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 | Frictionless Wind Turbines The problem with wind turbines? Often, it's just not windy enough to get them turning. It's not really the lack of wind that is the problem, but the friction in the turbines themselves. Chinese scientists may have cracked this problem with the first "magnetic levitation" (or MagLev) wind turbines, w ... Read More About This Invention |
| The Super-Powered Electric Car Electric cars: they're rather slow, aren't they? They whir a bit and then run out of juice on the motorway? Not Tesla Motors' first car. This will be a clutchless, Lotus-inspired roadster capable of going from 0 to 60mph in just four seconds, with a top speed of 130mph. That's electricity with attit ... Read More About This Invention www.teslamotors.com |  |
 | The Watercone The Watercone® is a solar powered water desalinator that takes salt or brackish water and generates freshwater. It is simple to use, lightweight and mobile. The technology is simple in design and use and is described by simple pictograms. With max. 1,6 liters a day the Watercone® is an ideal devic ... Read More About This Invention www.watercone.com |
| The Eco Kettle It is estimated that, on average, we boil twice the volume of water needed every time we use our kettles. With a 3kW kettle that's the same as wasting the energy of around 50 light bulbs. And standard kettles are often highly inefficient - a stove-top kettle, for instance, requires energy to heat th ... Read More About This Invention www.ecokettle.com |  |
 | Solar-Powered LEDs Picture a world in which the kids have to stop reading because the sun has set. Or where you have to burn dangerous, dirty and expensive kerosene to see what you're doing. The Indian government hopes to remedy this sutuation, which affects 112,000 rural villages across the country, over the next dec ... Read More About This Invention www.treehugger.com |
| The Stapler Free Stapler Believe it or not, the ingenious new Staple Free Stapler ($8) uses absolutely no staples at all. Just place your collection of papers that need to be stapled together (up to 5 pages) into the Staple Free Stapler, push down and it cuts a little flap in the corner, folds the flap back and tucks it int ... Read More About This Invention www.thegreenhead.com |  |
 | Ice Energy Air conditioning can be a huge drain on electricity supplies. Enter Ice Energy's Ice Bear, which integrates with a standard AC unit. The water in the Ice Bear is frozen overnight when temperatures are lower and electricity, in many countries, is cheaper, and the ice then cools the AC unit's refridge ... Read More About This Invention www.ice-energy.com |
| Green Roofs Cities may be losing their green spaces to development, but all is not lost. Look up to the roofs of buildings, especially office blocks, and there, where once there was dead space, you could now find a "sky garden" (Barclays' HQ in Canary Wharf, London, has one). They could be used as community spa ... Read More About This Invention www.greenroofs.com |  |
 | Green Skateboard skateboard with soy, hemp and bamboo ... Read More About This Invention |
| Bamboo Bikes Craig Calfee got the idea for his bamboo bikes several years ago while on a trip to Africa. He noticed that there was a plethora of bamboo combined with a lack of transportation for the poor, so bamboo bicycles seemed a perfect fit. Craig realized that he could potentially teach people how to build ... Read More About This Invention www.calfeedesign.com |  |