Artificial trees could function as solar-wind harvester
SolarBotanic is a company which researches and specializes in an emerging tech dubbed biomimicry — which seeks to mimic nature, and use nature-inspired methods to solve human problems. SolarBotanic is focusing on energy production, and, to that end, they’ve developed what they call Energy Harvesti……
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NYT: Google's PowerMeter to let users track electricity usage
The New York Times is reporting Google will announce a free web service tomorrow called PowerMeter that’ll let users track energy consumption in their homes or business, provided there’s a means to upload the data. That part of the equation’s gonna be up to other companies to create compatible de……
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The best of the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, so far
The Greener Gadgets Conference is coming up in a few weeks here, so we thought we’d bring you some highlights of the design competition it’s sponsoring. First up, Recompute is a fully sustainable design for a desktop computer — meaning that it makes use of low-impact manufacturing, uses fully recy……
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