Birds colliding with airplanes, an incident known as bird strikes, is a big problem within the industry. Not only can the bird strikes cause harm to the airplanes, flight delays and maybe even cancellation, the incident kills thousands of birds each year. Bird strikes...
In London, an old courthouse will be home to the largest rooftop forest in all of Europe. It will contain 125 trees and more than 10 000 plants in total. The project is called Roots in The Sky and the public will have access to this garden. Also, Londoners with a...
Lithos Carbon, an agriculture-tech company is using dust from the basalt rock (a volcanic rock) as fertilizer but also as a way of removing carbon from the global cycle. How? By spreading it on farmers' fields. The startup sells this method as carbon credits to...
The American company Aeromine Technologies has developed small wind turbines that can be placed on a roof.The turbines are approximately three meters high and, according to the manufacturer, they should be able to produce up to 50 percent more electricity than solar...
Solar Cycle, an American startup, is transforming broken solar panels from landfill waste into valuable raw material which can be turned into new solar panels once again. Materials like copper, aluminum, silver and silicone are recovered from the old solar panels and...
A year ago, a nightclub known as SWG3 in Glasgow, Scotland announced that they were to install a system they call BODYHEAT which turns the heat generated from dancers’ bodies into energy. On Wednesday October 5th the club activated this system. Andrew...