Five mechanical engineering students build a solar-powered e-cycle at Agnel Institute of Technology and Design in Goa in order to reduce vehicular pollution. As of now, the customised photo-voltaic electrical bicycle could cover the distance between Panaji and Vasco on a single run. Initially the
China’s wind energy hardware maker, MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine that will be even bigger than GE’s gigantic Haliade-X. It will be the world’s largest wind turbine to power 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year functional life. The 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall
Recycling has offered humankind wonderful opportunities to use up the discarded material with creative and innovative twists. Following suit, craftsman Cao Shennge made a marvelous Alien Xenomorph King sculpture out of 200 recycled tires, that too in twenty days. Producing tires still has enormous environmental
Mean Metal Motors (MMM) has created the Azani that happens to be India’s first hypercar. It will be able to sprint from zero to 100 kmph, and that too in less than two seconds. The Azani claims a 350 kmph high speed with 700 km
In this world of carbon emissions from fossil fuel consumption, electric vehicles have become a staple of sustainability. Working toward the same goal, a sustainable woodworker, Evie Bee created a wooden electric bike, christened Electraply. Evie was motivated to continue the Electraply project because she
Caltech’s Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) is being developed and it has been claimed that it could power our entire planet. The project would collect solar power in space, transmitting the energy wirelessly to earth through microwaves, which would enable terrestrial power availability unaffected by
Batteries consist of highly toxic chemicals which consequently harm the environment as they contain heavy metals. To end this, Tesla has established an internal ecosystem to recycle scrapped batteries in its Tesla Service Centers. Tesla confirms that 100 percent of its scrapped batteries are recycled
SkyCool Systems is a company started by professors at renowned universities, who have developed a new technology to reduce the need for electric-powered air conditioning to offer green solutions. The company has installed a multi-layered but thin film of hafnium dioxide, silica and other materials
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a steam collector that captures pure water for reuse in power plants. The amount of cooling required by any steam-cycle power plant is determined by its thermal efficiency. However, in the nuclear and fossil fuel power plants the cooling
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling is quite famous and can be used in fiber applications. Recently, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced that it is doubling its PET recycling capacity by setting up a recycled Polyester Staple Fiber (PSF) facility. At present RIL recycles PET bottles at