This will be a Maker tourist attraction, it looks stunning… BBC’s David Shukman on a solar station in Spain – There is a scene in one of the Austin Powers films where Dr Evil unleashes a giant “tractor beam” of energy at Earth in order to extract a massive payment. Well, the memory of it […]
Beth at Yarn Demon has a pattern to knit this net shopping bag which is perfect to carry your groceries. Link.
Here’s an interesting idea, use the wind generated from cars on highways to power turbines, Joe writes – The highway system that dissects Phoenix is expansive. While connecting 515 square miles of the Sonoran desert to support our sprawling culture, the valley freeways divide communities. My catalyst proposes to retroactively collect royalties on the land […]
Adds C02 emission information to travel sites, extremely clever – Real Costs is a Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce website. The first version adds CO2 emissions information to airfare websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, etc. Following versions will work with car directions, car rental, and shipping websites. Think of […]
Washington Post on some of the reasons we’re not rapidly adopting CLFs in the USA – I’m not sure I agree it “being a is a lack of communication between the sexes.” The current market share of CFL bulbs in the United States is about 6 percent, up from less than 1 percent before 2001. […]
Daniel made a fantastic soda-can water heater, he writes – While I have electricity out to the garage now, heat has been an issue all winter long. Mattar graciously lent me his kerosene heater, which did an okay job of taking the bite off the chill. Insulating the garage would go a long way to […]
Here’s how to make a a photo bio reactor (artificial environment for photosynthetic organisms) that will slurp C02 from the air – I have wanted to do this a project for a long time and with earth day this year it kinda just fit timing wise. Its really a simple and quick build, yet getting […]
