Posts Tagged ‘power’

EU Bans Incandescent Lightbulbs To Save Energy

Friday, June 20, 2008 18:12 No Comments

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The European Union (EU) decided to follow Australia’s example and faze out the use of incandescent lightbulbs, starting from 2009. The fluorescent bulbs that will replace the old technology use five times less energy and last ten times longer, than the old counterpart, which in turn compensates the extra cost. Europeans are expected to [...]

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Shark Fin Design Helps Generate Electricity

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 22:30 1 Comment

Sometimes looking and observing nature can give us clues and answers on how to live our lives.
A company called bioPOWER designed the bioSTREAM a tidal power conversion system that is based on the shape of fish fins. In particular the shape of tuna, mackerel and shark fins is used by bioSTREAM. The undersea currents and [...]

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Ecological Online Game from IBM

Monday, February 18, 2008 18:00 No Comments

IBM created the PowerUp, an online multiplayer game which is hoped to “persuade” ids to help save the planet from an ecological disaster. The games purpose is to create 3 power sources, solar, wind, ad water before the planet is totally destroyed from storms, floods etc
In other words this is an educational online game probably [...]

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Transmitting power wireless to devices

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 18:41 No Comments

Its probably the next big thing. When most people were using radio frequencies for communications, Powercast was trying to use them to carry power to various devices. And they did it!
Its the first company that manage to make this concept into a reality. At this moment they are discussing with various clients on how to [...]

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