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Inventions

New System Promises Better Traffic and Cleaner Skies

September 22, 2011

Combine Los Angeles’ geography, climate, car culture, and enormous population and you get the perfect recipe for smog. Despite being a national leader in green initiatives and standards, our dependence on cars is one of the main factors that keep Southern Californian skies polluted. That’s why a team of computer scientists, urban planners, and atmospheric [...]

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The Electree, Not Your Typical Bonsai Tree…

September 20, 2011

New “green” inventions are sprouting up everywhere. Energy efficient light bulbs preserve bulb life, better insulation leads to lower energy bills, and solar panels use renewable resources to harness energy. One of the most unique and innovative new products is a design by Vivian Muller, a French designer. She created the Electree, a solar panel [...]

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Tax Initiative to Turn Old Buildings “Green”

September 20, 2011

With more and more people becoming increasingly concerned about climate change and energy efficiency, companies worldwide are brainstorming ideas for “greener” methods of doing just about everything. As reported by the New York Times, a net of businesses that include Lockheed Martin, Barclays Bank, Energi, and Hannover Re, will invest nearly $650 million over the [...]

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New Technology Helps Cell Phones and Solar Panels Merge

September 20, 2011

A UCLA professor of materials science and engineering is researching a new technology that could make cell phone display screens act as solar panels. As reported in the Daily Bruin, energy wasted in generating the power for a cell phone’s backlight can instead be recycled. Sunlight can also be captured and used, giving a longer [...]

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Garden Hose Venture To Decrease Global Warming

September 13, 2011

Intellectual Ventures, a self-proclaimed invention company in Bellevue, Washington, has proposed an unconventional idea to deal with global warming in this modern age.  While most environmentalists are trying to convince millions of people to change their behavior in order to stop global warming, the company Intellectual Ventures has taken a different route.  The task as [...]

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Using Panda Waste To Make Biofuel

August 30, 2011

Much funding and research has been dedicated to developing sources of biofuels recently in order to decrease dependence on fossil fuels.  Biofuels are currently being produced from corn and other edible plants.  Recent reports from the National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Denver have suggested that microbes in the feces of [...]

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See-Through, Spray-On Solar Window Technology Developed

August 30, 2011

Technology keeps getting smaller and smaller.  In fact, now it is even virtually invisible.  New Energy Technologies Inc. is currently developing a solar technology that sprays directly onto glass windows.  Each solar cell measures less than one quarter of the size of a grain of rice, which means that the glass is still transparent.  Before this [...]

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