Forget the electric vehicle revolution--this car is juiced up by the same stuff that powers you in the morning. The "Carpuccino" car was built by a team from the BBC science show Bang Goes The Theory to prove the viability of cars ...READ»
You crash in a car and an air bag inflates to cushion the blow, but what happens if you crash on a motorcycle? That's the problem that the Thermahelm, a brain-cooling motorcycle helmet, tries to solve. It's a potentially life-saving ...READ»
Sure, the cotton industry wants us to think that the material is the fabric of our lives. But maybe it actually is--in more ways than one. Cotton can usually only be eaten by cattle, which have stomachs that can break down ...READ»
Amidst news of massive solar and wind power plants comes word of a small but significant achievement--the world's first osmotic power plant. Statkraft's $7 million plant, located in Tofte, Norway, only produces enough energy to run ...READ»
The world's most efficient electric car isn't much to look at--yet. Designed by Gordon Murray (the design mind behind the tiny T25 city car) and Zytek Automotive, the T27 EV will supposedly be incredibly efficient thanks to its low ...READ»
Here's a food-related invention that is even weirder than the notorious Beanzawave: The Cocoon, a concept cooker that grows meat and fish from heated animal cells in a process that looks disturbingly similar to magic animal growing capsules.READ»
Kids these days--they just keep inventing new technologies to secure
our energy future. The latest comes from Milan Karki, an 18-year-old
resident of a rural village in Nepal. Karki has purportedly devised a
way to dramatically ...READ»
The amount of detergents, solvents, and smelly kitchen-cleaners found on supermarket shelves is mind-boggling. Someday soon, though, these toxic agents of cleanliness could become relics of the past. Scientists at Purdue University ...READ»
A warning to wind turbine installers: be careful where you set up shop. People living near wind turbines have long complained of health problems, and now a study from New York pediatrician Dr. Nina Pierpoint attempts to confirm the ...READ»
You might not think that a straw house could be better insulated than one made of, say, brick, but that's exactly what researchers at the University of Bath in the U.K. intend to prove with the BaleHaus, a home constructed from straw ...READ»
Conventional microwaves are some of the biggest energy hogs in the house, using 750 to 1,100 watts of power when in use--more than both refrigerators (725 watts) and washing machines (350 to 500 watts). Enter the Heinz Beanzawave. READ»
Europe's first artificial reef, located off the coast of Bournemouth in the U.K., is finally nearing completion. The $5 million, two and a half acre reef, originally scheduled to be finished last fall, will double the size of ...READ»
Geothermal power plants are the ugly ducklings of the energy world; they're not as big or flashy as wind and solar plants, and most of their energy-producing magic happens underground. But a new $25 million geothermal plant being ...READ»
McDonald's has come under fire recently, with Greenpeace accusing the company of destroying rainforest lands and the UK Daily Mail claiming that the company is responsible for 29% of all take-out litter in the country. Now ...READ»
The world's first completely solar-powered stadium, located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is set to be completed in time for July's World Games. The massive stadium has a 14,155 square meter roof area--every inch of which is covered ...READ»
The Internet has been buzzing about the WorldFirst ecoF3 vehicle, a race car made from vegetables that runs on chocolate-derived biofuels, for the past month. Now the race car's developers at the Warwick Innovative Manufacturing ...READ»
Last year, Sears introduced the $200 EcoGIR suit for men--the world's first suit made from recycled PET bottles. Now women get their own line of eco-suits with a comparatively inexpensive $80 Debenhams trouser combo made from ...READ»
Samsung won kudos at January's Consumer Electronics Show for energy-efficient LED TVs (LED 6000, LED 7000, LED 8000) that best Energy Star guidelines. The company also claims that the TVs are entirely mercury-free from the ...READ»
Lots of people claim to have built compressed air cars--some totally bogus and others slightly less so--but so far a tangible product has not materialized, despite repeated claims from Tata Motors and Motor Development International ...READ»
Britain's Prince Charles may be a climate change champion, but his mother's house is an environmental nightmare according to a team of surveyors from renewable energy firm Navitron. Buckingham Palace came in dead last in the ...READ»
