Category Energy

Energy islands

Archipelagos of artificial islands [could] produce electricity, clean water and even food in the belt of warm water that passes from the Caribbean across to the south China Sea, the Indian Ocean and west Africa. They would produce energy from…

Some biofuels are not eco-friendly

Biofuels may not be superior if their production results in environmental destruction, pollution and damage to human health. The Smithsonian cites a Swiss study showing that fuels made from U.S. corn, Brazilian soy and Malaysian palm oil may even be…

Heat buildings with bodies

Stockholm is collecting heat from their too-warm railroad station that 125,000 people use each day, heating it with their bodies, and piping that heat to help warm an office building across the street.