Latest Stories in Clean Technology
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Long Beach to get wireless chargers for their new electric buses
Inductive charging is coming to public transportation in Long Beach, California, with the addition of two wireless charging stations for its electric buses.
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Technology can turn waste heat into electricity at temperatures as low as 86 degrees
We've seen heat-to-electricity technologies that work with high temperatures, but this new breakthrough could allow waste heat to be harnessed from many more sources.
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LEDs in greenhouses deliver same yield as grow lights, using just 25% of the energy
Using LED lighting instead of traditional high pressure sodium lights to grow tomatoes in greenhouses during the winter could cut costs and boost local food production.
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The green 3D printing materials we’ve been waiting for
Although the technology has quickly become quite sophisticated, the materials used in 3D printers have been slow to catch up... Until now.
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Want healthier tomatoes? Grow ‘em with LEDs
Recent research shows that growing tomatoes indoors with LEDs produces more nutrient-rich fruit than when growing with fluorescent lights.
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London is building a power plant that burns waste fat from sewers
The discarded fat that can clog the sewer system will now be used as a renewable energy source.
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Researchers discover new way to harvest electricity from plants
Scientists at University of Georgia have developed a way to harvest energy from photosynthesis before the plant uses it.
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Google's new timelapse project shows 30 years of disappearing rainforest in just seconds
Using Landsat imagery taken from as early as 1984, Google Earth's animated GIFs are potent proof of how quickly our world changes.
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Scientists are putting drones to work studying the natural world
The topic of unmanned drones usualy comes up in a military context, but some scientists are embracing the technology to further our understanding of the natural world.
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Underwater robot looks for endangered sturgeon fish
A new underwater glider is giving scientists a better understanding of the migrating habits of Atlantic sturgeon.
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Mysterious cause of LED 'droop' identified, could lead to more efficient LED lights
If you increase the electrical current sent to a LED past a certain point, the amount of light produced will go down rather than up. This property of LEDs is called 'droop', and until recently scientists and engineers didn't know why it happened.
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Smartphone satellites send back pictures from orbit
Three small smartphone-based satellites recently orbitted the earth taking pictures and volunteer radio operators helped to piece together the images.
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10 Most Popular Tech Stories from April
The most popular stories in technology from the last month. Catch up quick!
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Solar-powered seed sowing machines spread flowers when air pollution rises
The structures would be equipped with sensors that detect when air pollution increases and react by releasing flower seeds as a way to call attention to the problem in a beautiful way.
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World's largest underwater observatory will enable real-time interactive ocean study
A networked infrastructure of sensors and fiber optic cables in the northeast Pacific Ocean will bring the internet to the ocean, and the ocean to the internet.
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Helical Robotics debuts wireless turbine-climbing robots
This little robot can shimmy up a wind turbine and even along the blades themselves.
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Facebook launches live data center efficiency dashboard
You can now view the energy and water efficiency performance of the company's North Carolina and Oregon data centers in real-time.
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Solar cooling panel could provide AC without electricity by sending heat to outer space
A unique solar panel has been designed at Stanford that cools buildings by reflecting sunlight and radiating thermal energy out into space.
