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Melting Steel With Only the Sun (Video)

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Youtube screen grab. See video below. Steel’s Melting Point is Approx. 1,370 °C (2,500 °F) Melting steel in a solar oven (aka solar concentrator) isn’t new or unique, but it’s always cool to see and a good reminder of just how much energy is hitting the sunny side of the planet at any moment. The video below shows a short exerpt of James May’s ” Big Ideas ” series (James is better known for the Top Gear show), and they start by cooking, er, burning a sausage, and then they melt a steel plate. Impressive to see how q… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sea Level Rise Forces Panama Islanders to Relocate

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“You’re looking for the cafe? Yeah, turn left at the sunken car, and right at the seaweed grove. If you’ve hit fresh air, you’ve gone too far.” We jest, but the issue of climate change refugees is indeed a worrying and immediate subject. Photo via elbragon Some of the earliest climate change refugees are those that must relocate due to rising sea levels . A threat to people living around the world, from northern Canada to the

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Architects Build A Half-Scale Room Inside A Full-Scale Room: "It’s Like Alice In Wonderland."

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Photos by Yannis Drakoulidis Real estate developers often trick purchasers by filling model suites with special 7/8 full size furniture to make rooms look bigger. Now Point Supreme Architects are tricking art gallery patrons by building a room at exactly 1/2 full size, and putting it inside the full size room. We love showing small spaces, but usually one can stand up in them. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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From a Vat of Green Tea, Grows Gross (but Cool) Green Fashion called BioCouture (Photos)

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Bio Bomber Jacket, grown from a vat of green tea. Image courtesy of Suzanna Lee. Is it possible to “grow a frock from a vat of liquid” using cellulose-spinning bacteria? This is exactly what fashion designer Suzanna Lee asked before she began BioCouture , a research project based at Central Saint Martin’s College in London. From a vat of sugary green tea, she grew a textile biomaterial, resulting in seamless clothing that has the look and feel of vegetable leather (we read it first on Seed and Sew ). Click through for more gross (but cool) … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Admin Issues New Offshore Drilling Moratorium – After Judge Struck Down First One

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Oil spill cleanup vehicle photo: US Coast Guard via flickr Coming through a variety of sources all through the afternoon, not the least of which is the AP talking to Obama administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity, is word that a new offshore oil drilling moratorium will be issued–a little more than two weeks after

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Genetically Modified Salmon May Be Declared "Safe" For Human Consumption

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Trisopterus luscus or “pout,” genes from which have been inserted into Atlantic Salmon for the purpose of making it eat all the time. Image credit: Wikipedia This proposed commercial genetic trick – inserting the genes of a “pout fish” (as pictured ) into Atlantic Salmon genes – has nothing to do with improved taste or texture or color or nutrition we’d appreciate as salmon-eating consumers. It’s being done so farm-raised Atlantic salmon will eat year round, gaining weight through what would naturally have been the spawning season. Maybe, just maybe, consumer cos… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Urban Nomad Redux: Build and Live in Your Own Microhouse

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Images: Alex Farmer Compact, efficient and optionally mobile, micro-dwellings have been around for some time. As the the “less is more” lifestyle is gaining momentum, they are making bigger waves nowadays and it’s exciting to see people actually build their own, like this replica of a 50-year-old design constructed by Glasgow School of Art student Alex Farmer, who based it on architect Ken Issac’s original 8-foot Microhouse concept from the 1960s. Proving that old ideas can still have fresh impact on tod… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Salmon Saved From Epidemic Thanks to Virus Discovery

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Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Farmed Atlantic salmon make up a popular portion of the more than 110 million ton-farmed fish industry—but a deadly and, until now, mysterious affliction threatens the commercial future of the fish. New research, however, may help researchers save Atlantic salmon on farms and in the wild…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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IKEA to Phase-Out Incandescents Starting August 1st, 2010

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Photo: Flickr , CC First U.S. Retailer to Phase Out the Bulb Starting August 1st, 2010, IKEA will start phasing out incandescent bulbs (which are a lot more effective at producing heat than light) from its U.S. stores, with the goal of having completely eliminated the bulb by January 1st, 2011. But IKEA isn’t only doing this out of concern for the environment: “The IKEA phase out will come in advance of the federal legislation that will begin to phase out incandescent light bulbs in 2012.” Why are they doing this and w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Upcoming ReuseConex Conference Covers the Important Rs

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We spend a lot of time on TreeHugger about adaptive reuse, designing for deconstruction, creative upcycling and repurposing, the connection between reuse and climate change, and even reuse as “the original green job.” You’ve read the blog, now attend Reuse-Conex – the “First of its kind conference highlighting reuse.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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