Green Technology
Can Lithium-ion Take Over Lead-Acid Batteries for a Solar Energy System?
Lead-acid batteries are used heavily in solar energy systems due to two simple reasons, cost and simplicity. True, this two-century old battery type only offers a very crude maximum energy density of 75 watt-hours per liter, but it is quite easy and cheap to produce. One wouldn’t really mind the huge and bulky sizes of [...]
Other Green Hybrid EV Configurations Using Existing and Developing Technologies
A hybrid electric vehicle, using its technical definition, is a vehicle that uses a traditional internal combustion engine in tandem with an electric propulsion system. The configuration of such EV’s are widely considered a “technological bridge” that attempts to shorten the economic gap between the two technologies. But a hybrid vehicle, by its broader definition, [...]
The Perfect Plastic
Ever since Belgium chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1905, plastic has been the “the material of a thousand uses” for humans. Plastic has been used from plane cockpits in World War II to prosthetic implants and even life saving medical devices. One can see the usefulness of plastics all around in almost every aspect [...]
Cleaning Future Oil Spills with these Four New Cleaning Agents
On the fateful day of April 20, 2010, an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig occurred, with the ensuing events turning out to be one of the worst oil spills in history. In the wake of the environmental nightmare, some 585,000 tons of crude oil were released during a three-month period, spreading across the [...]
Green Tips
Top Ten Ways your Business Can Save Energy
Written by Lucy Pitt Thanks to the economic downturn many businesses are suffering and looking at ways to save money, but what many business owners don’t realize is that proper energy management is a fantastic way to reduce outgoings and be kind to the environment at the same time. Read on to find out the [...]
The Art of Traveling Slow
We humans like living in the fast lane. Information, communication, even house chores are geared up for speed. We have fed our hunger for speed to the point that a minor glitch is enough to throw our disposition off balance. Anyone who had time to cluck during a 3-second delay in elevators knows this. To [...]
Green Pizza
Pizza has been a trademark for the modern lifestyle, a pop culture icon, and even the answer to life’s most mysterious questions. To some people, there are a few things that will equal a family sized, quattro formaggi pizza with mozzarella, gorgonzola, fontina, stracchino and tomatoes as one of life’s best pleasures. Others like it heavy [...]
Beyond Locavore: Foraging 101
How do you survive without provisions in a deserted island in the middle of nowhere? You would probably do what our ancestors did a long time ago before McDonalds and Pizza Hut … you would forage. Foraging.org adopts this definition from Dictionary.com. “[Foraging is] the acquisition of food by hunting, fishing, or the gathering of [...]
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