Archive for July 21st, 2009

SunCatcher Power System Ready For Commercial Production

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar worked jointly and have come out with their precious device called SunCatchers(TM). They exhibited their four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). SunCatchers are the new dishes that will be utilized on commercial-scale by 2010. Chuck Andraka, [...]

The Airplot Big Lunch

The Airplot hosted a very special picnic on Sunday as part of the Big Lunch, which saw a staggering 2 million people sit down for Sunday dinner with their local communities to indulge in locally grown food.
Dozens of local residents came down to the plot to share food, and once again show that this [...]

Farmers call for more funding to ‘make the most of the countryside’

Farmers and landowners are demanding more money to maintain the traditional countryside amid growing environmental demands from government.

Dragonfly could be greatest migrator

Dragonflies are flying thousands of miles from India to Africa in the longest migration of any insect according to a new study.

Bottom 1000 least polluting postcodes in Britain

Middle class neighbourhoods are the worst polluters according to the first ever breakdown of Britain’s carbon footprint.

Fruit and veg from Downing Street on sale

It seems Downing Street Originals products may be on the way.

Glaciers and ice bridges: images from the Greenland ice sheet

The Arctic Sunrise is still in Greenland where the crew (including leading climate scientists and other ice experts) have been monitoring the ongoing disintegration of the Petermann glacier.
Photographer Nick Cobbing is on board, and we’ve all been oohing and aahing over his stunning images as they come in to the office. They’re all the [...]

Biofuel made from power plant CO

Power plants emit carbon dioxide, algae make sugar and oil out of it. It’s time to put the two together

Wired-up bugs give fuel cells extra oomph

The discovery that a wide variety of bacteria can be persuaded to produce conducting, wire-like appendages boosts the potential of biofuel cells

Hot new fuel for nuclear reactors

A fuel pellet that is better at conducting heat than conventional pellets could make nuclear power cheaper and more efficient

 

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