3D printed houses in just 48 hours
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Posted on June 15, 2020
The construction of 3D printed houses has been trying to take off for several years, but is still in an initial stage. However, a company in the Czech Republic, Prvok od Burinky, has presented an ecological, solid and stylish house that can be built in up to 48 hours, around seven times faster and costing half as much as a brick house. With three rooms and a living area of 43 square meters, the house will be built layer by layer using a reused robot arm from the automotive industry…
Read MoreHydrogen trains getting ready in Germany to combat pollution
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Posted on June 12, 2020
During a year and a half, two passenger locomotives with a battery that transforms hydrogen and oxygen into electricity have been tested successfully…
Read MorePlanting 1 billion trees with a drone in Canada... and beyond
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Posted on June 8, 2020
Plants are essential to reduce pollution and curb global warming, as they absorb carbon. To plant a tree, we usually use sacks and shovels. However, technology allows now to do it 10 times faster and 20% cheaper. How? Using drones! A Canadian startup is reforesting a forest in Toronto with 40,000 pine and fir trees after a fire…
Read MoreA Norwegian village with sunlight thanks to three huge mirrors
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Posted on May 28, 2020
Did you know that vitamin D keeps depression away and regulate circadian sleep cycles? The biggest natural resource of such vitamin is natural lighting. However, there are places on our planet where people receive very few hours of sunlight, especially in certain seasons. In a remote Norwegian town called Rjukan, people live without light for six months a year! The reason, the shadow of the mountains surrounding their deep valley do not let the sun light the streets…
Read MoreUsing artificial intelligence to save coral reefs
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Posted on May 13, 2020
CORaiL, an artificial intelligence-based solution to monitor, classify and analyse the resistance of coral reefs is currently being developed by Intel, Accenture and the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation. Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world, with more than 800 coral species providing habitat and refuge for approximately 25% of the world's marine life…
Read MoreA new edible and biodegradable packaging to avoid the use of plastic in the supermarket
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Posted on March 16, 2020
This sustainable container, developed over two years by The Catalan Plastic Center of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain) and the researcher Farayde Fakhouri, is an alternative to plastics and comes from plant sources formed by natural compounds that offer different properties that, combined with other materials, allow the interaction of food with the atmosphere to be modified, protecting the food and extending its useful life. With a budget of 10 million euros financed between ACCI…
Read MoreIt is now possible to produce energy from nothing!
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Posted on February 26, 2020
Can you imagine a device that produces electricity from nothing, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Electrical engineer Jun Yao and microbiologist Derek Lovley, both of the University of Massachusets Amherst (USA), have created a device called 'Air-gen' or air-powered generator that uses a natural protein to generate electricity from just the humidity of the air. This air generator connects electrodes to the protein nanowires (just 7 microns thick, one-tenth of a human hair), generating electric c…
Read MoreT-shirts made from Wood and Algae
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Posted on November 28, 2019
The clothes industry is the second most contaminating only behind oil. Although some companies are trying to reduce their waste, great advances have not been achieved. Now, a little startup located in London has developed a system to make t-shirts that are completely recycled. They don't use the usual tissues, they have created a new one. The T-shirts are made of wood pulp and algae and at the end of their life, they can be composted or buried it…
Read MoreAn oasis in the middle a desert
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Posted on October 17, 2019
Sometimes personal initiatives are more successful than government programs. In the mountainous northern regions of India, Anand Dhawaj Negi managed to create an oasis where there was nothing before. When he retired from his job he was able to devote himself to his passion. The Department of Agriculture of India had declared an area of more than 1 million acres as uncultivable. But our protagonist decided to try on his own to change this situation…
Read MoreA bottle saved lives
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Posted on September 23, 2019
Sometimes old resources have unexpected results. Curtis Whitson and his family were rescued because he sent a message in a bottle. They had decided to go camping for a few days in June. He knew a beautiful area of the Arroyo Seco River in California and his girlfriend and his son were interested in knowing the region. The first day, they started down the river and the experience was very exciting…
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