This is so cool! Learned new words such as #SewerFat and #Fatberg! Good effort #20c!
via springwise:
Stay Green Oil has already offered those with waste oil the opportunity to re-use it, rather than throwing it away. In the UK, discarded oil and fat is causing problems in the capital’s sewer systems, and now 2OC aims to tackle the problem with the world’s largest fat-powered renewable electricity plant. READ MORE…
cees1: Scientists in the Netherlands have designed a windmill without rotating blades. EWICON, an acronym for electrostatic wind energy converter, uses particle movement to generate energy. Wind moves electrically charged water droplets across a bipolar field in the steel structure, which creates a current that can be transmitted to a grid.
Read more: http://ow.ly/k9v4s
Oil orgy.. hehe
(via greenfighter)
Death rate per watts, Nuclear, Oil, Coal. Classic chart exposes cognitive dissonance, and persistent self-denial…
Do you have an opinion about nuclear power? About the relative safety of one form of power over another? How did you come to this opinion?
Here are the stats.For every person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die due to coal, adjusted for the same amount of power produced.
Vivid is not the same as true. It’s far easier to amplify sudden and horrible outcomes than it is to talk about the slow, grinding reality of day to day strife. That’s just human nature. Not included in this chart are deaths due to global political instability involving oil fields, deaths from coastal flooding and deaths due to environmental impacts yet unmeasured, all of which skew it even more if you think about it.
This chart unsettles a lot of people, because there must be something wrong with it. Further proof of how easy it is to fear the unknown and accept what we’ve got.
Via Seth Godin
Denmark is to reach its 2020 solar energy generation target of 200 megawatt (MW) capacity by the end of 2012, eight years ahead of schedule, according to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
via consciousnews
Eco Tips:
Tell your freezer to find a cool spot to park its cool parts. e.g. your basement
Power adaptor needs a time out when not in use
(via axelpfaender)
Light slats on your buildings save energy.
This is cool! It’s like Mythbusters X Sustainability X Magnifying Globe. Awesome!
Spherical Solar Engery - Harvests Moonlight!
Solar energy designers at Rawlemon have created a spherical, sun-tracking glass globe that is able to concentrate sunlight (and moonlight) up to 10, 000 times.
