Road Energy System

Dutch company Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV is creating a new concept Road Energy System® (RES).

RES lays the collection system within concrete . The piping connects to underground storage areas. The water is then transferred into the storage area. On demand, in cold weather, the hot water is used to heat buildings and to keep the road above freezing. After cooling, the water is moved into cold storage to provide air conditioning for summer months. A year round solar/geothermal heating/cooling system for both the road and buildings. The renewable combo greatly reduces electricity requirements and the cooling,heating of the road reduces maintenance requirements.

Solar Energy collected from a 200-yard stretch of road and a small parking lot helps heat a 70-unit four-story apartment building in the northern village of Avenhorn. An industrial park of some 160,000 square feet in the nearby city of Hoorn is kept warm in winter with the help of heat stored during the summer from 36,000 square feet of pavement. The runways of a Dutch air force base in the south supply heat for its hangar.

Printable OLED Breakthrough

GE is printing a light-emitting organic film in a roll-to-roll process.

OLED (organic light emitting diode) film is extremely efficient, easier to mass produce, cheap and can be used in a huge variety of lighting applications.



But OLEDs are not as efficient as LED and compact fluorescent lights, they allow to increase energy use by decreasing the cost of lights, and OLEDs currently don't put off an attractive light.

GE says that they could have OLEDs for sale commercially as light sources by 2010. I

Extracted CO2 from the air and converted it into Fuel

Green Freedom would provide a large-scale production method for carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organic chemicals from air and water. The technology essentially extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and, using a form of electrochemical separation, turns it into fuel. Their goal is to create a fuel that will work with existing vehicle and aircraft infrastructure.

As for the catch, the program would rely on large cooling towers and nuclear power plants from which the CO2 would be gathered. Green Freedom would use existing plants with carbon-capture equipment, so instead of constructing new facilities, the primary environmental impact would be limited to the footprint of the plant alone.

Nokia ‘Remade’ Phone From Recycled Materials

The ‘Remade’ mobile is made from recycled materials like aluminum cans, plastic drink bottles and old car tires. Inside the sleek “nothing new” casing are more environmentally sensitive technologies like printed electronics (which reduce waste and CO2 emissions during manufacturing) and a back lite display which saves energy and increases the life of the battery.

As ‘Remade’ tails on Nokia’s recent launch of the eco-friendlier 3310 Evolve and other recent green moves including a cell phone recycling initiative in New York, we can’t help but keep highlighting the company’s focus on sustainability and look forward to what greener gadgets pop up from them in the future.

Japan Endangers the World with a Space Laser

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to build satellites that will convert the light from the sun in electric energy and then send the energy to earth throw a laser beam.

The dangers

The laser beam will heat the air, this will affect the ecosystem, another problem is that the laser could have a malfunction and hit people or houses, or even planes.

The laser could be used as a weapon, so we must stop Japan or other country's to build such satellites.

Europe's Tallest Tower from a Gas Company

The tower exoskeleton, is dubbed as low energy ‘fur coat’, consist of two layers of glazed glass ‘skin’ with atrium between inner and outer walls. This buffer zone will supply the building with natural ventilation, sunlight for interior lighting and at the same time will act as a thermal insulation by keeping the structure warm during fierce minus 30 degrees Russian winters. The buffer zone concept is similar to what will be used in the world’s biggest building, “Crystal Island,” which is currently being built in Moscow.

Boat powered by Waves

The Suntory Mermaid II is a Wave-Powered Boat, the boat use a system of fins to move around at a very low speed, a maximum speed of five knots. the two fins at the rear of the boat rise and fall, converting the waves energy into movement.




The first Suntory Mermaid II’s trip is from Hawaii to Japan using wave power, and solar panels to power the electronics equipment.