December 2009
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Teenager Wins Science Fair, Solves Massive... →
11th-grader Daniel Burd successfully isolated 2 types of bacteria that will eat plastic grocery bags, allowing the bags to biodegrade in months instead of hundreds of years.
via makdreams: age-of-ecology: supergluefiend
KU, Kansas Athletics team with ESPN for 'Green... →
“ESPN has produced two short features about green initiatives on the KU campus, both of which will air during the broadcast. The first highlights the 15 elliptical machines in the David A. Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center that convert kinetic energy created by individual workouts and feed it back into the building’s electrical grid. The center is one of the only student fitness...
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Syracuse University, IBM Launch Off-Grid Data... →
“The $12.4 million, 12,000-square-foot facility is run with an on-site power generation system that uses natural gas-fueled microturbines to generate all the electricity for the center and all of the cooling for the computer servers. The liquid cooling system uses double-effect absorption chillers to convert the exhaust heat from the microturbines into chilled water that cools the servers...
Set Your Household Appliances to Vibrate and... →
“Business Green reports the researchers are looking at harvesting kinetic energy from a new type of harvesting device that uses non-linear spring and mass. The change would allow the device to resonate over a broader frequency range so that the single device can be used for more applications, such as charging small batteries or even monitoring vitals like blood pressure and heart rate on...