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An Energy Monitoring Brain Makes This Building the World’s First Zero Carbon Convention Center

It’s not often (ever?) that a convention center is anything worth being excited about, but Ireland’s new Convention Centre Dublin uses ingenius engineering and an omniscient mother brain to monitor and adjust itself. The result? Zero carbon footprint.

Every aspect of the CCD’s design has been(…)
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Research: Biofuels still a mere drop in barrel as fuel alternative
For those of you studying bio-fuels and bio-based materials developments, there’s a new report out you might want to grab. It finds that the total capacity for biofuels today is only about 3 percent that of petroleum-based fuels and that some pretty(…)
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Concept Phone Made From Copper Charges in Pockets Using a Thermogenerator

What would you sacrifice for a phone that charges by inducting heat from your body? An OS? A brand-name you can be proud of? A touchscreen? That’s the question I pose to you, after spotting this concept Nokia phone.
It’s been dreamed up by English designer(…)
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This Bridge Looks Like It Can Fly to Space

The Paik Nam June Media Bridge project—in Seoul, Korea—is more than a kilometer long (0.67 miles). It has museums, libraries, and shopping malls, but what it really needs are anti-gravity engines so it could fly to orbit.
Those ramps are not engines of any kind, however.(…)
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