Promote local and sustainable ? It is possible! The company Galette de Luc shows us that such feat is achievable. Celles at Houyet in Belgium, one of the most beautiful villages in Wallonia, houses an atypical manufacturing plant: The Galette de Luc. For nearly 10 years,...
The state of South Australia has announced that it will create a network of thousands of solar-powered homes. Tesla was awarded a deal to install solar panels and batteries in nearly 50,000 homes over the next five years. Initial phases of the plan are already...
Firstly the aim of this photovoltaic balloon is to make the humanitarian intervention easier by allowing the access to energy in a crisis situation. Inflated with helium in a few minutes, the balloon of 3 m diameter covered with ultra-light solar panels is sent into the...
In order to reduce more and more our consumption of electric energy, different researchers develop new materials and process to transform physical movements into energy. For exemple, rechearch engineers have now created a twisted wire made of carbon nanotubes that produces current when stretched. Woven into clothing,...
What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ...