ART - Artist Creates Cloud Making Machine to Test Geoengineering "Limits of Knowledge"
Inspired by geoengineering techniques, an artist creates a personal cloud-forming machine to make a point ...
ART - Artist's Astounding Architectural Skylines are Made out of Scrap Wood
These imaginative sculptures are like no city you've ever seen -- and are made completely out of recycled wood ...
CLIMATE - Cities affect temperatures for thousands of miles
Even if you live more than 1,000 miles from the nearest large city, it could be affecting your weather. In a new study that shows the extent to which human activities are influencing the atmosphere, scientists have concluded that the heat generated by everyday activities in metropolitan areas alters the character of the jet stream and other major atmospheric systems. This affects temperatures across thousands of miles, significantly warming some ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-cities-affect-temperatures-thou
CLIMATE - Groundwater fate and climate change
(Phys.org)-Simon Fraser University earth scientist Diana Allen, a co-author on a new paper about climate changes' impacts on the world's ground water, says climate change may be exacerbating many countries' experience of water stress ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-groundwater-fate-climate.htm
CLIMATE - Why I Believe Obama On Climate
I almost never use the same title as original posts when I repost, but there's not a better fit for this one. Enjoy this thoughtful repost by Peter Sinclair (of Climate Denial Crock of the Week fame):"I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it." - attributed to Franklin RooseveltCall me a sap. I believe Obama.Like just about everyone reading this, I've been more than disappointed at the opportunities squandered in the past 4 years.In .. ...
EARTH - Earthquakes, glue and grappling hooks: Scientists dissect the movement of bacteria
(Phys.org)-A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has discovered that microscopic bacteria have a lot in common with earthquakes-when it comes to their jolting movements ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-earthquakes-grappling-scientist
ECONOMICS - Chet Pipkin: The Wealthiest Tech Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of
Belkin International, a private company based in Playa Vista, Calif., that makes computer and smart phone accessories, announced on Thursday that it has agreed to buy Cisco's Home Business Networking group including its Linksys brand for an undisclosed amount. The deal is expected to close in March ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2013/01/25/chet-pipki
ECONOMICS - Money Can Buy Happiness, If You Spend It On Other People!
It's easy to come to the conclusion that all of our technology, all of our wealth, all of our stuff is not really making us happy. It's true that getting a new gadget can give you pleasure every day you use it, but having ten new gadgets is not ten times more fun. Unless, of course, you're Oprah and you give each member of your staff an iPad. This kind of social giving, or "pro-social spending" can make you considerably hap ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/27/money-c
ECONOMICS - The Story of a Former Pastor Who Conquered Kickstarter and Created a 3D Printer Company
Like many who jumped early into 3D printing, Brook Drumm found the lower cost printers required a significant degree of assembly. Think Ikea, but with soldering guns, wires and less documentation. So he set out to build his own ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelwolf/2013/01/26/the-story
EDUCATION - Getting an MBA? Should you bother?
The value of an advanced business degree is eroding - at least as measured by the rate of pay increases for recipients, according to new research by the Financial Times. Bottom line is that graduates of the top US programs in the mid 1990s tripled their salaries in five years on average, but grads from the same schools saw half that increase in 2008 and 2009. That can't feel good - though I'd wager those salaries are still pretty robust to begin ...
ENERGY - 2013 Zayed Future Energy Prize Award Winners
As a part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, CleanTechnica was invited to attend the 2013 Zayed Future Energy Prize awards ceremony held at the Emirates Palace on January 15, 2013.The Zayed Future Energy Prize, managed by Masdar, reflects the great vision of the late founding father and former president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, who instilled a passion for sustainable development and environmental conservat .. ...
ENERGY - Community Energy Storage Installed In North York, Canada
A community energy storage (CES) system has been installed in North York, in Toronto, Canada.Power outage in Savannah.Photo Credit: Dave Hale on FlickrIt is a delight to write about community energy projects, as they bring money to local communities, and sometimes employment. This one provides direct backup (as opposed to power station backup) and facilitates a reliable supply of electricity right there in North York.This project will improve .. ...
ENERGY - Evolution inspires more efficient solar cell design: Geometric pattern maximizes time light is trapped in solar cell
(Phys.org)-The sun's energy is virtually limitless, but harnessing its electricity with today's single-crystal silicon solar cells is extremely expensive-10 times pricier than coal, according to some estimates. Organic solar cells-polymer solar cells that use organic materials to absorb light and convert it into electricity-could be a solution, but current designs suffer because polymers have less-than-optimal electrical properties ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-evolution-efficient-solar-cell-
ENERGY - Los Angeles Saves Millions With LED Street Light Deployment
Next month marks the four-year anniversary of the world's most ambitious LED street light conversion project. On February 16, 2009, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and President Bill Clinton announced a partnership under which the city, advised by the Clinton Climate Initiative, would outfit 140,000 street lights with light-emitting diode (LED) fixtures ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2013/01/25/los-ange
ENERGY - The Impact Of Fracking On America's Economy... From Space
See that cluster of lights by North Dakota? That's the result of fracking. Six years ago that light cluster did not exist. The reason is over the past years natural gas extraction though the use of fracking has increased exponentially as a result of the push for alternative fuel use and technological achievements.Fracking is the controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock using a chemical and water mixture. Depending on the me ...
ENERGY - U.S. To Bury Almost All Existing Nuclear Waste; Recycling Deferred At Least 20 Years
There's little hope that the 70,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel dispersed across the United States will ever be recycled, according to a recent study by Oak Ridge National Laboratory-so nearly all existing waste will go into the earth ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/01/28/deferring
ENERGY - We're On Target For Catastrophe, But Clean Energy Technology Is Growing Fast & Ready For Massive Deployment, But We're Still On Target For Catastrophe...
A group of international energy leaders were recently on a panel for "Sustainable Energy for All," a major UN initiative aimed at making "sustainable energy" available for all people or the world by 2030, at the recent World Future Energy Summit (part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week). The panel was a bit more controversial than most. And, beyond the diversity of perspectives on the panel, just following the panel there was a keynote speech by .. ...
FASHION - H&M and Brick Lane Bikes Collaborate On Menswear Collection
Cycling is getting cooler and more respected (aside from the whole Lance Armstrong debacle). From NBA superstars to Toronto doctors, integrating biking into everyday life is becoming the norm. And most people wear clothes while they pedal, so H&M has gotten with London's cycle shop Brick Lane Bikes to create a menswear collection for urban cyclists that will be launched in March.According to H&M, the 11 piece collection will be availab .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/26/hm-and-brick-lane-bikes-
HOMES - Today's Horrible Pending Home Sales Number Was Not About Falling Demand
The decline in inventory helped boost home prices in 2012 and has in large part factored into analysts' upward revision to home price forecasts for this year. But declining affordable housing inventory is said to have been behind the huge decline in December's pending home sales index. In a press release, Lawrence Yun chief economist at National Association of Realtors said "supplies of homes costing less than $100,000 are tight in much of the co ...
MOVIES - YouTubers hit the big screen for documentary Please Subscribe's theatrical release
On the surface, you wouldn't think of YouTubers as being the most reserved of people, but talking into a webcam doesn't necessarily reveal all your secrets. Which is why the documentary Please Subscribe, directed by Dan Dodi, aims to illuminate the realities of what it's like to create content for the YouTube community: chasing viewer numbers, aiming for ad dollars and dealing with the basic loneliness of the job. But while Please Subscribe's tar ...
PEOPLE - 3 Executives to Watch in 2013
The more time I spend watching the media world evolve, the more I come to believe that there a very few number of executives who have the right mix of strategy and empathy to lead big media into the new world ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenrosenbaum/2013/01/28/3-exe
PEOPLE - Peak Interest: A Young Egyptian Entrepreneur's Ambition to Conquer Mountains
The following post was published on the Arabic Knowledge@Wharton website on January 22, 2013http://www.forbes.com/sites/knowledgewharton/2013/01/25/4201
SCIENCE - Can dark energy be explained by symmetrons?
(Phys.org)-A field that permeates the universe and gives rise to a new force, or "fifth force," between massive objects may be a candidate for dark energy and an explanation for why the expansion of the universe is accelerating. This field, called the symmetron field, is so named because it has a symmetry in regions of high density, while in regions of low density, such as a vacuum, the symmetry is broken and the field mediates the new force ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-dark-energy-symmetrons.htm
SCIENCE - Computer scientists develop new way to study molecular networks
Computer scientists have developed a new approach to address the shortcomings in the computational analysis of the multiple ways interactions can occur within cells ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130124140727.ht
SCIENCE - Interview: CERN chief firmer on Higgs boson
The world should know with certainty by the middle of this year whether a subatomic particle discovered by scientists is a long-sought Higgs boson, the head of the world's largest atom smasher said Saturday ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-cern-chief-firmer-higgs-boson.h
SCIENCE - More than one brain behind Einstein's famous equation: E=mc2
A new study reveals the contribution of a little known Austrian physicist, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, to uncovering a precursor to Einstein's famous equation. Two American physicists outline the role played by Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenöhrl in establishing the proportionality between the energy (E) of a quantity of matter with its mass (m) in a cavity filled with radiation ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130125103931.ht
SCIENCE - Nearly 500 new species discovered at Senckenberg
In the last two years scientists at the Senckenberg research institutes have discovered and described almost 500 new species. Taxonomy and scientific collections are among the most important focal points of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-species-senckenberg.htm
SCIENCE - Novel materials: Smart and magnetic
Varying magnetic fields and temperature conditions help to elucidate smart materials' transitory magnetic disorder ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130128081944.ht
SCIENCE - Software package for all types of imaging
Signal reconstruction algorithms can now be developed more elegantly because scientists have released a new software package for data analysis and imaging, NIFTY is useful for mapping in any number of dimensions or spherical projections without encoding the dimensional information in the algorithm itself. The advantage is that once a special method for image reconstruction has been programmed with NIFTY it can easily be applied to many other appl ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130123094125.ht
SCIENCE - Varying magnetic fields and temperature conditions help to elucidate smart materials' transitory magnetic disorder
Novel, smart materials like shape memory alloys very often display so-called glass-like magnetism. Other smart materials with similar properties include those which, when exposed to a magnetic field, change their electrical resistance, known as manganites, or change their temperature, known as magnetocaloric materials. Kaustav Mukherjee and his colleagues from the Consortium for Scientific Research Indore in India studied a key stage in t ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-varying-magnetic-fields-tempera
SOLAR - Chile Adding 2.2 GW Of New Solar Power Capacity
Chile is aiming to add about 2.2 GW of new solar power installations to its grid within the next 15 years, according to a newly released plan.In the 125-page report, the National Energy Commission (CNE) states that investment in solar energy in the northern electricity transmission system will be equivalent to the price of coal power (at US$2,500 per kW), and that in the central electricity system, solar will be only slightly more expensive. O .. ...
SOLAR - Cost Of Electricity From Rooftop Solar By Australian State - Super Competitive!
For a low-cost installation, solar electricity is around half the cost of grid electricity or less in all state capitals and astoundingly cheap in South Australia.Mediocre Adelaide solarElectricity from rooftop solar is now very cheap in Australia compared to grid power. But just how much solar electricity costs a household over the life of a system is not an easy question to answer, as it depends on location, the cost of capital, feed-in tari .. ...
SOLAR - Home Solar On-Air Hangout With SolarCity, 1BOG, & CleanTechnica - Join Us!
Dave Llorens of One Block Off The Grid (1BOG) has organized a Google+ "On-Air" Hangout about Home Solar Power - the "first ever" Google+ On-Air Hangout on that topic. Aside from Dave, the discussion will include Jonathan Bass, Senior Director of Communications at SolarCity (which is getting a whole ton of solar power on rooftops across the US); me, your humble CleanTechnica servant; and I think some folks from Veterans United (the nation's lar .. ...
SOLAR - New Silicon Crystal Process Could Be Breakthrough for Cheaper Solar Energy
A new method of producing crystalline silicon at low temperatures has been developed at the University of Michigan, using a process similar to making rock candy from sugar ...
SOLAR - Organic Solar Cells Receiving Big Boost In Efficiency Thanks To 'Evolution-Inspired' Algorithm
In a potentially breakthrough discovery, researchers at Northwestern University have designed a new type of organic solar cell that will very likely lead to much higher efficiency and cheaper solar power.The new cell design is based around a new geometrical pattern to be used in the 'scattering layer' of a solar cell, which works to keep the light trapped in the cell for longer.The specific geometrical pattern was obtained by using a mathemati .. ...
SOLAR - Race To Break Solar Cell Efficiency Record Heats Up With New $12 Million Grant
The U.S. Department of Energy has just added another $12 million to an existing $35.8 million grant program aimed at producing the next generation of record-breaking solar cells that get closer to the theoretical maximum efficiency of about 30 percent. That goalpost was established back in 1961 and solar researchers have been chasing it ever since, but according to DOE a "sizable gap" still separates the current state of the technology from it .. ...
SOLAR - Solar Industry Shakeout - What It Really Means
There's a lot in the news these days about solar manufacturers going bankrupt. This news is often disheartening, and sometimes used to discredit solar technology and the industry itself. Based on a study I just recently completed, I can tell you that the global industry shakeout is just beginning. Many others have noted, however, that this does not spell bad news for solar technology, its adoption in mainstream society, or the future of solar .. ...
SOLAR - Solar power prices to continue falling through 2025, experts say
Prices for solar modules—the part of solar panels that produce electricity—will continue to fall, in line with the long-term trend since 1980, according to a survey of experts by Near Zero, , a nonprofit energy research organization. However, for prices to keep falling for the long term will require continued committment to research, such as on materials used for making solar modules ...
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-solar-power-prices-falling-expe
SOLAR - SolarCity Announces Pricing of Its Initial Public Offering
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SolarCity Corporation, a provider of clean distributed energy, announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $8.00 per share. The common stock is expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Market on December 13, 2012 under the ticker symbol “SCTY.” A total of 11,434,988 shares are being offered by SolarCity and 65,012 shares are being offered b ...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121212006723/en/Sola
SOLAR - Top Solar Power States (Per Capita)
I love rankings as much as the next guy, and as a cleantech fanatic, I especially love the rankings of states, countries, companies, etc. that show who's leading in solar power or wind power installations. However, what are often more important than absolute figures are relative figures. By looking at who's leading relative to various important metrics, we can focus in on who has great policies and who has horrible policies (and who has medioc .. ...
SPACE - Iran successfully sends monkey into space (Update)
Iran on Monday successfully sent a monkey into orbit, paving the way for a manned space flight, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told state television ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-iran-monkey-space.htm
SPACE - Planets Outside Of Our Solar System
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ehde45eeihg/super-earth-55-ca
SPACE - You don't exist in an infinite number of places, say scientists
(Phys.org)-If you've read about how modern cosmology may imply that, in an infinite universe, the existence of planets and the life forms that live on them must be repeated an infinite number of times, you may have been just a little bit skeptical. So are a couple scientists from Spain, who have posted a paper at arXiv.org criticizing the concept of the infinite repetition of histories in space, an idea closely related to the concepts of "alterna ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-dont-infinite-scientists.htm
SUSTAINABILITY - A Picture is Worth: Agenda 21 and The Green Movement as Marxist Plot
The cover of a new book by a leading Agender says it all: Sustainability is just the tip of the Marxist iceberg ...
TECH - A boost to your mobile signal
When using your mobile phone, it doesn't take much to lose that precious signal - just turning a corner or riding on a train can be enough. New research is developing new technologies to eradicate those annoying 'black holes' in wireless coverage, while freeing up some mobile network capacity at the same time ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130125111203.ht
TECH - A brief guide to tech lobbyists in Europe
In the last few years, lobbying by web giants like Google and Facebook has increased dramatically on both sides of the Atlantic. As noted by the Financial Times, Facebook's spending in Washington trebled in 2012 - and similar expansion has also been seen in Europe. That's no surprise, perhaps: with COO Sheryl Sandberg intimately familiar with the way power works, both from her time with the Department of the Treasury and then at Google. There's a ...
TECH - Google Experiments With New Flight Explorer Feature
Google is trying out a new travel search tool that seems to be aimed primarily at casual travelers that are as concerned about price as they are about a destination ...
http://searchengineland.com/google-experiments-with-new-flig
TECH - How to predict the future of technology?
Forget Moore's Law. USC Marshall, Emory University and University of Michigan researchers define new ways to evaluate new technologies. The bread and butter of investing for Silicon Valley tech companies is stale. Instead, a new method of predicting the evolution of technology could save tech giants millions in research and development or developments of new products -- and help analysts and venture capitalists determine which companies are on th ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130125142204.ht
TECH - More Than A Dozen Brands Of Security Camera Systems Vulnerable To Hacker Hijacking
Digital video recorders have revolutionized home and business security, making it possible to easily store and play back hundreds of hours of surveillance camera footage. But a few design flaws in their software, it seems, can quickly turn the watchers into the watched ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/01/28/more-th
TECH - New method of producing nanomagnets for information technology
Researchers have found a new method of producing molecular magnets. Their thin layer systems made of cobalt and an organic material could pave the way for more powerful storage media as well as faster and more energy-efficient processors for information processing ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130123133618.ht
TECH - Researchers break million-core supercomputer barrier
Stanford Engineering's Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem-the prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-million-core-supercomputer-barr
TECH - Researchers demonstrate laser cooling of a semiconductor
(Phys.org)-A team of physicists working in Singapore has, for the first time, demonstrated the cooling of a semiconductor using a laser. To achieve this feat, the team, as they describe in their paper published in the journal Nature, used a pump laser at a specified wavelength to annihilate longitudinal optical phonons (LOPs) causing a lowering of the temperature of the cadmium sulphide (CdS) sample ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-laser-cooling-semiconductor.htm
TECH - Soundrop turns Facebook pages into an interactive, collaborative MTV
The popular Spotify app Soundrop is expanding to Facebook, and it's doing so with a bang: Soundrop announced the launch of interactive music video listening rooms on Facebook artist pages Monday. The Norwegian company teamed up with Abba, Public Enemy, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Hot Chip and a few other popular artists for its launch, allowing Facebook users to enter social listening rooms on the artists' pages, vote for their favorite tracks ...
TECH - The 20 The Best-Paying Tech Companies for Interns
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URBAN - Elii Architect's House of Would is Made from Seven Separate Modules Unified with a Wooden Envelope
Read the rest of Elii Architect's House of Would is Made from Seven Separate Modules Unified with a Wooden EnvelopePermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: eco design, Elii Architects, green design, House of Seven Gables, House of Would, modular home, Pedrezuela, Spain, Spain modular homes, sustainable desig ...
URBAN - Temporary Timber Huts and Sandbag Walls Used for Recyclable Red Bull Music Festival in Spain
Read the rest of Temporary Timber Huts and Sandbag Walls Used for Recyclable Red Bull Music Festival in SpainPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: acoustics, eco design, festival design, gabled huts, green design, greenery, Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos, Red Bull Music Academy, Red Bull Music festival, sandbag insulation, Spain, sustainable design, temporary design, temporary events, temporary music festival, timber huts, Urban design, wa ...
URBAN - iGreen: Giant Entertainment Venue to be Made From Thousands of CDs and DVDs in China
In China, someone's old music collection is getting a second chance at life. MINIWIZ Sustainable Energy Development Ltd recently announced their plans to build the iGreen, an aviation museum featuring a 5D movie theater that will act as the centerpiece to Dream World park near Shanghai. At a diameter of 50 meters the globe will be one of the largest spherical structures in the world, and it will be constructed using 100% recycled CDs and DVDs. In ...
WATER - Geothermal Power Plant Cost Potentially Reduced By 50%
Geothermal developers from AltaRock Energy, a Washington state-based company, have been working on creating geothermal reservoirs with their own technology. They have recently made three such reservoirs from a single well, which means there is a greater chance a commercial geothermal plant can be built because with more reservoirs there is greater flow and energy output for each well. With human-made reservoirs expanding the energy output, the .. ...
WIND - Honda To Install Wind Turbines At Its Russels Point Plant
Honda intends to obtain 10% of the electricity its Russells Point transmission factory requires from a pair of wind turbines.Image Source: gocarts from FlickrThese wind turbines stand 260 feet tall; the blades will be 160 feet long and will be visible when driving through Logan County.They are to generate 10,000 MWh per year, which is enough to power an estimated 800 houses.Honda came to an agreement under which Juhl Wind of Pipestone, Minneso .. ...
WIND - Wind research study has potential to diversify state's economy, provide energy to California
New transmission and generation infrastructure, relative to power generated by Wyoming's vaunted wind, would help diversify the state's economy with more high-paying jobs-both during the construction and operation phases-while providing economically priced renewable power to California, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Wyoming's Wind Energy Research Center ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-potential-diversify-state-econo
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