Articles tagged “Green Engineering”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Planet Mechanics Episode: Heavy Metal House By Team Planet Green IN Planet Mechanics Episodes Nov 3 2009 Planet Mechanics Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield travel to Liverpool, England, to try to find a solution to Britain's affordable housing crisis. They have been invited by Professor Kronenburg, Head of Architecture at Liverpool University to help turn cheap and... + READ MORE

Planet Mechanics Episode: Air-Propelled Sandwich By Team Planet Green IN Planet Mechanics Episodes Oct 20 2009 Planet Mechanics Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield travel to Bath, England to create an eco-friendly delivery vehicle for a sandwich shop owner. Will Dick and Jem's air-propelled motorbike pass government inspection? It's not a risk-free experiment: packing atmospheres of air... + READ MORE

Planet Mechanics Episode: Solar Paella By Team Planet Green IN Planet Mechanics Episodes Sep 29 2009 Eco-engineers Dick and Jem head to Andalucia, Spain, to help a farmer pump enough water from his well to sustain his cattle. Dick harnesses wind power using a windmill pump while Jem tries a Stirling engine. Find out more about... + READ MORE

Planet Mechanics Episode: Surf Power By Team Planet Green IN Planet Mechanics Episodes Sep 22 2009 In this episode, eco-engineers Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield travel to County Clare, Ireland, in an attempt to harness the power of the ocean and generate green electricity. Using some surplus sewer pipe, they devise a huge wave energy converter.... + READ MORE

Planet Mechanics Episode: Electric Water Taxi By Team Planet Green IN Planet Mechanics Episodes Sep 8 2009 The Planet Mechanics, Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield, travel to Venice, Italy, to help save one of the world's most beautiful cities from the damaging effects of boat pollution. Find out more about the Planet Mechanics mission to fix the... + READ MORE

Planet Mechanics: Meet Dick Strawbridge By Team Planet Green IN Planet Mechanics Sep 4 2009 Dick Strawbridge served in the British army for more than 20 years, during which time he traveled the world and built up some of the most handy and impressive problem-solving and engineering skills you'll see on television. He appeared on... + READ MORE

Planet Mechanics: Meet Jem Stansfield By Team Planet Green IN Planet Mechanics Sep 4 2009 With a degree in aeronautics, a knack for creative invention and design, and a deep appreciation of nature, Jem Stansfield knows how to put his engineering skills to work for the planet. In Wild Thing I Love You, Jem worked... + READ MORE

Planet Mechanics: About the Show By Team Planet Green IN Planet Mechanics Sep 4 2009 Two engineers are on a mission to Fix the World. Every episode of Planet Mechanics takes Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield on a new adventure as they seek new ways to engineer solutions to heal the planet's most pressing environmental... + READ MORE

See Your Genius Green Idea Make it to Store Shelves By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect May 20 2009 All of you innovative crafters and great thinkers out there, listen up. Invent a groovy, green DIY project and Yahoo will prize you with $2,500, eco-royalties and a possible appearance on the PBS show Everyday Edisons. + READ MORE

College Students Bring Low-Cost Solar and Wind Drip Irrigation to Developing Nations By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport May 19 2009 The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) combined with the support of the Lemelson Foundation provides $1.5 million to student and faculty programs and ventures annually. Today's featured project by the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) is a low cost solar/wind drip irrigation system currently being tested in Peru. + READ MORE

Solar Sanitation Systems are Changing Developing Countries By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport May 14 2009 The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) combined with the support of the Lemelson Foundation provides $1.5 million to student and faculty programs and ventures annually. Today's featured project by the Georgia Tech Research Institute partnership with the Emory University Center for Global Safe Water, is a much new and improved version of the old outhouse that has been built especially for developing nations and their sanitation problems. + READ MORE

High Efficiency Stove Models Come to Africa By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport May 5 2009 Many areas throughout Africa are known for their lack of fuel for cooking, since supplies are particularly scarce in the more arid regions, such as Rwanda. Many people are forced to cut down trees in order to use the wood as a stove. These indoor fireplaces, as they most closely resemble, cause respiratory disease, degrades soil quality, soil stability, and contribute to extensive deforestation. + READ MORE

Affordable Solar Thermal Microgenerator Technology is Coming to Rural South Africa By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Apr 14 2009 The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) combined with the support of the Lemelson Foundation provides $1.5 million to student and faculty programs and ventures annually. Today's featured project by STG International, a non-profit organization started by the combined initiative of engineers and students trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is a solar thermal microgenerator capable of providing both electricity and heat to the rural areas of South Africa. + READ MORE

DIY Solar Lighting Systems for Developing Nations? By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Mar 25 2009 Currently there is desperate need for economic lighting systems that can be assembled, installed, and maintained by the millions of rural poor who live in the remote regions of the developing world. We have known for years that the traditional light sources such as lamps with cotton cloth wicks are expensive to run, provide poor quality illumination, and degrade the air quality. But the question is, how can we replace these units with an eco-friendly option? + READ MORE

Big Green Ideas - Video Gallery By Team Planet Green IN Features Mar 24 2009 It's time to think big. From solar cars to massive alternative energy and clean air efforts to simple ideas like harnessing the kinetic energy of a rotating door, watch video of ambitious, optimistic green engineering. + READ MORE

Local Universities Bring Electricity to Rural Areas of Honduras By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Mar 19 2009 Village Energy Inc., created by professors and students at Baylor University, is currently in business to bring electricity to the rural and remote communities in many developing countries. Today we will be featuring their current program going on in Honduras. Their primary goal is to deploy village-level electrical generation systems via hydroelectric distribution systems that are powered from the plentiful mountainous streams found throughout the rural areas of Honduras. + READ MORE

GlobalResolve: Reducing Pollution in Ghana Using Smart Business By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Mar 5 2009 Global Resolve is an interdisciplinary social entrepreneurship initiative at Arizona State University that is dedicated to involving students and international partners in projects that improve the lives of underprivileged people. For example, one initiative was to help reduce the indoor pollution problem which occurs in many developing countries, due to the smoke created when using coal or wood indoors as fuel. + READ MORE

SmarterShade: A New Eco-Friendly Window Treatment You Can Afford By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Feb 18 2009 In this week's Green Inventors Series: We talk with Mike Stacey and Will McLeod of SmarterShade about their window tinting system which can change any glass window from clear to dark at the flip of a switch. + READ MORE

What is Greensulate Insulation? By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Jan 21 2009 The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) combined with the support of the Lemelson Foundation provides $1.5 million to student and faculty programs and ventures annually, such as for today's featured inventive idea, Greensulate insulation and Negative Volume packaging, by Ecovative Design LLC. + READ MORE

BEST Battery Program Aims to Reduce Lead Battery Poisoning in Asia By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Dec 30 2008 The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) combined with the support of the Lemelson Foundation provides $1.5 million to student and faculty programs and ventures annually. They sponsor today's featured inventive idea, The BEST (Better Environmental Sustainability Targets) Battery Certification Program. + READ MORE