Tweet(CNN) — Wind turbines have long produced renewable energy but a French engineering firm has discovered another eco-purpose for the towering structures. Eole Water claims to have successfully modified the traditional wind turbine design to create the WMS1000, an appliance that can manufacture drinking water from humid air.
Category Archive: green technology
Jul 11
Why Farmers are Clean Tech Pioneers
TweetWhen it comes to adopting new technologies, particularly solar, farmers and owners of agriculture-related operations have often led the way. Farmers make good pioneering cleantech users for several reasons: They have a lot of space to deploy first-gen technology, particularly for equipment that’s heavy and bulky; they’re heavy energy users who seek ways to reduce …
Jul 04
Time to Make More out of Waste
TweetDumping all our household waste on landfill is bad for the environment. A Spanish company teamed up with European Scientists and engineers to find the best way to ensure more of our organic rubbish is turned into biogas and compost. Hundreds of years ago, humans discovered flammable gas could be produced from rotting organic matter …
Jul 02
10 coolest zero-emission ATVs for sustainable rides
Tweet Despite advancements in Information Technology which has the bought the whole world within a computer screen, a lot of human activities are still based on traveling by road, primarily using vehicles. In industrial nations, it comes as a major setback on the ecological environment, which gets polluted as result of the vehicular usage. Hence, …
Jul 01
VoltAir: Sustainable Commercial Electric Aviation
TweetThe other ZEHST (zero-emission hypersonic airliner) model that was unveiled at the Paris Air Show 2011 was EADS’ VoltAir. VoltAir is an electricity-driven aircraft that could actually rule the skies in the next 25 years. This futuristic and innovative, all-electric airliner will function on two modified lithium air batteries that will have the capacity to …
Jun 24
The World’s First True Hybrid-Electric Airplane Unveiled
Tweet Siemans just unveiled the world’s first true plug-in hybrid-electric airplane, which has an engine that resembles the Chevy Volt‘s. The airplane took its maiden flight on June 8 at the Wiener Neustadt airfield in Vienna, Austria and could reduce fuel consumption and emissions by 25% — that number is taken from statistics of the …
















