Harvest Energy from Power Lines to Recharge Your Batteries
The entire city is your power source with an innovative gadget by designer Dennis Siegel that harvests energy from electromagnetic fields and instantly recharges batteries. These 'energy ...
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Faux Facades: Fake Buildings Hide Trains, Power & More
When is a building not a building? When it is only a facade, (aka a) dummy! You might have passed right by train tunnels, communications towers or even entirely empty buildings and never realized ...
Gone Fission: 11 Unfinished Nuclear Power Plants
These 11 unfinished, abandoned, canceled, mothballed and/or suspended nuclear power plants will, for better or worse, never know the warmth of split atoms. ...
Intelligent Interstates: 5 High-Tech ‘Smart Highway’ Systems
With prototypes set to hit the pavement in the Netherlands next year, these interactive interventions take innovation back from a focus on the car and put it right on the road. Examples ...
DIY Civilization: 40-Part Post-Apocalypse Construction Kit
Worried about the end of the world? A group of engineers has created a series of do-it-yourself machines for building (or reconstructing) society anywhere with access to light, water and ...
The Charge Cycle: Bike-Powered Public Phone Charging Station
Soon, you'll be able to charge your iPhone at strategic locations around New York City - but you'll have to put in a little leg work. The Charge Cycle is a stationary bike equipped with an iPhone ...
Towers of Trash: 5000-Foot Junk Skyscrapers to Fuel Cities
The Germans have a dark joke about their low-water-consumption, eco-friendly toilets and cultural history, which goes something like this: you have to look at your garbage before you get to flush ...
Powerhouse Ideas: 10 Futuristic Clean Power Concepts
Producing power used to be so simple when it seemed like fossil fuel would last forever. But since we've wised up and realized that finding and developing viable alternatives is a rather urgent ...
Have a Gas! Japan’s Artistic Gas Storage Tank Paint Jobs
Though Japan's troubled nuclear plants have hogged the spotlight of late, atomic power only provides about 20% of the Asian nation's energy needs. Petroleum products provide much of the rest, and ...
Nuclear Coverup: 10 Cool Examples Of Cooling Tower Art
Cooling towers have come to symbolize power plants - nuclear or not - around the world. Standing hundreds of feet tall with a distinctive hourglass profile, some of these "towers of power" show ...
