Posts Tagged ‘Energy’

The ‘Le Project Triangle’ is a new building being built in Paris by the famous architecture firm, Herzog and de Meuron.   The building will be Paris’ first new building in over 30 years thanks to a change in mayor of the city.  The new mayor of Paris vetoed a ban on any new construction in [...]

We create energy in our everyday lives, which when unharnessed goes unused.   I’ve been seeing many designers coming up with ingenious ways to capture this energy and use it for the purpose of powering something which conventionally required electric or battery power.  Designer, Deco Goodman, is no exception.  Goodman created a headlight and tail light [...]

I used to work in a building where the heater didn’t work.  This was obviously fine during the summer but during the winters it was excrutiatingly painful.  My whole body was cold but the one thing I noticed was it was difficult for me to type and therefore work because my hands were ice cold.  [...]

Don’t worry about changing another light bulb again!  Frog Design, a renowned global design firm, has created a environmentally friendly light bulb which can last up to 30 years.    The light bulb fits into a standard light bulb socket so you won’t need to retrofit all your lamps and lighting fixtures.  They offer better energy [...]

The technology to recharge batteries has been around a long time, but people continue to buy expensive non-rechargeable batteries.  Well, if you can’t beat em, then join em.  Sort of.  Designer Sun Woo Park has created a street light that will accept batteries to power it.  The concept is simple.  There are holes in a [...]

Solar power plants are being developed all over the world, but none is bigger than the one planned to be built in the state of Gujarat in India.   This plant is still in the planning phases, but with a power output of 5 gigawatts this will be the world largest solar installation project.  Additionally, the [...]

When one visualizes alternative energy, often the images that one sees are either large windmills in a distant field of grass or fancy looking displays of solar panels on rooftops.  Add a new image to your brain.  Crap!  Chicken crap to be exact.  Yes, the Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg has unveiled a biomass power plant [...]

While you may be thinking outside the box for work,  you can now live in it when you get home!  More and more people are building homes from recycled freight containers.  The original idea of using the containers for abodes was started by TempoHousing.  Their original idea was to use these old containers as temporary [...]

Instead of just burning energy at the gym, your workout can now create energy! Green Microgym in Portland, Oregon, which opened a couple of days ago, uses the energy expended by its members to create energy to powers some of its machines.  While they will only be able to power about 20-25% of the machines [...]

Using inspiration from nature, designer Vivien Muller created the Solar Cell Tree Charger to serve as functional technology art.  The solar cell tree charges uses 54 miniature solar panels to collect energy and then stores it in a battery.  The harnessed power can later be used to power portable devices such as a cell phone, [...]