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Windmills, while a beautiful and wonderful source of renewable energy, come in a package that is not very attractive. The spinning blades aren’t that good for birds, they are noisy, and overall, the maintenance costs can be quite high. For a lot of people, these are the prime reasons that turn them off windmills. With [...]

When it comes to rolling in the wind, the portable turbine by Uprise Energy has a mind of its own. The 50kW Portable Power Center is humble enough to quietly fit into a standard 40′ ISO shipping container, which makes it’s transport to a location easier and more manageable. In wind speeds up to 12mph, [...]

Poop. Taking a very shitty philosophical road, we can say there’s quite a weird persona about the whole act of excretion. Anything about poop has the power to attract attention, undesired or not. For our present purpose though, the idea seems to be an interesting one. The act of flushing the toilet is generally quite [...]

Innovation is always welcome, even if it be a wee tiny step in the direction. Allow that to be our reason for finding this LED Lantern interesting. For its power source, the lantern requires 350cc of salt water with a 3-5% salinity. Obtaining that shouldn’t be a problem on most of our planet. This salt [...]

A simple opening of the tap could become an energy generating activity, if the ES Pipe Waterwheel designed by Korean innovator Ryan Jongwoo Choi goes through. The design envisions water taps fitted with tiny hydel power generators. Waterwheels can be attached to any standard water piping, all it requires is that the Waterwheel be screwed [...]

In all the examples of DIY we have ever seen, never has our jaw hit the floor so hard as after seeing this one. It’s one thing to stick a few things together, and so totally different when someone builds a project as huge as this by themselves. Manfred Mornhinweg had a stream running near [...]

The promise of biomimicry opens up a lot of avenues in terms of design and looks. Mix that up with some good old clean energy, and we’ve got ourselves a winner. Designed by Adam Miklosi, this design seems to have been made specially for India, taking care of the country’s weather and variations.

The only reason wind power can compete with other sources like nuclear is because of government subsidies. It now appears that things might change a bit with the Japanese claiming a new innovation in turbine design technology. Named “wind lens” the technology promises to triple the output from traditional wind turbines and make the energy [...]

Doctoral candidate Paolo Bombelli worked with designers Alex driver and Carlos peralta at the Cambridge University to create a series of concepts that underline the use and importance that might ultimately come from Biophotovoltaics. BPV as it is called, is the idea of generating renewable energy much like photosynthesis in plants like algae and moss.

A lot of domestic energy use goes into heating water. Quite a lot of this could be put to good use with the help of solar hot water technology. This video details a solar water heating system from Sunnovation. Via JetsonGreen