Green and Sustainable News for late August - early Sept 2008, including stories on bioplastics, retail, consumer products, flame retardants, sustainability metrics, and more
biomimicry
Green News Roundup
(via www.melodiesinmarketing.com)
Submitted by mvellandi on Sat, 2008-09-06 22:47. | Tags: business | BASF | biomimicry | bioplastics | general electric | green chemistry | sanyo | sustainability metrics | tesco
BioWave - free electricity from mimicking sea plants
(via www.greenoptimistic.com)
BioPower Systems from Australia thought that making an under-ocean energy collecting system whose movement resembles with the one plants have, would be much more efficient and non-disturbing to the environment.
Submitted by sweet_andra87 on Fri, 2008-05-16 14:46. | Tags: technology | biomimicry | biopower | biowave | clean energy | energy from ocean | free energy | ocean energy | wave electricity | wave power
Our Synthetic Energy Future - A Roadmap
(via cleantechlawandbusiness.com)
The Department of Energy is using synthetic biology to create new sources of clean energy.
Submitted by wpentland on Thu, 2008-04-10 04:04. | Tags: science | bioenergy | biofuels | biomimicry | clean energy | environment | Renewable Energy | science | technology
Water Vortex used to drive a powerplant - producing 57,000kW/hour for the last year.
(via blog.hasslberger.com)
Instead of a normal dam, why not spin a waterwheel by the creation of a slow-moving vortex? The fishies will like it, and you will end up with a silent method for producing energy. One has already been running in Austria, and this form of utilizing the spiraling movement inherent in nature should be commended.
Submitted by esaruohesaruoho on Fri, 2007-08-03 19:52. | Tags: technology | biomimetic | biomimicry | centripetal | copying | flow | fluid | inwards | lemniscate | movement | schauberger | spiral | vortex | water | weaving
