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Hybrid 3D Printing and Its Applications in Wind Energy

Article - 3 Jan 2019

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is the production process in which objects are built up from the bottom, layer by layer. This can be combined with conventional or subtractive...

How Much Plastic Goes into the Ocean Each Year?

Article - 14 Dec 2018

The war on plastic has been growing in strength over the past few years. The full effects of plastic in the ocean are filtering into the public consciousness and have resulted in environmental...

Creating Power from Rain Using Solar Panels

Article - 16 May 2018

Solar power is becoming increasingly popular as a clean and renewable source of power generation all over the world. The cost of production of commercial solar panels has dropped by more than half...

Survey Finds U.S. Organizations Need to Think ‘Green’ to Attract Workers

News - 19 Feb 2008

More than 80 percent of U.S. workers polled in a recent National Geographic survey believe it is important to work for a company or organization that makes the environment a top priority. Yet, only 53...

Sugar and Carbon Dioxide Combine to Form Biodegradable Plastics

Article - 16 Jun 2017

Polycarbonates are all around us: in your plastic drinks bottle; the lenses of your glasses; and the scratch-resistant coating on your phones CDs and DVDs. But they are made from crude oil, a finite...

Efficient Circular Recycling System Method To Deal with Rare Element Waste

Article - 16 May 2017

Circular economy is an industrial system that aims to avoid waste through the design of optimised cycles of products, components and materials by keeping them at their highest utility and value; it’s...

Power Shirt - Harvesting Energy from Movement

News - 13 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a "power shirt" able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field,...

Nanotube Film Enhancing the Longevity of Solar Cells

Article - 22 Mar 2017

Researchers claim that thinner and more transparent nanofilms can also be useful, as these transparent structures could allow light to pass through.

ALBIASA Group Promotes Use of Solar Energy with 300 Million Euro Plan

News - 11 Feb 2008

The Basque ALBIASA group has development plans to invest 300 million euros up to 2010 aimed at promoting various photoelectric parks, a thermosolar plant and premises for the manufacture of...

World's First Zero-Carbon, Zero-Waste City

News - 10 Feb 2008

Abu Dhabi today broke ground on Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car- free city. The global milestone event was marked by the laying of a virtual cornerstone by His Highness...