July 28, 2009 Awesome! Who knew you could use broken panels to harness solar power?
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July 25, 2009 
This is just amazing. EcoTechDaily has just released annoyingly simple plans to make your own solar-powered heater. All you need is some aluminum cans, an old window, and a couple of tools.
The windowframe has holes on the bottom where air enters and one hole on top. You paint all the cans black, drill holes on the bottom of them, and stack them in the window as pictured. The hot cold air enters through the bottom, heating up tremendously as it passes from can to can (and as we all know, hot air rises). You can then direct the hot air into any room through a dryer vent or something similar.
When I first saw this, I thought it was too simple to work. But the author claims he got the heat up to 105 degrees! Read the rest of this entry »
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July 22, 2009 I really, really love the idea of vertical farms. What’s not to love about growing food without wasting horizontal land space?
Architect Laurie Chetwood came up with this winning design for a bridge across London’s Thames river. From Inhabitat:
Recently Chetwood Architects unveiled a stunning proposal for a futuristic London Bridge that sprouts a towering vertical farm in the midst of the Thames river. The bridge’s solar-powered spires are crowned with wind turbines and house a self-sufficent organic farm and commercial center that takes advantage of renewable energy generation, efficient use of water, solar heating, and natural ventilation.
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July 19, 2009 Well, well, well. Would you take a look at this Inhabitat article?
A human-powered energy-generating gym like Hong Kong’s is now taking shape in Seattle, turning human sweat into usable electric energy. By connecting spinning bikes to wind-generator motors, clients at Adam Boesel’s green microgym can generate enough electricity to power the gym’s music system or run their own personal DVD player.
Amazing. I was just talking about this in my piezo electricity post. (Just look at my last paragraph.) True it might not create large amounts of electricity, but
Necessity is the mother of invention, as we know, but so are pioneers who aren’t afraid to jump in and be the first to try things out. And refine, going back to the drawing board if need be. Major props go to Adam Boesel for not being afraid to run with this idea. The more people see it, the farther it spreads, where hopefully some other curious scientist/entrepreneur will try to improve upon it.
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July 16, 2009 Watch the video above for Obama talking about the energy crisis.
I believe Obama really does want to change our dependance on oil. But is he making it happen? That, I haven’t come to much conclusions about. In the beginning I was excited about him taking the presidency. I was convinced he’d at least do more (or try to do more) than Bush has done. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 16, 2009 Now that’s what I call innovation!
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