16 year old Makes Bioplastic from Banana Peels & Wins $50,000 Science Award Elif Bilgin, a 16 year old from Turkey, won the 2013 Science in Action Award at the Google Science Fair for her invention of a bioplastic made from banana peels that could be used to replace petroleum-based plastics. Thomas Edison, who was just age 14 when he began work that led to the invention of the electric light bulb, once said: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” No doubt then, Edison would have approved of 16 year old Elif Bilgin from Turkey – winner of the 2013 Scientific American Science in Action Award, powered by the Google Science Fair. Bilgin won for her project – ‘Going Bananas’ – that uses banana peels in the production of bio-plastic as a replacement for traditional petroleum-based plastic. The award honors a project that can make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge. The goal is for it to be innovative, easy to put into action and reproducible in other communities.
German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs! It's no surprise that the country that has kicked butt at the Solar Decathlon competition (to produce energy positive solar houses) year after year is the home to such a productive energy-efficient village The village’s green initiative first started in 1997 when the village council decided that it should build new industries, keep initiatives local, bring in new revenue, and create no debt. Over the past 14 years, the community has equipped nine new community buildings with solar panels, built four biogas digesters (with a fifth in construction now) and installed seven windmills with two more on the way.. In the village itself, 190 private households have solar panels while the district also benefits from three small hydro power plants, ecological flood control, and a natural waste water system. Mayor Zengerle has gone to Romania, Berlin and the Black Sea Region to speak about how these places can transform their communities and make money in the process. Source: Inhabitat Related:
Future looks bright for carbon nanotube solar cells (June 18 Light from the sun creates charges in an ultrathinfilm of carbon nanotubes (blue), which are extracted by fullerene C60 (brown) in this schematic of the groundbreaking proof-of-concept solar cell with greater than 1 percent efficiency. In an approach that could challenge silicon as the predominant photovoltaic cell material, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have developed an inexpensive solar cell that exploits carbon nanotubes to absorb and convert energy from the sun. Michael Arnold The advance could lead to solar panels just as efficient, but much less expensive to manufacture, than current panels. The proof-of-concept carbon nanotube solar cell can convert nearly 75 percent of the light it absorbs into electricity, says Michael Arnold, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison and a pioneer in developing carbon nanotube-based materials for solar energy applications. The next step in boosting that efficiency already is underway.
Nikola Tesla The Secret Movie - Unlimited Free Energy Forever Encyclopedia Britannica lists Nikola Tesla as one of the top ten most fascinating people in history. Nikola Tesla was an electrical engineer who changed the world with the invention of the AC (alternating current) induction motor, making the universal transmission and distribution of electricity possible. So why is he virtually unknown to the general public? Today we pay for electricity as Tesla's free energy devices were destroyed by J.P. “Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.” “My brain is only a receiver. The Missing Secrets Of Nikola Tesla “Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. Related Posts
New Zealand Student Designs Doorless Refrigerator That Saves Energy and Reduces Food Spoilage Ben de la Roche, an industrial design student at Massey University in New Zealand, has designed a doorless refrigeration wall, called Impress, that prevents food waste and saves energy. De la Roche’s design is a finalist in the 2012 Electrolux Design Lab competition. Impress, Electrolux says, “completely transforms the way we refrigerate.” Rather than hide refrigerated food and drinks in a closed box, the appliance places items out in the open. It saves energy by only applying refrigeration when a food item is present. Impress consists of an assembly of separate elongated cooling units that de la Roche calls “pins.” His refrigerator is one of ten home appliance concepts chosen by Electrolux out of 1,200 entrants and will be on exhibit at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Italy, on Oct. 25. + Electrolux Design Lab competition + Massey University Photos courtesy of Electrolux and Massey University
Cloudbuster & Orgone Generator: How to disperse Chemtrails HHG Construction If you want to clear out the unpleasant entities from your immediate environment, expel parasitic/predatory ET’s from your auric field, neutralize the energetic effects of chemtrails, etc., just make one or more of these and put it on the ground or in your house, according to your intuitive promptings. My partner, Carol, and I have found ! There are plenty of people who are nice, but these aren’t generally smart. You might think I’m digressing, but the Y factor is very important when working with orgone. Most people will be content to have a HHG in the home to keep the energy clean and healthy there. If you can dowse with a pendulum or rods, etc., that may be the best way to find the right spot to put a HHG. If your house is built on one of these leyline junctions, though, lucky you! If there are places in your area at which evil has been done on a large scale, put an HHG there, too, to correct the imbalance. A couple of cups of aluminum particles (OR a pint of BB’s).
Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet In an effort to buck the expensive rates of unreliable corporate telecom companies, a community in Athens, Greece, has created its own private Internet. Built from a network of wireless rooftop antennas, the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) now has more than 1,000 members. Data moves “through” the AWMN mesh up to 30 times faster than it does on the telecom-provided Internet. According to Mother Jones, this off-the-grid community has become so popular in Athens and on nearby islands that it has developed its own Craigslist-esque classifieds service as well as blogs and an internal search engine. "It's like a whole other Web," AWMN user Joseph Bonicioli told the magazine. The AWMN began in 2002 in response to the poor Internet service provided by traditional telecommunications companies in Athens. As the Internet has become a ubiquitous presence in day-to-day life, governments around the world have sought to control it. Photo by Martin Fisch/Flickr
Human waste power plant goes online in the UK The new biogas plant, sited next to the Didcot sewage works in Oxfordshire, has been officially opened by Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne Image Gallery (3 images) The biomethane project that turns human waste into green gas that we featured in May has now gone live. The new biogas plant – sited next to the Didcot sewage works in Oxfordshire – has been officially opened by Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne, who said: "It's not every day that a Secretary of State can announce that, for the first time ever in the UK, people can cook and heat their homes with gas generated from sewage. Hoped to be the first of many such installations, the process starts when one of Thames Water's 14 million customers flushes the loo. The end result of this process is biogas, which is further cleaned up before being fed into the gas grid. The average person is said to produce about 30kg/66lbs (dry weight) of sludge every year. About the Author Post a CommentRelated Articles
Jobs, Robots, Capitalism, Inequality, And You Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the “widening gap between rich and poor” is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are part-time and/or low-paid will soon reverse. Or maybe the idea that all the homeless need are old laptops and a few JavaScript textbooks is not unlike the claim that new technologies automatically create new jobs for everyone. This has not been a great decade for the average American. In the early 2000s, in both Britain and America growth and wages peeled apart. Another theory is far more disconcerting: it’s the suggestion that “the economic progress of the past 250 years may have been a unique period in human history.” At some point in the late sixties or early seventies, this great acceleration began to taper off … The rate at which life is improving here, on the frontier of human well-being, has slowed. Which neatly echoes Peter Thiel’s essay “The End of the Future”: And it’s not just truck drivers and factory workers.