So the answer to "how efficient are today's cars" is, lot more efficient if we as drivers join forces with the technology. Leverage the features and technologies car makers are providing and lets reduce our carbon footprint starting from today! Post by Ketan Deshpande, MN
Category: Sustainable living
Solar cell efficiency breakthrough
University of Wyoming professors has discovered a way to dramatically increase the solar cell efficiency by up to 700 percent.
World’s largest floating solar power plant
This 40MW plant in Huainan city in Anhui province is the world's largest floating solar power plant. Interestingly the facility is built on a flooded former coal mine.
Renewable power for desalination
Water scarcity challenges across the global are very well known and across the globe a wide variety of innovative approaches are being taken to develop sustainable solutions for clean drinking water, one recent development was use of Graphene Oxide membranes for desalination. Abu Dhabi's Masdar has launched a pilot program to use renewable energy for the desalination process along with other initiatives to reduce the over all energy foot print needed for desalination.
Graphene Oxide filters salt from sea water
Water scarcity issues could be helped by Graphene oxide membranes that can remove salt from sea water