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Concave Roof provides water and free cooling
People in arid climates often struggle with two problems. The first one is the heat, and the second a shortage of water. Iran-based BMDesign Studios has come up with a new roof design for a ...
Read more >Origami bio-battery powered by bacteria
Researchers at Binghamton University in New York have created a bacteria-powered bio-battery from a sheet of paper. The project is aimed at creating batteries for disposable microelectronics that can run for weeks using wastewater. The manufacturing ...
Read more >Indigo Slam: a sustainable concrete sculpture to live in
Is it house or is it art? Why not both? Smart Design Studio designed a house as a sculpture, called Indigo Slam, for an art collector. The house, with a façade made from sculpted concrete, ...
Read more >3D printed structure made with bamboo-reinforced compounds
Bamboo is a strong, sustainable and very diverse material. It can be used to build amazing structures (like this and this). Techmer ES (TES), a manufacturer of high-performance custom compounds used in the plastics industry, ...
Read more >Bioreactors on the move to replace oil
We have discussed the topic algae a lot in the past few years, but that is because you can so do much with them. Often, the algae are used to make something, such as bio-foam, ...
Read more >Wattway: a solar road to clean energy in Normandy
An average road is used only about ten per cent of the time, which means that ninety per cent of the time, it is just a slap of asphalt (or other material) doing nothing. To ...
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