Anheuser-Busch partners with Recurrent Energy to meet renewable energy goals
“Anheuser-Busch is making good on its pledge to be a more renewable brewer. The company said it is partnering with San Francisco-based solar developer Recurrent […]
A 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
“Objects made with 3-D printing can be lighter, stronger, and more complex than those produced through traditional manufacturing methods. But several technical challenges must be […]
New Method for Engineering Metabolic Pathways
“Cells are incredibly adept at creating complex molecules, like therapeutics, and can do so much better than many of our best factories. Synthetic biologists look […]
Finland pledges to become carbon neutral by 2035
“Finland’s new left-leaning coalition government has pledged to make the country carbon neutral by 2035 as part of a policy programme that includes a major […]
Robots Built This Futuristic House That Generates More Energy Than it Needs
“The DFAB House is the world’s first home designed, planned, and built with mainly digital processes—and it’s entirely powered by the sun. Step inside the […]
Sensors Detect Food Freshness to Replace Use-By Dates
“Most of us are familiar with the practice of checking the use-by dates on food packaging labels. It turns out that many customers throw away […]
Discovery sheds light on synthesis, processing of high-performance solar cells
“Halide perovskite solar cells hold promise as the next generation of solar cell technologies, but while researchers have developed techniques for improving their material characteristics, […]
KLM’s New “Flying-V” Plane Puts Passenger Seats in the Wings
“Airlines are testing all sorts of ways to make planes less of a drag on the environment. Virgin Atlantic recently used recycled wasteto power a commercial […]
Carmakers To White House: Work With California On Rules For Greenhouse Gases
“Seventeen of the world’s largest automakers have asked the White House and the state of California to restart talks and come up with one set […]
Pioneering 3D Printed Device Sets New Record for Efficiency
“A new 3-D printed thermoelectric device, which converts heat into electric power with an efficiency factor over 50% higher than the previous best for printed […]
Desalination with zero emissions
“Desalination – the removal of salt and impurities from seawater – is one solution to the growing problem of freshwater scarcity, which is set to […]
Einride’s driverless trucks hit public roads in Sweden
“Einride is entering a new phase it development, as it deploys self-driving trucks in Sweden. The service is part of the startup’s ongoing collaboration with […]
Researchers gain key insight into solar material’s soaring efficiency
“The rows of blue solar panels that dot landscapes and rooftops are typically made out of crystalline silicon, the workhorse semiconductor found in virtually every […]
How electric and driverless vehicles will change building design
“Charging infrastructure can be retrofitted, but it is a significantly more expensive option than building it into a design from scratch. A key consideration for […]
Hungary Is Building A $1 Billion Carbon-Neutral Town From Scratch
“Hungary is planning to build a fully carbon-neutral town from the ground up in the northwest of the country, Bloomberg reports. German property investment company FAKT invested […]
Generative Design Methods Combine 3D Printing & Organic Evolution
““Go take your lessons from nature, that’s where our future lies.” – Leonardo da Vinci Virginia Commonwealth Universitystudent Mohammad Jawad takes a forward-looking approach to […]
The Futuristic Tech Disrupting Real Estate and Construction
“In the wake of the housing market collapse of 2008, one entrepreneur decided to dive right into the failing real estate industry. But this time, […]
WoodMac: Solar Plants Cheaper Than Natural Gas ‘Just About Everywhere’ by 2023
“Solar will soon be able to out-compete gas-fired plants around the world on a levelized cost basis*. That doesn’t mean it will be any easier […]
China’s built a road so smart it will be able to charge your car
“The road of the future is likely to become the brain and nerve center of an autonomous-driving revolution. The road to China’s autonomous-driving future is […]
Wood Gets a Makeover to Provide Energy-Free Air Conditioning
“Powering buildings costs America $430 billion a year and accounts for 40 percent of total energy use. Almost half of that is used for heating and […]
This robot can pick tomatoes without bruising them and detect ripeness better than humans
“Farmers spend more than $34 billion a year on labor in the U.S., according to the USDA. And many would like to hire more help. […]
EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations in UK
“Newly released figures from Zap-Map, a charging point platform, reveal that the number of public charging locations in the country has now surpassed the number […]
Virtual reality building: Is VR the future of construction?
“Lift Mini Cranes Ltd takes a look at how virtual reality (VR) is currently being put to use in the construction industry, and how it could […]
Cities can follow Stanford’s energy makeover to cut emissions of carbon dioxide affordably, new study finds
“Over the past several years, Stanford transformed its energy infrastructure by electrifying its heating system, replacing its gas-fired power plant with grid power, creating a […]
Cars will change more in the next decade than they have in the past century
“While the look and feel of our cars has changed in the past 100 years, the way we drive them hasn’t. But fundamental change is […]
Self-driving trucks to begin carrying U.S. mail
“TuSimple, a self-driving truck company based in San Diego, California, announced yesterday that the United States Postal Service (USPS) has awarded it a contract to […]
Why new solar installations will reach a breakneck pace by 2025
“The rise is set to continue. Solar power is about to reach an inflection point. A new report released on Thursday claims that installations in […]
Smart Device Detects Food Contaminants in Real Time
“Some consumers place importance on locally grown or organic food. Others want the products they purchase to look and taste good. Yet others focus on […]
Bolt Mobility Unveils $9,999 Electric Car Designed For Car-Sharing In Cities
“Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest human, is backing an electric car startup based in Florida called Bolt Mobility. This past week, the company unveiled its […]
PixelGreen: A hybrid, green media wall for existing high-rise buildings
” Researchers at Deakin University and the University of Hong Kong have recently designed a hybrid green architectural wall system for high-rise buildings that integrates […]
Bringing human-like reasoning to driverless car navigation
“With aims of bringing more human-like reasoning to autonomous vehicles, MIT researchers have created a system that uses only simple maps and visual data to […]
How ‘doping’ boosts next-gen solar cells towards commercialisation
“An international team of researchers has brought a new generation of solar cells a step closer to commercialisation, by showing how sunlight can trigger a […]
Honda And GM to Research Smart Grid, Electric Car Interoperability With Blockchain Tech
“Major automobile manufacturers Honda and General Motors (GM) are jointly conducting research on electric vehicle and smart grid interoperability using blockchain tech, Japanese news outlet Nikkei reported on May 20. As […]
Amsterdam announces plan to ban all polluting cars by 2030
“The city of Amsterdam announced its plan to replace all gasoline and diesel-powered cars and motorcycles with electric vehicles by 2030. The plan is an attempt to […]
NASA is working on electric planes powered by cryogenic hydrogen
“To clean up the aviation industry, NASA-funded scientists are working to develop an all-electric aircraft powered by cryogenically-liquified hydrogen fuel. The University of Illinois scientists […]
Watch a 3D printed neighborhood spring up from nothing
“We’ve already seen a 3D printer construct a house. Now we can watch one build a whole neighborhood. Last Thursday, housing nonprofit New Story shared […]
Mercedes want to abandon combustion engines by 2039
“German giant Mercedes-Benz said Monday it wants to stop selling traditional combustion engine cars by 2039 and plans for its new vehicles sold worldwide by […]
Researchers make organic solar cells immune to the ravages of water, air and light
“Researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have discovered a remarkable means of making organic solar panels more robust, including conferring resistance […]
App Converts Aerial Crop Photos Into Real-Time Metrics of Plant Growth and Crop Health
“Agricultural researchers have long used small-plot trials to test a myriad of practices, such as selecting the best seeds, fertilizer and crop-control products, and depending […]
The future of housing looks nothing like today’s
“After a century, Americans are choosing to live together–transforming not just the buildings we live in, but the way we live in them… …Over the […]
EU CO2 emissions ‘significantly decreased’ in 2018
“The European Union’s statistical office estimates CO2 emissions in EU countries “significantly decreased” in 2018 compared to 2017. Eurostat estimates CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion […]
Swiss & Italian Researchers 3D Print Microdevices for Clean Water
“The authors have created a 3D printed microrobotic prototype capable of finding pollutants and kill bacteria. Ranging from micrometers to millimeters, the small machines can […]
GM Cruise Autonomous Vehicle Unit Gets $1.15B Investment
“A group of institutional investors is sinking $1.15 billion into GM Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle unit of General Motors. Cruise announced the investment from […]
Scientists Say They Have Created An Environmentally Friendly Alternative To Styrofoam
“From an environmental perspective, styrofoam is a disaster. It is one of those products that imposes huge costs on society, costs that are borne by […]
Nation’s First ‘Hempwood’ Factory Could Be Sustainable Lifesaver for Endangered Oak Trees in the US
“A new facility in Kentucky has become the nation’s first factory to begin cultivating “wood” out of hemp. In addition to being 20% tougher than […]
Major Companies Plan to Track Sea Food and Clothing Using Blockchain
“Blockchain has found a tremendous use case in supply chain management. A Forbes post published May 15, 2019, revealed that Bumble Bee Foods plans to use blockchain for […]
Exploring the Viability of Crypto Mining in the Renewable Energy Future
“With the world going green, we explore the high cost of crypto mining and if it is sustainable in the long-term. It is no secret […]
5 Breakthroughs Coming Soon in Augmented and Virtual Reality
“Convergence is accelerating disruption… everywhere! Exponential technologiesare colliding into each other, reinventing products, services, and industries. In this third installment of my Convergence Catalyzer series, I’ll […]
Radical new desalination technique may disrupt the water industry
“A Columbia Engineering team led by Ngai Yin Yip, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, reports that they have developed a radically new desalination […]
Move over, silicon switches: There’s a new way to compute
“Logic and memory devices, such as the hard drives in computers, now use nanomagnetic mechanisms to store and manipulate information. Unlike silicon transistors, which have […]