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With its wind turbines built in between each floor, and the claims that the building will generate 10 times more energy than required to power it. The new tower is the first building of its size to be produced in a factory. Each floor, made up of 12 individual units, complete with plumbing, electric connections, air conditioning, etc., will be fabricated in a factory. These modular units will be fitted on the concrete core or spine of the building at the central tower..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
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Wind turbines at ground level produce at a rate of 20-25%, but when placed at altitudes from 600-1000 feet, energy output can double. Ottawa-based Magenn Power is in the prototype stages of the world’s first floating wind turbine. The Magenn Air Rotor System or MARS is a stationary blimp kept afloat with helium and tethered into place on an electrical grid. Centrifugal blades on the MARS can generate up to several megawatts of clean, renewable energy at a price well below our current grounded wind turbines..
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com

BrightSource Energy has just raised a massive $115 million in Series C funding and has added some big new names to its list of investors including Google.org, BP Alternative Energy, StatoilHydro Venture and Black River. Solar Thermal Energy is where they use large mirrors to heat a pool of water to produce steam and power trubines which then produce electricity. The video below is from BrightSource and is of the construction of their Israeli pilot plant..
Article Link: www.earth2tech.com
Video Link: http://video.google.com

Hippo Rollers are a water transportation device, the roller holds 3-4 days worth of water for a family of 7, about 5 times the amount of water that can be moved using traditional methods, which frees up time for more productive economic and educational activities. It’s an amazing product and an amazing story of good design enabling communities. Inhabitat.com has an interesting article where they are reporting on 75 Hippos that have been donated to a village in South Africa..
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com
Official Website: www.projecthdesign.com

By using the SkySails-System, a ship‘s fuel costs can be reduced by 10- 35% on annual average, depending on wind conditions. Under optimal wind conditions, fuel consumption can temporarily be reduced by up to 50%.
The first pilot systems are in operation on board of cargo vessels. Currently, SkySails is offering SkySails-Systems for cargo ships, fish trawlers and super yachts with towing kite areas of up to 320m².
Virtually all cargo ships can be retrofitted with the SkySails technology trouble-free..
Article Link: www.ecogeek.org
Official Website: www.skysails.info

The GATR-Com is the brainchild of engineer Paul Gierow, who spent 20 years developing large deployable space antennas for NASA. It’s an ultralight, ultraportable antenna tucked inside an inflatable shell that can pull down a superfast broadband satellite connection at any location. The GATR-Com is designed for disaster-relief responders, far-flung video producers and front-line troops-anyone whose job (or life) depends on getting digital information-video, Internet, calls-in and out of remote places..
Article Link: www.popsci.com
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The ZENN is a Canadian made Neighborhood Electric Vehicle being sold in the United States. On average it costs one to two cents a mile to drive the ZENN, it has a driving range of approximately 35 miles on a single charge and with a top speed of 25mph (40km/h)..
Official Website Link: www.zenncars.com
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Ever wanted to play a game where the better you do the more you donate to charity!?! Well now you can with freerice.com!
Test yourself on your vocabulary and for each question you get right, 20 grains of rice get donated.

This is a is an amazing idea of how we can help stop world hunger, and its really taken off around the world which is great to see. =)
Website Link: www.freerice.com

The company produces its PowerSheet solar cells with printing-press-style machines that set down a layer of solar-absorbing nano-ink onto metal sheets as thin as aluminum foil, so the panels can be made for about a tenth of what current panels cost and at a rate of several hundred feet per minute..
Article Link: www.popsci.com