Living large in 65 square feet
Homes are shrinking in America. After doubling in size since 1960, the national average dropped for the first time in nearly 15 years (by 9%, the size of one average room).
But far from this new average of 2,000 plus square feet are the so-called tiny houses. Also called wee homes, mini dwellings, or microhomes, their definition is not exact, but they run as small as
Wind power could be stored as ice
A perfect way of storing electricity generated by wind turbines has been elusive so far. Ideas like super-sized batteries, compressed air, and hydroelectric storage have all been floated. One company though thinks the answer could be as simple as making ice.
Calmac has come up with a storage system called IceBank that uses the energy generated at off-peak nighttime hours to make ice. That stored ice is then
Waste heat could power computers, cell phones
Close to 60 percent of the energy produced by burning fuels or generated by power plants is lost as excess heat. Computers, cars and cell phones all have to get rid of excess heat to run properly, creating a significant energy waste. Researchers at MIT believe they’ve developed a way to reclaim a majority of that wasted energy and turn it into electricity.
Such an advancement
