Posts Tagged ‘farm’

Selsam’s SuperTurbines Promise Better Efficiency For Wind Farms

Thursday, May 15, 2008 14:10 No Comments

Lately a lot has been written in press regarding new renewable systems (1, 2) that promise through their innovation to change our lives. Selsam?s SuperTurbines deliver just that and it probably one of the most promising new ideas. It flows on the idea that the higher you go the faster the wind is, so the [...]

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Solar Lily Pads On Rivers Generate Electricity

Monday, May 12, 2008 20:30 No Comments

I have heard of wind farms going offshore, but this is the first time I heard of an application of photovoltaic cells on water. Placing Solar Lily Pads in rivers and lakes is definitely the right step towards a carbon neutral city, it looks good, artistic and it generates energy. We all hope to see [...]

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Foodscape: Art with fruit and vegetables

Monday, January 7, 2008 20:32 No Comments

 

Carl Warner is a photographer and one of his projects, called Foodscape, involves using fruit and veggies to create a scene. Every picture is made up only from food that are placed in such a way as to depict something different. So in the picture above we see garlic, lemons, bananas and pears to represent [...]

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