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Inhabitat's Week in Green: Sky City One, sub-zero cafe and the world's longest Lego train track

eco, eco-friendly, green, inhabitat, lego, sky city, SkyCity, solar, transportation 5/20/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Inhabitat's Week in Green" data-src-height="400" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/desert-ice-lounge.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Eyes in the design world turned to New York City this week as New York Design Week officially launched. We hit the floors of International Contemporary Furniture Fair today to bring you the best new green designs from one of the largest contemporary design shows in the US -- including Blackbody's gorgeous OLED light trees and Tat Chao's ethereal LED lamps made from recycled wine glasses. We also checked out the locally focused BKLYN Designs show, where design duo Bower unveiled an awesome magnetic LED lamp, made from discarded pieces of scrap wood. Lighting designer Adam Frank unveiled three inspiring new designs at BKLYN Designs: the LED Lumen lamp, which casts tree-shaped shadows from a little candle holder; the incredible Reveal Projector, which projects an image of outdoor foliage and sky through a window on a blank wall (good for those in tiny NYC apartments); and the 3D hologram-ish LUCID Mirror, which displays a 3D image of illuminated clouds over your head!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Sky City One<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">, a 220-story, entirely prefabricated skyscraper, is set to break ground next month in China. The entire building will be built in just seven months, and when it's finished it will supplant Dubai's Burj Khalifa as the world's tallest building. Speaking of Dubai, the latest bizarre attraction in the desert metropolis is the Chillout Cafe, a sub-zero cafe that's completely decked out with furniture and accessories that are made from carved ice. In other desert architecture news, Tangram Gulf unveiled plans for a Qatar World Cup Stadium that "sculpts the desert wind" to provide passive cooling. Beijing-based Decode Urbanism Office designed a conceptual skyscraper that's covered with thousands of small wind turbines and LED lights. And MOKO Architects unveiled plans to develop a crazy skydiving center in Warsaw that would be made from silos and shipping containers.</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Wind energy company SheerWind caught the attention of the clean energy world when it unveiled an amazing new funnel-shaped turbine that can produce up to 600 percent more power than traditional wind turbines. In Japan, offshore technology company Mitsui is planning to install the world's first hybrid wind / current power-generating system, which combines a floating vertical-axis wind turbine with an underwater turbine that generates power from ocean currents. Scientists at SUNY Buffalo are developing a new generation of liquid solar cells that could one day be as cheap as paint. And this week, Hyundai announced plans to install South Korea's largest solar power plant.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">In green transportation news, the Global Vehicle Trust developed a prototype for the world's first flat-pack truck, which can be assembled in just 12 hours. Amtrak announced that it would replace 70 older trains in the Northeast Corridor with new high-efficiency electric trains. A team from the US Naval Research Laboratory broke its own record by flying a hydrogen fuel cell-powered unmanned airplane for 48 hours and one minute. And in another bit of record-breaking news, a group of Lego superfans in Denmark pieced together the world's longest Lego train track, which stretches more than 2.5 miles. In other Lego news, a newly launched company called Pleygo allows kids to rent and trade Lego sets. They're aiming to be the "Netflix of Legos!"</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">In science and design news this week, a 16-year-old high school student has been using fruit flies to investigate the benefits of organic over conventional produce. Scientist Mark Post has developed a lab-grown hamburger made up of 20,000 strips of cultured muscle, and he plans to serve it up for $325,000 in London next month. In gadgets-for-good news, a team of midwives developed an incredible "Solar Suitcase" which is pretty-much what it sounds like: a photovoltaic, fold-up suitcase lamp that allows midwives to see what they are doing at night or in dark houses, saving the lives of mothers and babies during childbirth in developing countries where access to electricity and hospitals is limited. Researchers in Potsdam-Golm have figured out a way to use an inkjet printer to create electrically conductive paper. Engineer Amanda Ghassaei developed a technique for creating beautiful and functional records out of wood using a laser cutter, and a technology firm in Japan has developed an interactive clothes hanger that helps shoppers make purchasing decisions.</div></div>

Inhabitat's Week in Green: Sky City One, sub-zero cafe and the world's longest Lego train track

Eyes in the design world turned to New York City this week as New York Design Week officially launched. We hit the floors of International C...

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جامعة جورجيا توقف عملية التمثيل الضوئي مصنع لتوليد الطاقة الشمسية

energy, minipost, nanotube, photosynthesis, plant, plants, science, solar, thylakoid, universityofgeorgia 5/13/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="mttextarea" dir="rtl" id="TranslationOutput" style="direction: rtl;"><div name="div[0]"> <img alt="University of Georgia interrupts plant photosynthesis to make truly green energy" data-src-height="415" data-src-width="619" height="429" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/u-georgia-plant-energy.jpg" width="640" /></div><div name="div[0]">هناك طريقة أكثر كفاءة لحصاد الطاقة من الفناء الخلفي من الأسلاك حتى المخلوقات التعساء. باحثون في جامعة جورجيا قد الإثبات: أنهم اكتشفوا طريقة لتوليد الكهرباء من النباتات عن طريق خطف في عملية التمثيل الضوئي. بتغيير البروتينات داخل ثيلاكويدس خلية النبات، التي تقوم بتخزين الطاقة الشمسية، يمكن اعتراض العلماء الإلكترونات عن طريق دعم أنبوب نانوي الكربون التي توجه لهم بعيداً قبل وكنت تستخدم لجعل السكر. في حين أن الطاقة الناتجة ليست ظاهرة، ما زال اثنان أوامر من حجم أفضل من الطرق السابقة، وفقا للجامعة. قد يكون الأسلوب تعديل بروتين مستقبل وردية، وكذلك: ويعتقد الفريق أنه يمكن أن تتنافس في نهاية المطاف مع الخلايا الشمسية المنتجة للطاقة الخضراء في إحساس حرفية جداً.</div></div></div>

جامعة جورجيا توقف عملية التمثيل الضوئي مصنع لتوليد الطاقة الشمسية

هناك طريقة أكثر كفاءة ل حصاد الطاقة من الفناء الخلفي من الأسلاك حتى المخلوقات التعساء . باحثون في جامعة جورجيا قد الإثبات...

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Inhabitat's Week in Green: asteroid mining, a Legoland hotel and the Amsterdam Light Festival

eco friendly, EcoFriendly, green, inhabitat, solar, this week in green, ThisWeekInGreen 1/27/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body"> <div style="text-align: left;"> Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.</div><div class="image-container" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="DNP Inhabitat's Week in Green TKTKTK" data-src-height="400" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/jan-buchel-energy-efficient-amsterdam-light-festival-2012-1.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> Of all the technological breakthroughs we've witnessed in recent years, the emergence of 3D printing technology is one of the most exciting. This week saw a number of breakthroughs in the realm of 3D printing, beginning with Deep Space Industries' plans to develop space-based 3D printers that could produce satellites using materials mined from asteroids. Dutch design firm Universe Architecture announced plans to build the world's first 3D-printed house (which is shaped like a Mobius strip), and French sculptor Gael Langevin is currently developing a design for an open-source humanoid robot that you can make at home with a 3D printer. We learned about an inventive DIYer who figured out a way to hack an old inkjet printer and transform it into a bioprinter. And at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on Monday, Iris van Herpen debuted the world's first 3D-printed flexible dresses.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> In renewable energy news, this week Inhabitat sent a reporter to Masdar City, which was once billed as the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste city, to report on some of the new energy-efficient developments there -- including Siemens' new LEED Platinum headquarters and the world's largest concentrated solar power plant. V3solar announced that its spinning cone-shaped photovoltaic cells could produce power at two-thirds the current cost of retail electricity, and a report issued by the World Wildlife Fund found that solar power could serve all the world's energy needs. Belgium announced plans to construct an artificial island to be used solely as storage for wind energy, and Duke Energy recently flipped the switch on what the company claims is the world's largest battery power storage system in West Texas.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> In the world of green transportation, Toyota and BMW announced plans to create next-generation car batteries that will generate energy from thin air. At the World Future Energy Summit, students at Osaka Sangyo University rolled out a sporty new emissions-free fuel cell vehicle that's already licensed to drive on the roads in Japan. We also had a chance to check out the Zerotracer, a closed-cabin electric motorbike that recently traveled around the world in 80 days.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> In green lighting news, artist Anne Militello recently unveiled her Light Cycles LED art installation, which transforms the 10-story atrium of the World Financial Center in New York City into an impressive glowing light show each night. And speaking of light installations, the entire city of Amsterdam has been aglow with light sculptures, LED decorations, fiery boat parades and huge projections for the Amsterdam Light Festival, which just concluded this week. In Oslo, Squidsoup recently unveiled a new installation featuring 8,064 floating LED lights strung from the ceiling of Galleri ROM. And in San Francisco, the Bay Bridge will soon be adorned with 25,000 individually programmed white LEDs to celebrate the suspension bridge's 75th year.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Lego<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7080182682816192337"> fans will be excited to hear that North America's first Legoland hotel is set to open its doors in Carlsbad, Calif., in April. In other green architecture news, San Francisco-based firm William Duff Architects recently completed a home in Menlo Park that features a layout based on the Fibonacci sequence. Architecture students in Nantes drafted a proposal to create a floating "hydropolis" that would rest on the tide of Egypt's Nile River. And for a bit of eco eye candy, this week Inhabitat featured Virginia-based artist Eric Standley's mind-blowing paper sculptures, which look like ornate stained-glass windows.</a></div></div></div>

Inhabitat's Week in Green: asteroid mining, a Legoland hotel and the Amsterdam Light Festival

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Wee...

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Inhabitat's Week in Green: Sky City One, sub-zero cafe and the world's longest Lego train track

جامعة جورجيا توقف عملية التمثيل الضوئي مصنع لتوليد الطاقة الشمسية

Inhabitat's Week in Green: asteroid mining, a Legoland hotel and the Amsterdam Light Festival

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