CORPUS CHRISTI — A local company has developed a new system that is saving commercial buildings thousands of gallons of water each month. The green system not only helps the city conse... Read more
Foam That Lasts and Lasts and Lasts There’s nothing special about foaming soap solutions; however, a soap foam that lasts several months, even at 60°C, is unusual. Especially if the fo... Read more
Water softening techniques are very effective for removing minerals such as calcium and magnesium, which occur as positively-charged ions in “hard” water. But many heavy metals a... Read more
Having enough water during a drought can be a challenge, especially when residents are asked to conserve. But a Central Texas man has created a contraption where you can make your own water... Read more
At last year’s IFA electronics trade show, Miele unveiled its SmartGrid-ready washer and dryer. Although they run off of regular mains power, these machines are also able to access the... Read more
Light…one Litre at a time. Take a used Soda bottle, add Water, Bleach and My Shelter Foundation’s Illac Diaz, and you get 50w of daytime light for 5 years. As reported by Brynn Opsahl, on th... Read more
AQUA-NU: IT MAY HAVE taken six years, but Louth-based entrepreneur Pat Farrelly of Aqua-Nu has come up with a pioneering water filtration technology that has some of the biggest names in the... Read more
Here’s some amazing tech from Japan: Tokyo-based Mebiol is working on an membrane–based plant cultivation technology called Imec that makes it possible to let plants grow on thin film instea... Read more
Duke engineers have already shown that they can “cloak” light and sound, making objects invisible — now, they have demonstrated the theoretical ability to significantly inc... Read more
GRANITE SHOALS, TX (KXAN/NBC) – A Texas man isn’t bothered by the drought affecting the entire nation due to his invention that can make water out of the air. Terry LeBleu’... Read more
As a young girl growing up in Massachusetts, Kim Hoffman spent many summers on her parent’s sailboat. Sometimes she would stare at the water and think, “There’s got to be a... Read more
SINGAPORE’S average annual rainfall is more than double that of notoriously soggy Britain, so the casual observer might be surprised to learn that the place has a shortage of drinking water.... Read more
A simple and inexpensive way to produce drinking water IN THE dry desert on the west coast of Namibia, where the annual average rainfall is a meagre 40mm, the Namib beetle (Stenocara gracili... Read more
As anyone who has seen Back to the Future will remember, the movie ended with Doc Brown fueling the time-traveling DeLorean’s “Mr. Fusion” reactor with household waste. Wel... Read more
Ferrate is a type of supercharged iron particle, in which iron is in the plus 6 oxidation state – it’s also known as Iron (VI). That might not interest you, but perhaps this will: it can be... Read more
