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  • NYC\'s 2010 Times Square display is pedal-powered

    Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 07:20 in green tech

    Tonight, at the stroke of midnight, all eyes will be on the lights in Times Square, New York City to see the year "2010" light up in all its LED glory. Betcha didn't know that the power for those lights is coming from a completely renewable resource ...

  • Twist faucet makes you work for your water

    Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 11:02 in green tech

    Most of us are used to opening a faucet, and getting an endless stream of clear clean drinking water. But environmentalists tell us that the fresh water supply will become increasingly tight in the future. To make us think about how much water we ar...

  • World\'s first osmotic power plant opens in Norway

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 19:51 in green tech

    Osmotic power, you say? That's exactly what brings the juice in one of Norway's Statkraft plants, which opened yesterday. According to the company, the plant generates electricity thanks to a bank of cells that force osmosis: "The plant generates pow...

  • HOMErgent shelters the needy, with room for Mother Nature

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 11:30 in green tech

    Home is where the heart is. That makes HOMErgent's heart an easily transportable, flat-packed, high-quality shelter designed to house the needy and help the planet. Following a "hexayurt" design and using readily available building materials, HOMErg...

  • Thinking solar for your home? Armageddon it

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 12:05 in green tech

    Four-leaf clovers might bring you luck, but Armageddon Energy's three-leafed SolarClover solar panels promise something more concrete — cheap, green energy. Using standard silicon solar cells embedded in a Teflon medium, each three-panel unit ...

  • T.27 electric car a cross between Toytown tank and golf cart

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 03:07 in green tech

    With a slightly misleading name (honestly, one expects the 27th-gen Terminator to be: a) purty; b) in possession of a modicum of stealth and invisibility) the T.27 is the future of automobility. Well, that's what its designer, Gordon Murray, who was ...