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The Return of Sailing Ships
With global production and distribution of goods a reality of 21st Century life, cargo ships are ubiquitous. They bring goods to consumers all over the world, and more and more ships are transporting...
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New Airships Taking Flight
Last month, the US Army carried out the first flight test of its Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV), a new generation of airship that uses motors as well as aerodynamic lift from the...
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31-Foot Boat Traverses Northwest Passage
With the polar icecap shrinking so dramatically this year, the opportunity for ships to go through the Northwest passage between the Atlantic and Pacific has been so great this year that even a small...
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Improvements in Aerogels
Aerogels are materials with amazingly good insulating properties. Images of a blowtorch heating the underside of a piece of aerogel with an unharmed ice cube or a pack of matches on top are familiar...
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Using Electricity to Fight Fires
Fire fighting could take on an entirely new character with the rediscovery of a principle first noticed more than 200 years ago: electricity can stop flames. Scientists do not yet fully understand how...
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Wind Turbine Produces Both Electricity and Water
While we usually look at wind turbines chiefly as a cleaner, better source of electricity. But in many parts of the world, electricity is only one of several needs faced by much of the population. In...
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Super, Super Efficient Windows
In conventional construction, the windows of a building are usually the weakest part of the thermal envelope. Well insulated walls can be built with a number of different kinds of construction and a...
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SciShow: Lab Grown Meat
At present, the only option for those who believe that killing animals to eat them is wrong is to only eat vegetables. And those who like eating meat but are concerned about the environmental...
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Low-Cost Battery Developments Could Provide Cheap Power Storage
A researcher at USC has developed a new method for inexpensive batteries that could be used for renewable power storage. These batteries use the oxidization of iron exposed to air (also known as rust)...
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Cheaper, Cleaner Diesel Emissions
The catalytic converters that reduce nitrogen oxides and other harmful emissions help keep the air clean, but rely on rare and expensive minerals such as platinum and palladium, which increases the...
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Green Roofs for Buses
Green roofs are a familiar concept among high-performance building designers and other EcoGeeks, but what about a mobile green roof moving through a city? A project called Bus Roots takes the idea of...
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Hotels Not Getting Greener (Even the Green Ones)
A recent article in Metropolis magazine notes that, in spite of the trends toward greener construction in both the construction and hospitality industries, recently built hotels tend to be worse, in...
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Sweden Wants to Import More Trash
Sweden is a country with an especially good national recycling program and broad public participation. It is so good that only 4 percent of household waste goes into landfills. Sweden also has a lot...
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Japan Drops Nukes then Reverses Policy
A few days ago, the Japanese government announced its plans to begin to phase out nuclear power with the country aiming to end all nuclear power by 2040. But less than a week later, the announced...
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Progress in Biofuels Production
We've been getting an onslaught of press releases from a number of companies all promoting their biofuel production facilities and the deals they are making to provide biofuels to various industries...
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Downturns in Pure Electric Vehicles
There have been a couple of signs recently that consumers may not be quite ready yet for pure electric vehicles (EVs), or at least that manufacturers still have some work ahead of them to be able to...
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US Military Embracing Green Energy
The US military is one of the biggest users of renewable energy, and the Pentagon is continuing to investment in a variety of renewable power systems. Eleven former 3- and 4-star generals have made a...
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German Cars Are the Next Wave of EVs
German carmakers are catching up to what other manufacturers are doing, and seem to be coming out with several models incorporating electric drive. According to reports from the Paris Auto Show, an...
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Flaws in the "Organic Food" Study
Last month there was a great deal of media attention paid to a study about organic food (Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives?: A Systematic Review), which was widely...
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Audi's Carbon Neutral E-Gas
Automakers have a strong interest in understanding and improving the fuel market. After all, without a stable fuel infrastructure in place, their products (the cars they build) are nothing more than...
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