ENERGY - Los Angeles to be coal-free by 2025
Los Angeles is going coal-free by 2025. Here's how Mayor Villaraigosa and others responded to the good news ...
ENERGY - Oil Is Rallying
Brent oil prices are up 1.2 percent this afternoon as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced the agency's bond buying program would continue almost entirely in tact. WTI prices were also up 1.1 percent. Markets are also responding to Venezuela's announcement that it was suspending all contact with the U.S. Venezuela's foreign minister said he didn't know what kind of relations Washington wants in 2013. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Faceboo ...
ENERGY - PETE Devices Could Harvest Solar's Wasted Heat
Scientists working at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) have improved an innovative solar-energy device to be about 100 times more efficient than its previous design in converting the sun's light and heat into electricity."This is a major step toward making practical devices based on our technique for harnessing both the light and heat energy provided by the sun," said Nicholas Melosh, associate professor of mat .. ...
ENERGY - Soundscraper Transforms Vibrations from City Noise Pollution into Green Energy
Read the rest of Soundscraper Transforms Vibrations from City Noise Pollution into Green EnergyPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable energy", Cedric Dounval, Design, eco design, evolo skyscraper competition, green energy, Julien Bourgeois, kinetic energy, Olivier Colliez, Romain Grouselle, Savinien de Pizzol, Soundscraper, sustainable desig .. ...
ENERGY - The Carbon PACE Bond: Making Clean Energy Investment Irresistible
By Thomas Cheney and Geoff de RuiterWe are on the precipice of a carbon revolution! We will finally get our act together and decarbonize our energy systems, or we will blow past all carbon targets and completely destabilize our climate. So, how do we ensure the former? And more importantly, how do we crush the latter? The answer is we design broadly acceptable approaches to energy efficiency and renewable energy, and we get on the path to act .. ...
GARDENS - How to control a lawn irrigation system with Android and Arduino
Those crazy Googlers are at it again. Two of the company's engineers created a way to control a lawn irrigation system using a number of technologies, including Android, Ardiuno, Python, Dart and Google App Engine. J.J Barrons and Joe Fernandez demo their custom solution in this brief video, showing the simple Android app that's used to control the system, along with the hardware required to make it all work. The two took things a step further w ...
HOMES - CA Modern Home Tour: The Hidden Details of John Lautner's Incredible Elrod House
Read the rest of CA Modern Home Tour: The Hidden Details of John Lautner's Incredible Elrod HousePermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: alien architecture, alien-inspired homes los angeles, architecturally significant homes, architecturally significant homes california, architecturally significant homes los angeles, bambi and thumper, bob brisco, california modernism, diamonds are forever, elrod house, elrod residence, historic la home, hi ...
HOMES - China's Bruck House Apartment Complex Cuts Energy Use by 95%
Read the rest of China's Bruck House Apartment Complex Cuts Energy Use by 95%Permalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", Bruck apartments, Bruck House, Bruck Passive House, Changxing, china, green apartments, green design, Green Real Estate, passive house, Peter Ruge, Peter Ruge Architekte .. ...
HOMES - Clever cubbies augment tiny 240 sq. ft. NYC apartment
Small doesn't have to mean cramped -- in this renovation, architect Tim Seggerman uses lots of little crafted nooks to make it feel cozy yet spacious ...
HOMES - Old Cold War Era Missile Silo Hides a Luxurious Underground Home
When it comes to security, some homebuyers are looking for something a little more robust than your basic ADT system. Catering to this very particular breed of client, Bruce Francisco and his cousin Gregory Gibbons decided to take an old Cold War era missile silo in upstate New York and transform it into a luxurious (and extremely secure) half above-ground, half subterranean residence. The SiloHome may look like a typical lodge-style house at fir ...
SCIENCE - Elusive Graphene Butterfly Finally Spreads Its Wings
Graphene is an ultra-thin, ultra-conducting, ultra strong material that could spawn a whole new generation of ultra-efficient electronics, and hundreds if not thousands of researchers around the globe are racing to unlock the secrets behind its unique properties. It looks like the latest match will end in a draw, as two international research teams have both succeeded in manipulating graphene to produce a phenomenon that until now has only b .. ...
SCIENCE - LHC Creates Tiny Drops of Big Bang 'Blood Spatter'
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recreated the world's tiniest droplets of a primordial state of matter that last existed moments after the Big Bang, some 13.82 billion years ago. Continue reading ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-creates-worlds-smallest-
SCIENCE - 8 Of The Year's Most Oddly Gorgeous Science Images
Maze Dweller A goby fish peeks out of the coral it lives in. Goby fish are good housekeepers--they may remove algae from the coral that would otherwise smother it, undergraduate Chhaya Werner explained. Werner took this photo while doing field work in Panama. Chhaya Werner '14, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology A water slide for worms, the glorious C. instagram, and more Click here to enter the gallery Is this the era of C. instagra ...
SCIENCE - Artificial Skin That's Way More Sensitive to Touch Than The Real Thing
Scientists have created a paper-thin flexible "skin" that can detect pressure that's a few hundred times lighter than a gentle touch. This new material could eventually make its way into artificial or robotic limbs - but for now researchers have found that it is absolutely amazing at reading a pulse. We recently told you about new artificial skin that's as sensitive to touch as our fingertips. That sensor was made out of piezoelectr ...
SCIENCE - Physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time
Physicists have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice -- by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south poles of the magnetic islands did not arrange themselves in a zigzag pattern, but in chains ...
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SCIENCE - The Unexpected Artwork of Physicist Richard Feynman
In addition to being a world-renowned physicist, Richard Feynman was also an amateur artist, one who was fascinated by the power of lines and forms. He felt that his appreciation of art was deeply connected to his love of physics, representing an appreciation of the complexity and beauty of the world.Brain Pickings has a great collection of Feynman's art, and cites this paragraph from his essay "But Is It Art?" which appears in Sure ...
SCIENCE - Whimsical, animal-filled illustrations of mathematical concepts
Kasia Jackowska's Drawing Mathematics series takes an unusually adorable approach to illustrating mathematical concepts. The Pythagorean Theorem and Sierpinski triangles are conveyed through drawings of elephants, snakes, and deer.Jackowska created this series for a brochure published by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Warsaw. You can see the rest at her website.Drawing Mathematics [Kasia Jackowska via Radiolab ...
SCIENCE - World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland. Evidence of the minuscule droplets was extracted from the results of colliding protons with lead ions at velocities approac ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516200641.ht
SPACE - Does Alien Life Thrive in Venus' Mysterious Clouds?
Venus might not be somewhere you'd expect to find life, but there's a chance that its sulfrous clouds could be hiding something. Continue reading ...
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SPACE - Here's the supernova Johannes Kepler studied 400 years ago
These are the remnants of the last supernova known to explode in our galaxy whose light has reached Earth. It lit up the night sky in 1604 and attracted the attention of Johannes Kepler himself. But it's only in the last couple of decades that we've developed the technology to understand exactly what kind of supernova this is.Indeed, Kepler and his contemporaries didn't even have the benefit of telescopes when studying this supernova, let alone g ...
SPACE - LHC Creates Tiny Drops of Big Bang 'Blood Spatter'
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recreated the world's tiniest droplets of a primordial state of matter that last existed moments after the Big Bang, some 13.82 billion years ago. Continue reading ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-creates-worlds-smallest-
SPACE - New method proposed for detecting gravitational waves from ends of universe
A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516161739.ht
SUSTAINABILITY - Stopping floods with nature's help
Biomimicry offers a solution to use flood water in an industrial park ...
URBAN - A++ Architecture Unveils Plans for Shipping Container Homes in Bodrum, Turkey
A++ Architecture recently unveiled plans to construct a cluster of net zero energy buildings in Bodrum, Turkey. The new development will feature a number of highly efficient, low cost homes made from recycled shipping containers. The high-performing, low-cost homes will be finished so that the original form is perfectly disguised within the new architecture, and the interiors will be designed by Architect Carlo Colombo.+ A++ ArchitectureThe artic ...
URBAN - Artist's experimental greenhouse uses sugar for glass panes (Video)
Inspired by solitary cabins of old, this multi-coloured solarium uses hardened sugar for its transparent skin ...
URBAN - Beautiful Double Skin Shields China's Solar-Powered Green Energy Lab from the Harsh Sun
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URBAN - Glassy Renovation Brings Natural Light into Canadian Museum of Nature
Read the rest of Glassy Renovation Brings Natural Light into Canadian Museum of NaturePermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: canada, Canadian Museum of Nature, Daylighting, glass, glazed, green interiors, green renovation, KPMB Architects, Museum, natural light. Architecture, Ottaw .. ...
URBAN - Snøhetta Designs New Daylit Metro Station for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's largest city, is home to some pretty impressive modern architecture - and it's about to get another icon. Oslo-based architecture firm Snøhetta has been selected to design the city's new Qasr Al Hukum Downtown Metro Station, which will feature an impressive central oculus that will filter light far below ground level to a garden at its base. The station is just one part of a large, world-class public transit system that is ...
WATER - NYC announces flood protection plans
Mayor Bloomberg said New York City has plans to "battle against climate change. ...
WATER - Tidal Energy Could Be Next Big Wave
The U.S. Department of Energy has just unveiled a floating off-shore wind platform that it thinks could make a big splash. But it has already been working hard to commercialize "tidal energy" that uses underwater turbines to create electricity, which must then be wired into the grid. SeaGen - world's firs ...
WATER - Melting Glaciers: Photos
Goodbye, glaciers. These rivers of ice are melting worldwide ...
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WATER - Nanoscavengers could usher in next generation water purification
A new synthetic nanoparticle could disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water and then get removed magnetically. This improves upon existing technologies through ultraresponsiveness to magnetism ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130515151543.ht
WIND - Salkhit Wind Farm to launch Mongolia's clean energy future (Photos)
Mongolia takes its first steps towards clean energy ...
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