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Sepp Hasslberger: “Plonkable” Concentrated Solar Into Electricity On the Spot?

Concentrated solar uses the energy-rich infrared band of solar radiation and it has great promise, but it depends on simple and cheap tech being developed to capture and convert that heat to electricity. South African team may have solved solar puzzle even Google couldn’t crack “We are developing plonkable heliostats. Plonkable means that from factory …

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Review: Crisis without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

Helen Caldicott et al. 4.0 out of 5 stars Vital Detailed Truth, Lacks Compelling Visualization, July 9, 2015 This book stems from a conference and is a very nicely presented double-spaced precis of the world-class contributions from the conference. Highlights: HELEN CALDICOTT QUOTE (3): The Fukushima disaster is not over and will not end for …

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Sepp Hasslberger: 10,000 Baby Sea Lions Die — No One Has the Moral Courage to Mention Fukushima

Starving sea lion pups die by the thousands and wash up on the American West Coast. The marine scientists are baffled as to what is the cause. Have they forgotten Fukushima and the massive dose of radioactive elements that have been put into the Pacific Ocean for several years now? Or is is “not cool” …

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Jeffrey Jaxen: Open Source 3D Printer Relevant to Food, Water, Nutrition, and Medicine

……is a physical device that can give “people everywhere the ability to be more self-sustaining and self-reliant in four key areas: food, water, nutrition and medicine.” Health Ranger to release open source 3D printer files for upcoming invention with early 2015 release date EXTRACT What’s so extraordinary about this invention is that it requires no …

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Sepp Hasslberger: Beautiful Woven Refugee Tents Get Their Power from the Sun Read more: Beautiful Woven Refugee Tents Get Their Power from the Sun

Beautiful Woven Refugee Tents Get Their Power from the Sun Designer Abeer Seikaly has developed a practical yet elegant solution to the need for lightweight, mobile, and structurally sound shelters for disaster zones. The Canadian-Jordanian’s Weaving a Home project not only provides flexible, transportable shelter, but also incorporates water collection, solar power generation and solar water heating into the …

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Robert Steele: UMD Does It Again – Graphene-Based Light Detector Can “See” Much That Has Been Hidden

The University of Maryland is a national treasure, one I consider the equal of MIT in part because it is much more focused on practical needs. Many possibilities in the way of innovative technology have been repressed these past decades by proprietary interests, while others have remained undiscovered due to biases and short-comings in research …

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