EH Line's aluminum monocoque Street Racer aims to become the Ferrari of e-bikes
by: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, 2012-03-22 07:09:56 UTC
EH Line calls its top-of-the-line Street Racer the "Ferrari" of its electric bike range. The 250 kw e-bike has a beautiful aluminum monocoque chassis and Bionx power sensing technology which offers eight levels of rider support - from an additional 300% of the muscle power the rider puts in, through to recharging the battery and even simulating gradients during flat road training. It also has Ferrari-class pricing which begins at EUR6,990 (US$9,250) ... and if you're in any doubt as to how good an aluminum monocoque can look painted in different ways, see the gallery...
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DesignNobis Turns Recycled Scraps Into a Stackable Eco-Bench
by: Inhabitat , 2012-03-22 15:40:48 UTC
Design Nobis‘ Ecobench is a cool, new seating option that has been produced from recycled and recyclable materials. Designed to be easily dismantled for quick portability or stacked simply in small storage spaces, the simple, low-impact bench shows respect for nature while giving a nod to modern design.
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Water savings often hampered at national level (News)
by: Euractive, 2012-03-22 06:49:33 UTC
Efforts to improve water efficiency and avert scarcity are hampered by illegal wells, lack of metering, and in some cases national opposition to tougher European Union standards, analyses of water allocation in agriculture show.
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With free adapter kit, Legos can mate with Tinker Toys, Zoob
by: Crave Green tech, 2012-03-21 23:39:14 UTC
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F.A.T. Lab, Sy-Lab)
Legos are cool. Tinker Toys are cool. Zoob is cool. But you know what's really cool? Building a hybrid gizmo out of all of the above (and other construction toys as well).
That's possible now--without tape, glue, chewing gum, or earwax--using the Free Universal Construction Kit, a set of adapters that let you snap together parts from 10 popular building toys. Brought to you by the F.A.T. (Free Art and Technology) Lab and Sy-Lab, the kit can be downloaded for free as a collection of models in STL format that can be printed with 3D printers such as the Makerbot.
Aside from the simple, flat-out coolness of letting you create mashups with your different toys, the kit manifests certain highfalutin philosophical ideas about proprietary systems, mass culture, and the DIY mind-set. As F.A.T. puts it:
By allowing any piece to join to any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems--enabling radically hybrid constructive play, the creation of previously impossible designs, and... [Read more]
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5 Fun Faucets That Help You Save Water (Photos)
by: TreeHugger Design, 2012-03-22 10:15:13 UTC
By displaying the water consumption either digitally or emotionally, these 5 faucets help you save water.
Droog's Iconic 85 Lamps Chandelier Now Comes In LED Green
by: TreeHugger Design, 2012-03-21 12:51:00 UTC
The iconic fixture has been updated with the latest lighting technologies
The Benefits of Life Cycle Analysis
by: Environmental Leader, 2012-03-21 13:49:32 UTC
Assessing sustainability is a pursuit rife with complexity and subjectivity. One tool that I have seen that is useful in navigating this pursuit is Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) – a cradle-to-grave approach for assessing the environmental impacts of our business activities on a macro level. At my company, we employ life cycle thinking, and have [...]
Notre Dame researchers describe new method to clean nuclear waste
by: Ecofriend, 2012-03-22 06:17:05 UTC
Pratima Kalra:
It has always been a legitimate concern of people world over to manage the storage of nuclear waste and prevent it from leaching. Just recently, researchers at the University of Norte Dame, released a paper on Norte Dame Thorium Borate-1 (NDTB), a crystalline compound that can be manipulated to absorb radioactive ions from nuclear waste. Read after the break to find out more.
New paper by Notre Dame researchers describes method for cleaning up nuclear waste
The working of the compound is simple. It will capture radioactive ions that can then be exchanged for a higher charged species, hence recycling the material. The lead to this mechanism lies in the framework of the NDTB-1. Every single crystal of the compound is framed with channels and cages and billions of tiny pores that allow the exchange of anions with contaminants from the environment such as chromate.
When the research team experimented, they successfully removed about 96 percent of radionuclide technetium 99Tc from nuclear waste.
In fact, if you go by certain statistics, you will get greater clarity about how useful this compound could prove. Let’s start with the fact that there are approximately 436 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 countries. You can well imagine the amount of nuclear waste that is generated. Some statistics show that 305 metric tons of 99Tc were generated between the time period from 1943 to 2010. Its safe storage has been a botheration and the application of NDTB-1 can surely make a difference.
Via: Newsinfo
High-power ultrasound wipes pathogens from spinach for bagged salads
by: Ecofriend, 2012-03-22 06:25:29 UTC
Abdul Vahid V:
Ensuring cleanliness of spinach leaves and other tender greens in bagged salads is crucially important. The lack of sanitation of green leaves has led to several mishaps including the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in August 2006 in America. To deal with the matter, bagged salad makers should depend on more advanced cleaning methods instead of the traditional chlorine based washing.
High-Power Ultrasound Protect Produce from Pathogens.
A leading organic salad firm Earthbound Farm has made a notable advance in this regard using a high power ultrasound technique. Since wash additive is not an organic method, the firm has partnered with the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) to find out the promising method of high power ultrasound to rub the pathogens from the tender leaves for bagged salads.
Under the new technique, as its name indicates, a high powered ultrasound is applied to the green leaves. As a result, the surface of the leaves will be filled with millions of minute bubbles, which will explode at a rate of thousands per second. This process will result high energy shock waves on the leaves that will extricate all pathogens. The leaves will later undergone sanitized washing to remove the remnants of the bubbles.
According to Will Daniels, senior VP of operations and organic integrity at Earthbound, the technology will soon be applied in its factories. As a result, we will get more clean and purified tender leaves in bagged salads. Robert Brackett, director of IFSH is also excited to get the technology tested successfully. Bracket thinks that high powered ultrasound is the best way to dislodge pathogens and contamination from the green leaves.
Via: ScientificAmerican
McDonald's launches pilot program to drop polystyrene coffee cups
by: Greener Design, 2012-03-21 05:14:02 UTC
With the launch of a new pilot aimed at phasing out Styrofoam in favor of paper cups, has McDonald's launched an eco-rivalry that will take the material out of circulation?
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