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#Can a city really ban cars from its streets? The German city of Hamburg has announced plans to become car-free within the next two decades.
or part of the building it is parked near? The hope is that AR systems will become robust enough that explicit instructions are needed no longer.
"We can see craters consistent with aerial bombardment#we can identify different types of buildings that have been destroyed#schools,
On one call to Ethiopia's former Minister of Capacity Building, I received a preprogrammed error message."
Powell shows me a video of what looks like some children building blocks being pushed together. It is actually a very close up X-ray of the tip of a fuel injector, taken through the injector's steel body.
he found that students fell into two camps. Those participants who had expressed previously a preference for learning visually with an emphasis on text
or information on a passage to safety. Nearly three quarters of humans on this planet are tethered practically to their mobile phones.
and ell broadcasttechnology to send emergency alerts to phones in areas at risk of flooding or industrial accidents.
Down the centre of each of these parks run wide bus boulevards, protected cycling lanes and excellent walking paths.
Choosing walking can help designers build more inviting streets, and allow cities to prioritise their people over cars.
The site recently started featuring apartment rentals with Walk Scores prominently displayed#a different way to place value on
but buckled pavements or poor street lighting might make the walk less than pleasant#meaning you may be less likely to do it again.
A site called#Walkonomics#takes into consideration eight additional factors ranging from safety to beauty when ranking walkability.
streets are ranked green, yellow and red based on how good they are for walking. But only a human can stand on a street
and get a feeling for how it feels to walk there and what could be improved,
#which serve the needs of Asian cultures#accounting for street markets and vendors, auto rickshaws and motorcycles#rather than one-size-fits-all Western street design.
Perhaps the biggest deterrent for walkers is the perception that it's unsafe which can mean anything from the poor street lighting to badly marked crosswalks to high crime.
But walking is the only option for a large percentage of the world's population that cannot afford a car,
ramps instead of stairs, larger type on signage, benches on more corners. In Thailand, the Chaing Mai province is investing in retirement communities,
There has been perhaps no better advertisement for walking than the open-street festivals modelled after the ciclovías, common in Colombian cities.
On Sundays, Bogota and Medellin#close up to 80 miles (130km) of streets to cars. Cities have seen the value of turning tarmac over to walkers and bikers,
and has grown to become the largest open-street event in the US with over 100,000 people in the streets per event.
Now, one of the city's main thoroughfares, Broadway, is being converted into a pedestrian-friendly street.#
Wework is innovating on the city's thriving real estate industry, building communities around New york's high-rise buildings.
In the case of freighters, this means no crew#so there is an extra weight saving by getting rid of the life support systems and the windows.
Their paddy fields have given rise to India's latest technology hub#tall glass buildings dot the skyline,
and farmers settle down to their traditional clay hookahs. There's very little left of their ancestral village.
Within it are several tent-like structures#clean rooms within the clean room. On tables inside these, sit some of the 18 individual hexagonal mirrors that make up the massive 21ft (6. 5m) diameter primary mirror of this new space telescope."
as we peer through a window into one of the super-clean clean rooms.""Each of these is made of solid beryllium
#Being the one in his family who had to clean the many windows in their four-storey home inspired him to design a window cleaning robot called the Hobot.
Boot camp for start-up success Rothschild Boulevard has always been one of the grandest streets in Tel aviv, with its broad tree-lined central promenade and elegant Bauhaus architecture.
The cafes, kiosks and benches teem with young entrepreneurs who seem to survive on a diet of caffeine and wi-fi. Of Israel's 5, 000 tech companies,
Just off the southern end of the boulevard is the Shalom Meir Tower#once the tallest building in the middle East.
A lift door in the corner of the mezzanine leads to a municipal library on the seventh floor that had been forgotten by all but its ageing clientele.
Youthful exuberanceacross the boulevard, Yaron Tal is Chief Technical Officer of 6scan, a website security start-up he#founded with ex-army buddies.
Recruiting to 6scan became easy after they opened an office on the boulevard according to Tal."
"The street is full of start-ups. We talk together, help each other. There are no big companies here,
whose four huge towers resemble some kind of factory rather than a scientific facility. It is the VLT
whose walls are one atom thick and made from pure carbon, are need highly robust very little heat input to warm them up,
if they can produce hifi-quality sound in your living room. That's what Barnard and colleagues have sought to assess.
which is basically the same stuff as the walls of carbon nanotubes but flattened into sheets.
My favourite remains Harry Harrison's 1966 Make Room! Make Room! set in 1999 in a horribly overpopulated
and underfed New york. Only the ultra-rich have access to meat or other fresh produce.
meaning alley or avenue in German, is part of many street names in the city), which to some observers evokes the atmosphere of the early days in Northern California.
a gathering held earlier this month in a ramshackle complex of wooden and stone buildings in Kreuzberg, a trendy part of the city.
Renting a 120 square metre apartment in Berlin costs around a third what it does in London
such as the social game developer Wooga or Research Gate, a networking website for scientists. The darling of the scene is Soundcloud
In Prenzlauer Berg, Factory, which received##1 million in funding from Google, has rented space to over 15 companies,
How the DIY tech force has become strong DIY technology has taken traditionally place in a bedroom, garage or on a kitchen table.
demand for PCS is going through the roof, he says. Believe it or not, the actual hardware lifespan of a PC is around fifteen years
nutrients and other molecules seep through the walls and pass between the two. What the blood doesn't need is passed off to the urine forming in the tubes,
#Unmasking organised crime networks with data Military software engineers have developed a program that can predict the social structures of street gangs.
In fact, violent street gangs seem to be set up along similar lines to insurgent groups that stage armed resistance to political authority,
A team at the West point Military academy in the US state of New york has released just details of a software package it has developed to aid intelligence gathering by police dealing with street gangs.
For example, information spreading happens quite differently on a grid (like the street network of Manhattan,
which aim to have fewer cars and more people on the streets. There is a problem, according to Daniel Kim, Founder and CEO of Lit Motors:"
you could fit twice as many cars onto the streets, and into parking spaces.""We want to put less car on the road,
Our buildings are designed for dryness and therefore deteriorate in the presence of water. Modern architecture is designed also to just house people
not other life forms, and therefore does not inherently promote biodiversity. We therefore need to think about architecture very differently.
We must search for new models for constructing buildings, as well as searching for improvements to our current industrial processes.
For example, Paris Habitat, the capitalslargest owner of social housing is using body heat from the Paris Metro to heat buildings.
Bioprocesses are powering buildings such as the BIQ house with a bio reactive facade which was built as part of this year International Building Exhibition (IBA) in Hamburg.
And WSP plans for seasonal ponds to deal with water storage in Jaypee City in India begin to deal with the changes that happen as the seasons change.
Cities are being imagined that challenge the permanence of building materials and their inertness, and we are likely to see a change in our experience of cities thanks to augmented realities a new way of seeing via our smart phones and Google glasses.
These promising possibilities could lead to new building materials, especially by using emerging biotechnologies, and might encourage diversity in the kinds of architectures we produce.
He proposes new building materials that could allow new opportunities through their fluid structure, and says architecture
For instance, there the Paik Nam June Media Bridge a proposed river crossing in the South korean capital Seoul.
This bold design will be much more than a bridge; included in its vast form will be a park,
Such concepts allow us to see bridges in new ways not just as a method of crossing natural barriers,
Rather than constructing buildings from inert materials transported across the world, people are exploring technologies that could transform one group of substances into another on a building site.
Other transformative processes include Ginger Krieg Dosier printed sandstone bricks of bio-manufactured masonry grown using bacteria.
And it not just buildings On earth that we need to be thinking about. Phil Watson, Dr Rachel Armstrong and Elizabeth Anne Williams are working on initial drawings and concepts for Project Persephone,
could help buildings better withstand wet conditions. Using new design models, technologies and materials, it may be possible to escape the bonds of industrial manufacturing processes as the driving force for human development.
The team most important discovery sheds light on what causes the TRN-thalamus-cortex circuit to perform abnormally.
and other substances on artery walls which can restrict blood flow) researchers have identified for the first time distinct gene pathways that are altered by these different stimuli.
And Connell looking at some more reports right now it looks like at this point there were earlier reports that people were trapped in the attic of their home because of the rising waters.
which designed the program for in-house use, likes it so much theye made it available as a free download under a Creative Commons license.
An on-site Olympic-sized swimming pool and on-site dental services are two of the perks Oklahoma city gas producer Chesapeake Energy offers its employees.
Contact us today to find out more about how the chemical industry of the future will use technology as the cornerstone of global growth o
which means being an increasingly effective communicator who can bring a personal touch to an impersonal arena.
create housings for the company revolutionary gallium nitride transmitters, and fabricate fins for guided artillery shells.
particularly microwave components the building blocks of sophisticated radars. The current method of building microscopic circuits involves removing material to create a circuit pathway.
In contrast, 3-D printing lays down just the material needed to build the electronic pathway. he word rintingimplies lower cost
We make the structures, the housings, the circuit cards, with the right materials, and then we integrate them into a system,
In the operation, five PKK camps were attacked: Zap, Basyan, Gare, Avashin and Metina in Northern Iraq.
shelters and antiaircraft batteries were targeted in the five camps. PKK headquarters located on Qandil Mountains in Northern Iraq were targeted reportedly in the attacks as well.
and water heaters sprouting from government buildings hospitals police stations bus shelters as well as thousands of gaily colored private homes throughout the Caribbean island.
and commercial buildings that would financially benefit from solar on their roofs. With thousands of incoming pledges for the#Putsolaronit campaign, Mosaic built a platform that would help people achieve their commitments.
The funds raised are designed to bridge the gap for community buildings whose solar installations may need a few thousand dollars to be financeable by conventional means.
Schools, places of worship and other community groups can fundraise to put solar on their buildings by asking their community members to support their Place page
Billy Parish. t based on our belief that every building can go solar if the community is behind it.
Musk said the patents that covered a wall at Tesla Palo alto headquarters have been removed. e believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars,
factories and vehicles to clean or crubthe exhaust from high-sulfur fuel. For the first time this combination is being developed to accommodate restricted spaces on existing ships.
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
colored tints preferred by commercial window manufacturers for installation on skyscrapers, worldwide.##Among the most important criteria for developing Solarwindow#applications for today#s skyscrapers is providing a set of neutral colors that remain see-through
Today, we#'ve revealed a record-breaking, largest-area see-through, organic photovoltaic (OPV) Solarwindow#array that addresses tall-tower and commercial building glass requirements,
NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and development Agreement to advance the Company#s Solarwindow#technology for generating electricity on glass windows.
commercial scale windows while maintaining uniform, neutral colors and scalable power.##Architecturally neutral colors and scalable power are important to achieving the Company#s near-term commercial objective,
its development of electricity-generating windows for skyscrapers. Engineers envision replacing today#s passive glass windows with New Energy#s electricity-generating Solarwindow#systems on all four sides of tall towers.
Such installations could contribute to the goal of self-powered skyscrapers. The prospect of applying Solarwindow#to all four sides of a building provides a significant advantage over conventional photovoltaic solar-power systems.
Unlike traditional building-applied photovoltaic (PV) systems, restricted to use in direct sunlight on very limited skyscraper rooftop space,
and shaded conditions on the many thousands of square feet of glass surfaces common to today#s high-rise towers#a game-changing advantage.
enhancing the performance of today#s insulated commercial windows;**See-through, with high level of#visible light transmission#;*
inorganic PV technologies for window applications,#explained Dr. Hammond.##The unparalleled aesthetics of our Solarwindow#prototypes are the result of numerous novel techniques and processes we#ve developed,
glass window capable of generating electricity. Today, the technology is the subject of forty-two (42) patent filings,
Solarwindow#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 the U s. can save $40 billion annually by reducing energy use in commercial buildings by 20 percent by 2020.
Unlike conventional systems, Solarwindow#can be applied to all four sides of tall towers, generating electricity using natural
These pathways would enable the pods to travel from Milton Keynes railway station into the city centre;
Construction of a biofuels refinery and other facilities are expected to create 800 construction jobs and 400 permanent jobs in Rep. Juan Vargasdistrict east of San diego. his is more evidence that the advanced biofuel industry is scaling up
*In New jersey, Trinity Solar LLC installed solar panels at housing units at Joint Military Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County,
E2 is a national community of individual business leaders who advocate for good environmental policy while building economic prosperity l
GE says the 2. 85-103 comes with enhanced tower engineered for Japanese environmental conditions including seismic and extreme wind events as required by Japanese construction and building codes.
and complies with the Japan Electric Utility Law and Japanese construction and building codes. Japan installed wind power capacity inched up steadily during the 0s with 200 to 300 megawatts going in each year.
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.
It is said to require no charger installation meaning you simply just plug it directly into a wall outlet.
which plugs directly into the wall outlet. On the other end of the cord is the coupler that plugs into the car.
Benefits of commuting on electricity Though electric buses are not newhe first was introduced in Berlin in 1882lder models frequently required wires to hang over each bus route, marking bus paths through city streets.
I remember hearing loud pops as sparks flew from an intersection of overhead electric bus wires near my bedroom.
Developing additional policy levers on the state and federal level can help take battery electric and fuel cell buses beyond pilot programs and onto city streets near you.
Energy efficiency For Millions Of Apartments Theye calling President Obama approach to governance these days mall balland they might be right
to make apartments more energy efficient. Ecoflats is focused a green apartment building in Portland Ore. image Earthtechling) According to the EPA around a third of Americans live in apartments in multifamily buildings
and their energy bills add up to $22 billion a year. This is a sector that doesn get a lot of attention
when it comes to improving efficiency often there little incentive for building owners to make such investments.
and the agency pointed to three ways apartment energy efficiency gains might be made: The EPA said it already been working with Fannie mae
and the U s. Department of housing and urban development on similar efforts and his latest agreement with Freddie mac is another critical step forward in meeting the President goalof making multifamily buildings 20 percent more energy efficient by 2020 n
and elsewhere to finance the construction of bridges, roads, transit, and other public facilities. Current state of clean energy financing programs Connecticut The New york Green Bank will join the Connecticut Clean energy Finance and Investment Authority,
or PACE, program for commercial and multifamily buildings, and a competitive grant program for micro grids.
including water quality projects, energy-efficiency upgrades for state buildings, river revitalization, and habitat restoration projects. In June 2013, the state sold $100 million worth of green bonds as part of a larger bond sale, attracting some new investors specifically because of the green label.
By serving as a warehouse for energy-efficiency and renewable energy loansnd by providing a clear point of entry into the market for customers
including affordable housing, community economic development, technology research and development, and infrastructure investment. Through green banks, these strategies can be employed to meet the specific challenges of clean energy deployment and market transformation.
They accomplished this by building in a tiny chip-scale commercially available battery into the device.
#A Record-breaking Solar-Covered bridge In London Theye calling it the orld largest solar powered bridgeand who to argue?
The bridge is part of the London Blackfriars station that opened in 2012 in time for the Olympics making way for more
They served up nearly 80000 cups of tea an amount that could be made from the bridge average daily power output.
Blackfriars Bridge London (image via Network Rail) The panels on the bridge which connects north and south London in the center of the city cover some 6000 square meters Network Rail said about 1. 5 acres.
and the 900000 kilowatt-hours of annual generation forecast for the bridge means that the array of Sanyo panels will deliver a modest 9. 3 percent capacity factor.
Carcharging has strategic partnerships across multiple business sectors including multifamily residential and commercial properties, parking garages, shopping malls, retail parking,
#Zero Net Energy Building Movement Is Taking Off Zero net energy, once a wild-eyed, seemingly unattainable vision, isn exactly mainstream,
A new report says the number of buildings either at or reaching for the standard has doubled more than in the past two years.
Zero net energy buildings are defined as those that generate as much power from onsite energy sources as they consume,
and on that count there are now 32 buildings and one istrict (a group of buildings) that meet the ZNE mark, according to the New Buildings Institute PDF.
as it had in 2012 the NBI also counted up zero net energy buildings that hadn yet put in the full year of performance required,
as well as buildings that were efficient enough to meet the ZNE standard but didn have the onsite generation component.
They found 213 such buildings as 2014 dawned, compared to 99 in 2012. hile this remains a relatively small set of buildings,
the growth and diversity are important indicators for what we should expect in the coming years, Ralph Dinola,
executive director of New Buildings Institute, said in a statement. My favorite fact from the NBI 2014 report PDF:
ZNE buildings use only a quarter of the energy of average buildings. Measured energy consumption of the ZNE buildings is only about one-quarter of the average commercial building energy use today.
The average verified Energy use Index (EUI) 4 of these buildings is 21 kbtu/sf/yr. Among other key findings in the NBI report:
ZNE districts are a growing trend, with 18 identified; private sector ZNE development is climbing,
comprising 26 percent of verified and emerging buildings (like the Walgreen store in the Chicago area that recently opened);
renovations are claiming a ZNE role, at 24 percent of verified buildings; and ZNE isn restricted by climate it happening in all eight U s. Department of energy climate zones.
You can get a sense of this geographical diversity with the NBI interactive map of ZNE verified buildings
#Wind Tower is Another Step Toward Profitable and Sustainable energy Production Sheerwind announced their newest innovation as part of their Industry changing INVELOX technology.
or series and increases the electrical power output for a single tower. Sheerwind INVELOX#system is a large funnel that captures, concentrates,
Benefits of multiple turbines in single tower-120%additional power output at minimum added cost of turbine-generators-Reduced capital expenditure per kilowatt-Increased production capacity
for the first time in wind industry history three turbines may run in series in a single tower to produce more energy.
Zerobus TARC all-electric fleet is now providing fare-free rides for passengers along Main Market and Fourth streets.
With expansive windows an oval shape and a colorful blue and green design theye a distinctive addition to downtown. he city replica oonervilletrolleys have helped downtown revitalization over the years
Putting these zero emission buses on the street will connect residents with jobs education and other opportunities while improving air quality and offering 21st century transportation options to the region growing population for years to come.?
Charging stops are on the south side of Market street between Eighth and Ninth streets and on the west side of South Third street between York and Breckinridge streets.
Main-Market Zerobuses circle between 10th and Campbell streets. On Fourth Street the buses travel between Breckinridge Street and the Galt House circling around Fourth Street Live!
by taking Fifth street northbound and Third street southbound. South of Broadway the buses travel south on Third street and north on Fourth Street.
Zerobuses operate on Fourth Street from 7 a m.#7 p m. and on Main-Market from 7 a m.#8 p m. on weekdays.
Buses run on both routes from 10 a m. 6 p m. on Saturdays. The Main-Market route features red Zerobus stop signs.
Green bus stop signs are on the Fourth Street route s
#Watch Bill gates Drink Water From Human waste We know that Bill gates made a lot of money from Microsoft
Gates demonstrated by drinking a glassful himself. watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt
and drop into a large bin, said Gates. hey made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated.
so when I heard about this onet part of the Gates Foundation effort to improve sanitation in poor countries was eager to check it out.
said Gates. ur foundation is funding Janicki to do the development. It really amazing to see how theye embraced the work;
said Gates. hey will also test one of the coolest things I saw on my tour:
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