Published by Lluís Torrent i Bescós
The San Francisco Bay Area is ready to install 50 fast-charging electric vehicle (EV) stations along highways, 2,000 public stations for public parking lots and participating company-owned parking lots, and 3,000 residential charging stations.
Published by Clara Von Buch
The 1350 solar panels have been designed to track the sun’s movement across the sky and produce 1160 kw of clean, renewable electric power. Altogether, this power station incorporates the largest single axis tracking solar farm in Australia, combined with the latest diesel technology and innovative energy storage system.
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
By adopting simple guidelines for our behavior, each and every one of us helps to substantially reduce our consumption of energy without giving up the comforts that we are used to.