Alternative Fuels Now

Which alternatively-fueled car is going to be the winner? An all-electric model, like the Tesla Roadster? An EV with a gas-driven power generator, like the Volt or the F3DM? Or perhaps a fuel cell vehicle, like the FCX Clarity? Mercedes, it seems, is hedging its bets and going with: all three.

‘Drill, baby, drill’ process has begun

Four years ago, the City of New York held an internationl competition to design the next generation of streetlights for the city. The winner? A lighting design firm from none other than the Big Apple itself – a company called the Office for Visual Interaction. If their prototype makes it through the testing stage, it will become the standard streetlight across the whole city.

What Makes This Bridge in Sneek, the Netherlands One of a Kind?

Thanks to thin films and - in this case - dye-sensitized cells, designers can put solar panels pretty much anywhere. The fact that Hyun-Joong Kim and Kwang-Seok Jeong, the two designers created the SIG (self-energy converting sunglasses) probably has less to do with the inherent brilliance of this creation, and more to do with the fact that they were looking at a pair of sunglasses one day and said “Hey! What if we put SOLAR CELLS in these?”

Which alternatively-fueled car is going to be the winner? An all-electric model, like the Tesla Roadster? An EV with a gas-driven power generator, like the Volt or the F3DM? Or perhaps a fuel cell vehicle, like the FCX Clarity? Mercedes, it seems, is hedging its bets and going with: all three.

‘Drill, baby, drill’ process has begun

Four years ago, the City of New York held an internationl competition to design the next generation of streetlights for the city. The winner? A lighting design firm from none other than the Big Apple itself – a company called the Office for Visual Interaction. If their prototype makes it through the testing stage, it will become the standard streetlight across the whole city.

What Makes This Bridge in Sneek, the Netherlands One of a Kind?

Thanks to thin films and - in this case - dye-sensitized cells, designers can put solar panels pretty much anywhere. The fact that Hyun-Joong Kim and Kwang-Seok Jeong, the two designers created the SIG (self-energy converting sunglasses) probably has less to do with the inherent brilliance of this creation, and more to do with the fact that they were looking at a pair of sunglasses one day and said “Hey! What if we put SOLAR CELLS in these?”