Category: Technology

What isn’t covered with shade, but could use it? What does the sun shine down on whenever the sun is out? Highways and bike lanes. There’s over 10 million miles of roads around the world. That’s a lot of opportunities for harvesting free solar energy from the sun, even  on a cloudy day. While it […]

There is an exciting new technology that looks to draw energy from trees. That’s right, by concerting the movements of tree branches and shrubs, anemokinetics technology can tap into a vast, renewable  energy sources provided by Nature. This sustainable and regenerative energy conversion can even lead to powering entire cities in the future! There’s a […]

Would you like your driveway to generate free solar energy? Thanks to Platio Solar, you now can. Their new solar tiles are mounted on top of recycled plastic paving slabs, allowing them to blend seamlessly into driveways or pavements of any kind. These pavers made from plastic bottles are a novel way of capturing solar […]

Katy Ayers, a student hailing from Nebraska, has done something incredible: she grew a canoe out of mycelium. Her mushroom canoe went viral recently, and for good reason. It’s never been done before, until now. Calling it Myconoe, as a nod to the Reishi mushroom mycelium that it’s made of, Katy’s eight-foot long canoe was […]