Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project..
Official Website: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/253
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Th!nk City electric car, a four-seater with 110 mile (177km) range and top speed of 65 mph (104kph), priced under $25,000, made from 95% recyclable materials, available in Europe soon and also in the U.S. in 2009.
Official Website: www.think.no
Video Link: www.youtube.com
After having the following video on youtube for months now, Popular Science has gone and done an article on the suit and its maker, This thing is pretty amazing..
Article Link: www.popsci.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Requiring 80 percent fewer air conditioning units, the water-cooled Power 575 can reduce typical energy consumption used to cool the data center by 40 percent. IBM scientists estimate that water can be up to 4,000-times more effective in cooling computer systems than air..
Article Link: www.ibm.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
There isn’t any information available about it at this time other than it “might” cost up to $50k and it can move in any direction. It uses the same parts that a Segway uses but doubled, it can haul up to 400 lbs..
Article Link: www.makezine.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Luxim labs recently unveiled an incredibly energy efficient light bulb that packs more luminosity than a street lamp into a pill-sized form factor. Each bulb is filled with argon gas, which turns to plasma when electricity is focused through it. The energy is driven to the bulb without electrodes. The resulting light is intensely bright and mirrors the quality of light radiated by the sun, yet is produced by one of the smallest, most energy efficient light sources..
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate the first voiceless phone call.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.
Article Link: www.newscientist.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth, BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight..
Official Website: www.bostondynamics.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Here is a nice video of the installation of a wind turbine, these things are much larger than you first expect, keep up the great work ecotricity..
Official Website: www.ecotricity.co.uk
Video Link: www.youtube.com
In June 2007, The Lightning Car Company announced its intent to develop electric technology for a luxury British sports car – the Lightning GT. This car, to get where it needs to go, uses “electronically controlled traction control which negates wheel spin and unbalance in the power being applied.” Because there is no engine, the Lightning has a maintenance-free motor with just a few parts and together with the control electronics and special batteries, will not need anywhere near the servicing of other sports cars. The Lightning GT reportedly does 0-60 in four seconds and has 700+ rated bhp..
Article Link: www.ecogeek.org
Official Website: www.lightningcarcompany.com
The new System called the z10, with a starting price at about $1 million, comes as IBM focuses on lowering the price tag for running its storied line of data-crunching workhorses. The z10′s capacity is equivalent to 1,500 servers based on the popular x86 design, IBM says, though it has 85 percent lower energy costs and takes up 85 percent less space than the batch of x86 servers. The new machines also boast more processing horsepower, using 64 processors compared to the 54 processors used in its predecessor the z9..
Article Link: www.yahoo.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Lim Kah Bin and Hu Yu at the National University of Singapore have built a small cyclogyro that hovers and turns on the end of a tether. The small robotic aircraft powered by rotating paddle-wheel wings could yet rule the skies, if renewed interest in an antique design bears fruit..
Article Link: www.newscientist.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
CoolEarth is creating & using balloons made of metalized plastic films, half of the balloon is transparent letting the light in to be concentrated into a small high-efficiency solar panel by the concave interior. Each balloon is 2 meters across and depending on the source, estimates vary from 500 watt to 1 kilowatt. They are supported by cables, leaving the ground below clear and limiting environmental impact. It is reported that CoolEarth is planning to build a solar farm in the 10 megawatt range in the next few years. It would use about 10,000 balloons over 80 acres..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
Official Website Link: www.coolearthsolar.com
With an installed peak power capacity of 20 megawatts, world’s largest photovoltaic solar power farm has opened in Spain. This farm surpasses the solar farm at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada which is rated at 14 megawatts. The new solar farm consists of 120,000 solar panels and covers 100 hectares (247 acres) in Jumilla, a wine-producing region in southern Spain. The farm’s total annual production will be the equivalent of the energy used by 20,000 homes..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
The latest version has a new lithium-ion battery, a more efficient electric motor (10% lighter), a new inverter (30% smaller) and tires that rotate with less resistance. The range has been boosted to 160 km (99 miles) with the 16 kWh battery, which is 23% better than before.
Currently in its testing phase, Mitsubishi plans to sell the commercial version in 2010 for less than ¥2 million (US$17,000)..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
This is an awesome monster, built by Enercon, its called the E-126 which has a 126m diameter wind turbine. It has the power to create seven megawatts of electricity which is enough power to fuel more than 5,000 European homes. Its being built in Emden, Germany..
Article Link: www.ecogeek.org
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. and Patrick Pinhero of the University of Missouri, are developing a way to collect energy from the sun with a technology that could potentially cost pennies a yard, be imprinted on flexible materials and still draw energy after the sun has set..
Article Link: www.inl.gov
Finally the first decent consumer electric car is coming to market in the first quarter of 2008 and i can’t wait to start seeing some customer reviews of these Roadsters. The first version of the car is fully booked. Tesla is also working on a four door electric car..
Video Link: www.mahalodaily.com
My favorite video of the Tesla, proving what it has when it was a prototype..
Video Link: www.youtube.com
These are heading for Eastern Germany to create a 1-megawatt solar-power plant, being put together by the company Beck, on the site of a former landfill. 1-megawatt can power about 400 homes.
Article Link: www.celsias.com
About half the size of a football field and 21 stories tall, the largest optical telescope ever constructed will use almost 1,000 mirrors to hunt for exoplanets—and maybe even unlock the secrets of space & time..
Article Link: www.popsci.com
According to developers, the technology is capable of scaling to massive sizes, with a proposed $53M turbine able enough to replace 1000 traditional windmills and power 750 thousand homes. Additional benefits include the ability to generate power with winds as slow as three miles per hour, operational costs some 50 percent cheaper than windmills, and an estimated lifespan of 500 years..
Article Link: www.engadget.com
