Set to Dominate the World##shows you how to profit.#
and many are beginning to think in terms of houses that generate their own water supply, self-irrigating crops,
the ater Gardensare groupings of water-extracting towers for high volume and high quality water. Some of the planned uses are for forests, camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock,
and onto our streets. And most of our current bottles don degrade. A high percentage of the products we buy in grocery stores contain water.
To me, the handwriting is on the wall. Today steel pipes will soon be replaced with tomorrow air pipes,
#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.
or within existing buildings in a self-contained and sustainable manner without competing for resources. Such urban plots can be at ground level or on rooftops.
They can use greenhouses in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.
It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:
#Toshiba s new vegetable factory to bring perfect produce to Japan When you hear the name Toshiba,
by introducing 100 percent pesticide free vegetable factories in Japan. The first Toshiba vegetable factory will open in a few months in Yokusuka, Japan.
But this isn just a greenhouse: Toshiba plant factory will be a high-tech facility. Itl include optimized lights set to a wavelength to grow perfect plants
and specialized air-conditioning that keeps temperature and humidity set to a constant level. Managers can remotely monitor the factory from another location
and keep an eye on plant growth, with the ability to change settings as needed. The factory itself will be completely sterile,
creating a super-clean facility with plants that won need pesticides. Because of the clean environment, all plants will be germfree,
If successful, Toshiba may build a larger plant outside of Japan and sell its plant factory technology to other cities worldwide.
Can be used for monitoring vibrations and material conditions in buildings, bridges, factories, farms and other infrastructure.
Building on existing geolocation technologies, future swath control could save on seed, minerals, fertilizer and herbicides by reducing overlapping inputs.
Using techniques similar to glass houses, vertical farms could augment natural light using energy-efficient lighting. The advantages are numerous,
if your house produced more energy than it consumed? Does that mean negative utility bills?
Japanese companies are fascinated with net-zero energy buildings, usually incorporating transportation as part of the mix.
Panasonic Eco Ideas House, with solar, a fuel cell, battery backup and a plug-in Toyota prius, has stood long next to a company headquarters in Tokyo,
The house (incorporating elements of Honda's Smart home System, below) is furnished fully, and a UC-Davis employee is going to live in it for at least three years.
The company broke ground on the house last year, declaring it to be a"showplace for environmental innovation."
"Honda Smart home The house design is pleasant enough, but you won see its green features just by looking at it.
The solar will generate more than enough energy to heat the house, supply the appliances, and power a Honda Fit electric car.
The Home energy management System (HEMS) optimizes the house microgrid, so that the Fit can charge during the low-demand nighttime,
For instance, amber hallway lights are bright enough for occupants to navigate the corridor, but not disruptive of the human eye production of rhodopsin (which helps us see in darkness,
and return to sleep quickly after a bathroom break). Blue light during the day helps maintain alertness.
and cooling (the south-facing windows) and natural light and ventilation (the north-facing windows). The property is also five times more water-efficient than the normal house, with low-flow fixtures and short-run hot-water pipes.
Graywater was used for irrigation, natural ash replaced half the foundation cement (production of which produces five percent of global CO2 EMISSIONS),
and certified lumber was used throughout. Over a year, the house is expected to generate a 2. 6-megawatt-hour surplus (compared to the average home consumption of 13.3 megawatts.
California official plan calls for all new homes to be net zero by 2020, so Honda house is tomorrow dwelling today.
Here's a video overview of the Honda Smart House, and if you want to learn more,
explore this infographic which goes into more detail about how the house works e
#Watch Bill gates drink a big glass of filtered poop water Sedro-Woolley, a slightly Twin peaks-y logging outpost located about two hours north of Seattle in Skagit County,
just a few moments before, looked nothing like the clear liquid you expect to come out of your kitchen faucet."
and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the foundation ongoing mission to bring clean drinking water and safe means of sanitation to developing parts of the world.
the Gates Foundation launched the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge, a competition that yielded, among other things,
Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.
As Gates explains, that machine will be able to handle the waste of 100, 000 people and, from that, produce 86,000 liters of clean water on a daily basis while also generating a net 250 kilowatts of electricity.
the Gates Foundation will promote the building of self-powered Omniprocessor facilities in other parts of the world (Gates specifically mentions India) where clean drinking water
As Gates notes, poor sanitation claims the lives of upwards of 700,000 children in developing areas every year,
Gates envisions that each Omniprocessor will be built and operated using a micro-entrepreneurial model where local residents would benefit economically from the facilities. he processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water;
"Gates explains. We'll drink to that
#Graphene electrode promises stretchy circuits: Nature News A transparent, flexible electrode made from graphene could see a one-atom thick honeycomb of carbon first made just five years ago replace other high-tech materials used in displays.
and the Gates Foundation to apply the techniques to the eradication of polio. But if we could use this to move away from inactivated polio viruses in the vaccines,
where he can run analyses without having to set up the infrastructure in-house. The cost is about $100 per person.
Seven Bridges Genomics, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aims to be accessible to people with no expertise in bioinformatics,
which the operations would threaten deep-sea life such as sediment-dwelling sea cucumbers, worms and small crustaceans,
#Robotic Bricklayer Can Build A House in Two Days Yes, robots are taking over a worrisome number of jobs,
An Australian engineer has developed an industrial-sized bricklaying robot that can put down hundreds of bricks per hour, 24 hours a day, with superhuman precision.
after the Roman empire who assembled a massive defensive wall in northern England to keep out formidable Scottish highlanders.
Hadrian then cuts its own individual bricks and shuttles them along the articulated arm of a 28-meter-long telescopic boom.
An automated mechanism at the end of the crane arm then places the bricks individually, sealing each with mortar.
By automating the loading, cutting routing and placing and working around-the-clock Picav says Hadrian can complete a standard house structure within two days.
The Hadrian robot is all-electric, too, and designed to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Pivac new company, Fastbrick Robotics, recently posted an animated video of Hadrian in action n
Once inside the abdominal cavity which has been filled with inert gas to make room for it to work the robot can remove an ailing appendix, cut pieces from a diseased colon or repair a perforated gastric ulcer.
and help to conserve energy in cell towers. The primary culprit in smartphone battery drain is an inefficient power amplifier a component that is designed to push the radio signal out through the phones antennas.
an associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. e have a description that applies to many systems.
For example, an understanding of such relationships from an engineering standpoint may improve the animation of phenomena such as hair blowing in the wind. think what we now have is a bridge between these two fields,
#A new way to detect leaks in pipes Explosions caused by leaking gas pipes under city streets have made frequently headlines in recent years,
including one that leveled an apartment building in New york this spring. But while the problem of old and failing pipes has garnered much attention,
which houses computers for automation and control, and expandable 20,000-gallon treatment units. In these units, microbes called xoelectrogensexecute a unique process, electromethanogenesis which is being used for the first time ever in treating wastewater.
who was involved not in the research. f you take the normal conventional civil engineering or chemical engineering approach to treating it, it just won touch it.
The researchers took a page from the paper industry using one of its processes to make a flat mesh out of light-absorbing semiconductor nanowires that
"Our goal is to learn from the natural world and use its materials as building blocks for innovation."
"For Rozhkova, this particular building block is inspired by the function of an ancient protein known to turn light into energy.
#Ultra-thin high-speed detector captures unprecedented range of light waves New research at the University of Maryland could lead to a generation of light detectors that can see below the surface of bodies walls and other objects.
While graphene has attracted wide interest as a biosensor due to its two-dimensional nature that allows excellent electrostatic control of the transistor channel by the gate
Graphene has been used among other things to design FETSEVICES that regulate the flow of electrons through a channel via a vertical electric field directed into the channel by a terminal called a gate.
In the realm of biosensing the physical gate is removed and the current in the channel is modulated by the binding between embedded receptor molecules and the charged target biomolecules to
whose surface potential (or conductivity) can be modulated by the interaction (known as conjugation) between the receptor and target molecules that results in net accumulation of charges over the gate region.
ACS Nano pubs. acs. org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn500914 i
#Scientists craft atomically seamless thinnest-possible semiconductor junctions Scientists have developed what they believe is the thinnest-possible semiconductor,
The researchers discovered that two flat semiconductor materials can be connected edge-to-edge with crystalline perfection.
Monolayer materials experience strain on atomic scales demanding different investigative expertise than that of the average demolition crew.
"I'm interested in this concept of synthesizing new materials that are assembled from nanoscale building blocks, "Nam said."
#Urban vegetable garden system with LED lighting Keystone Technology LED vegetable garden system is a cultivation system for indoor plant factories that uses LED lighting instead of sunlight.
On the other hand plants that grow upwards can be planted with smaller intervals so a greater number of stalks can be cultivated. his plant factory itself has been here for over 20 years
and green lighting the produce displayed at a plant factory exhibition in July 2010 was our company first ever. ommercially available
since 2010 this system has been installed in various factories offices and eateries nationwide such as by a leading eating establishment that has installed 48 units in its processing factory in Kanagawa Prefecture.
As workers in Japan agricultural industry age it is becoming more difficult to obtain safe and delicious vegetables through traditional farming techniques.
#Tiny ant takes on pesticide industry Few people like antshey bite and overrun kitchen counters.
#Crystal breeding factory uncovered A breakthrough in understanding the way in which crystals develop will have a major impact for the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries.
Lancaster University chemists in collaboration with international colleagues have uncovered a'Crystal Nuclei Breeding Factory'which, they say,
"The breakthrough also sheds light on the longstanding question of how the distinct'handedness'of molecules of life might have arisen.
allowing for safe passage through the remainder of the gastrointestinal (GI TRACT. The material is also elastic,
the polymer gel dissolved, allowing for the safe passage of the small PCL pieces without obstruction.
This research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National institutes of health, and the Alexander Von humboldt Foundation.
and the California Institute of technology have developed innovative flat, optical lenses that are capable of manipulating light in ways that are difficult
#Tunnel Transistor May Meet Power Needs of Future Chips A new kind of transistor consumes 90 percent less power than conventional transistors,
which serve as the building blocks of most microchips. Transistors act like switches that flick on and off to represent data as zeroes and ones.
One way that scientists have sought to overcome this limit is with tunnel FETS (TFETS. These devices take advantage of the ability of electrons to penetrate barriers,
survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.
the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,
These widgets are actually the main reason Airware is sticking with Windows for its tablet app.
building on Windows will allow them to download the same app to each tablet but provide different interfaces by simply checking off
Plenty of companies need to inspect factories and pipelines monitor farm land, and survey big tracts of land.
and diverse honeycomb passages leading to a single microphone in the center of the disk.
Well each of the 46 passages to the microphone is unique and features subtly different ways of enabling sound to travel to the center,
but there is obviously plenty of room for optimizing that design for further applications. The Duke university scientists have said already it could be applied to hearing aids
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with internal video screens linked to external cameras instead of windows. And Lockheed martin has a commercial plane, the N+2,
a solid mineral found in eggshells, the shells of various marine organisms, calcium supplements and cement.
and architectural engineering at CU-Boulder and senior author of the new study, which was published recently in the journal Environmental science and Technology.
and bicarbonates that can be used as raw materials by the construction industry, used as a chemical buffer in the wastewater treatment cycle itself
It will be placed in nearby warehouse facilities, and Fopo will then sell the powder back to retailers with an extended shelf life. urrently studying Masters in Food Innovation and Product Design,
The pre-plastic-a low-quality plastic-is broken then down into building blocks for PLA. n other words,
we were able to convert lactic acid directly into the building blocks for PLA without making the larger by-products that do not fit into the zeolite pores. ur new method has compared several advantages to the traditional technique:
in the statement. orkers on manufacturing floors could direct robots to one side of the warehouse to collect items,
"If you had these little building blocks, you could build the tissue right at the surgery time to be whatever size that you require,
His large, portable tower would clean the air while simultaneously leaving behind tiny black carbon particles that could be recycled into jewelry.
the Smog Free Tower was cranking out the bits of carbon that would be compressed into tiny cubes.
Smog-busting Roof Tiles Could Clean Tons of Pollution Study Says Roosegaarde wants to take the tower to some of the most polluted cities in the world,
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rather than piping all that scorching-hot water through a radiator to dissipate the heat
The fabrication of multifunctional materials with tunable structure and properties requires programmed binding of their building blocks.
These filaments can be regenerated magnetically on mechanical damage, owing to the fluidity of the capillary bridges between nanoparticles and their reversible binding on contact.
and creates capillary bridges between them so that the particles stick together on contact, "said Orlin Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the corresponding author of the paper."
and makes the bridges fragile, leading to breaking and fragmentation of the nanoparticle chains. Yet the broken nanoparticles chains will reform
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