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Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil

Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil

Welcome to the Global Cleantech 100 | Guardian Sustainable Business The fifth annual Global Cleantech 100 provides a snapshot of the most exciting, innovative and potentially significant cleantech companies. This year, 9,125 total nominations were whittled down to a final 100 via a three stage process. Nominations came from worldwide experts as well as "passive" nominations derived from analysing market data, taking votes of confidence in a company's ability to achieve high growth and high-market impact from market transactions, and major customer and partnership announcements. These nominations made a longlist of 5,864 companies (up 13% on last year). The result is a list that represents the breadth of cleantech innovation companies.

The R Project for Statistical Computing Scientists Develop Affordable Solar Panels That Work In The Dark It's about damn time, don't you think? Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced Wednesday that they have been able to confirm a new high-efficiency solar cell design that utilizes nearly the entire solar spectrum. Translation: They figured out a way to make solar panels generate electricity in the dark. CleanTechnica says , In earlier trials, the researchers used different alloys that achieved full spectrum responses but involved very high production costs. The Lawrence Berkeley breakthrough represents just one path to increasing the efficiency and lowering the cost of solar cells. In the meantime, you could just turn any metal surface into solar panels with photovoltaic spray paint . [Photo: Norby /Flickr]

Wireless Geographic Logging Engine - Plotting WiFi on Maps news: Congrats to user 'fenebrae', our 150,000th user! Netstumble proud! Users make this whole thing possible -bobzilla Come find us at BSides SF security conference at DNA Lounge today and tommorow, then at Trustycon on Thursday! WiGLE on android has been updated, fixes the OpenStreetMaps issue (they blocked the library we were using, so we're now serving the map tiles ourselves). Congrats to user 'jmaslak' who got the 120 millionth network on January 12th. We're doing some sprucing up: the web maps have been converted to Google Maps v3 (the older version is going away soon). twelve (12) years ago today on a Friday in September of 2001, bobzilla released a grain of sand called WiGLE.net into the intertubes. this bright core, fed on networks and kittens, has gathered over a hundred million nacreous network layers from over two billion observations you all have sent our way over the last .6 score years, and become a massive mappy/blinky perl! -uhtu Older Articles

Turn Steel Into Solar Panels With Photovoltaic Spray Paint No, it's not a joke or a crazy awesome futuristic concept . It's real. Tata Steel Europe (formerly Corus) and Swansea University in Wales, UK are collaborating to develop a spray-on technology that would transform steel sheets into solar panels. The technology has significant applications since it is highly efficient even in diffused sunlight. If extended, the technology can find its way to the automobile industry where photo-sensitive dyes can be applied to cars to generate electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel cells. Imagine the applications of such a product. The power options could be limitless. And if you think the spray-on solar technology is years away from reality, think again. The technology gains significance because the process of 'printing' these dyes on the steel sheets has already been mastered by Tata's European subsidiary Corus which is working on a new plant for the production of these steel sheets. [Photo: Jaredmoo /Flickr]

Jungfraujoch, Suiza: Centenario de un sueño sobre raíles en Espíritu Viajero, magazine de viajes online El Jungfraubahn, “tren rojo”, subiendo hacia la estación Jungfraujoch Se han cumplido 100 años (1 agosto) de una gesta ferroviaria: Jungfraujoch, la estación más alta de Europa, situada a 3.454 metros de altitud. Y como en Suiza la vida, más que sobre ruedas, va sobre raíles, éstos son capaces de llevarnos hasta allí intercambiando trenes desde los mismísimos aeropuertos de Ginebra o Zurich. Aunque Jungfraubahn, el ‘tren rojo’, tiene su punto de partida en Kleine Scheidegg, estación situada a 2.061 metros de altitud, la aventura ferroviaria tiene un preludio que arranca en Interlaken, acogedora localidad del Oberland Bernés que, como su nombre indica, se gestó entre dos lagos otrora unidos: Brienz y Thun. Mirador de Harden Kulm, con vistas panorámicas sobre Interlaken y la Jungfrau El viaje en tren desde Interlaken a Jungfraujoch, que dura unas dos horas y media, arranca en la estación de Interlaken-Ost. Jungfraubahn en el interior del túnel hacia Jungfraujoch Ver mapa más grande

Renewable Energy Used to Make Drinking Water From Air Humidity – Blue Living Ideas Availability Published on June 18th, 2009 | by Jennifer Lance Scientists have discovered a way to make drinking water from the air’s humidity, even in arid regions. The system completely uses renewable energy and could provide water for many applications. Models have been built and tested in laboratories at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgart. Image by hamed saber Scientists can make drinking water from desert air. Even in areas where there is no surface water or plant life, there is still moisture in the air. The process uses thermal solar collectors and photovoltaic cells, so it can function where there’s no electricity, such as in deserts. Removing the humidity from the air to make drinking water is a unique solution, but I wonder what the meteorological consequences would be to the environment. Would it affect precipitation in non-arid regions? About the Author

Aventuras de un dominguero: ALPES 2012 | 11. Jungfraujoch, Top of Europe Miércoles 8 de Agosto. Llevábamos 10 días por los Alpes disfrutando de parajes increíbles y este, nuestro último día, no iba a ser menos. Aunque el día anterior el clima no estuvo del todo bien, haciendo caso a las predicciones metereológicas nos arriesgamos y compramos los billetes para el Jungfraubahn, el ferrocarril de montaña que sube, atravesando el corazón del Monte Eiger, a la estación de tren más alta de Europa, a 3.454 metros de altura. Una vez arriba, en Jungfraujoch: "el techo de Europa", obtendríamos unas vistas asombrosas de los montes Jungfrau, Mönch y Eiger, así como del glaciar más extenso, largo y profundo de los Alpes: El glaciar Aletsch, todo ello declarado patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO. Jungfraubahn. El día amaneció perfecto, así que pese al madrugón para coger el tren, estábamos contentos. El primer tren lo cogimos en la estación de Interlaken Ost. Kleine Scheidegg. Este primer tren llega hasta Kleine Scheidegg, a las faldas de Mönch y Eiger. Grindelwald.

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