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more about #energy more comments → Bigdamnhero: After reading this post, and a little reflection, I've decided how I want to go out: I want somebody to figure out how to hook up a battery charger t... more » The Curse of Millhaven: Nobody would ever mind the stench of human flesh being piped along their baseboards for heat. more » salthegeek: Ok, this is a horror movie plot .... more » Gann: This is slightly less disturbing that Resomation: [www.resomation.com] A process where they use heat, pressure, and lye to render your corpse into l... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: Wait a sec... so there really is a lot of power in the Energizer bunny? more » Anekanta - Go Play!: We should reclaim the water while we're at it; then we can use it to top up our stilsuits. more » LittleDragon: Does any one know what happened to CH's character after he screamed about it being people? Or is it just assumed that the state "dealt" with him? more » cylon_conspiracy: Looks like our future health care policy is going to help our future environmental policy. more » Necrotoxin: So Hitler was just trying to help the Germans with their energy problems. more » Dirk Anger: This Hastings? [www.goear.com]!-black-emperor more » Roklimber: I couldn't locate it, but a recent article in the Copenhagen Post (a danish newspaper in English) mentioned that danish crematoriums (crematoria?) wil... more » ManchuCandidate: I guess there is an upside to the obesity epidemic. more » Klebert L. Hall: Lets hope it turns out well. Most of these "forward-thinking" government architectural projects wind up being objects of contempt twenty years down t... more » Chuck: It may be "architecture that's quickly realized and doesn't break the bank", but if it's in downtown Dallas, the land it's on certainly will do the ba... more » sjct: You'd have to be a moutain goat to seed, weed and harvest those slopes! This design is beyond ridiculous. more » -
#alternativeenergy
Crematorium Plans to Use Burning Bodies to Generate Energy
While the city of Stockholm is burning bunnies to power its homes, the human cremation process could soon provide an alternative energy of its own. A UK crematorium is looking into a new technology to recapture energy from human cremation. More » -
#architecture
Dallas' Eco-Community Could Be the Future of Urban Housing
In 2011, construction will begin on Forwarding Dallas, a hilltop-inspired community that combines renewable energy and rooftop greenery with practical and cost-effective design. Could we be looking at the model for sustainable urban architecture? More » -
#madscience
A Black Hole Engine That Could Power Spaceships
Artificially generated black holes could provide us with the power to make inter-solar travel a possibility. New research shows how strapping a black hole to your starship might just give you the juice to get to Alpha Centauri.
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#alternativeenergy
Sweden's Homes Heated with the Power of Bunny Blood
We've seen lamps that run on human blood and examined robots that eat corpses for fuel. Sweden is already using flesh-based biofuel, but it's not humans they're using to heat their homes; it's rabbits. More » -
#madchemistry
Scientists Create Fuel "More Dense Than The Core of the Sun"
It could be the perfect nuclear fuel. It generates energy via laser-enabled fusion. It has no radioactive byproducts. Has a group of Swedish researchers found the ultimate form of renewable energy for the 21st century? More » -
#alternativeenergy
Solve the Energy Crisis with Comics
According to a 2006 report from MIT, enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are one of the most unfairly overlooked form of alternative energy in the United States. They're far cheaper than clean coal, indigenous, highly sustainable, and produce just about zero carbon dioxide; in fact, EGS have virtually no emissions. For the laypeople who can't yet grasp the promise of this new technology — especially those who might happen to have a few hundred million dollars up their sleeves for funding science projects — Molika Ashford of Popular Science explains it all with a piece of visual journalism. More » -
#sustainabledesign
"Human Pump" Uses Dancing to Power a Waterfall System
In the future, drought-ridden regions could have their thirst quenched when people take daily walks and children play. Gunwook Nam’s Human Pump uses the kinetic energy that people create when they move to bring water to areas that have underground sources, but lack the power to easily bring that water to the surface. With it, Nam hopes to build a future where citizens of formerly arid regions bring waterfalls to life with their feet. More » -
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#rant
Is Peak Oil a Lie?
At the Cleantech Forum this week in Washington, DC, prominent futurist Peter "Long Boom" Schwartz argued before a packed room of investors that peak oil is wrong. He claimed that the Earth would not be running out of oil any time soon, and that people who use the idea of peak oil to motivate the production of alternative energy are going to wind up screwing the Earth over in the end. More » -
#megaindustry
A Coal-Burning Power Plant, Before and After
Though the EU has been clamoring to reduce carbon emissions, Germany is in the process of building 26 new coal-burning power plants. Here you can see a gigantic excavator machine mining brown coal near the Boxberg power plant yesterday. Consider this a "before" picture. Want to see what happens after the excavation? More » -
#nukepower
The Future Is Coming Up Nukes
Nuclear power is the other alternative energy - cleaner than biomass, and less retarded than ethanol. Sure there's that pesky problem of nuclear waste, but that's not stopping a union of European, Asian, and United States task forces from working on the next generation of nuclear power plants, that will look something like this on the inside (this is a Trigia research nuke power reactor, designed by Freeman Dyson). And here's the cool part. Many new, generation IV nuclear reactors will be virtually waste-free. Want to see some of the prototype generation IV nuke power plants? More »
