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Battery manufacturing works with animal dung
Bacteria in waste, including animal manure, can help generate electricity, according to new research by US scientists.
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US made 'bacterial batteries in waste water'
US scientists have found a new way to produce clean energy from contaminated sewage, according to AFP.
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Russian-made equipment can produce electricity from waste water
Scientists in the Russian city of Kazan have announced that they have successfully fabricated a device called cold cyclonic siphon that allows the collection of electric…
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Water purifier in bottle
Bottled water is a big business but the production consumes a lot of energy and creates waste that pollutes the environment.
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Australia: A technology that turns garbage into new materials
Recent research by Professor Veena Sahajwalla of the University of New South Wales in Australia has made the dream of turning waste from old cars into new materials.
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ERO: Concrete demolition robot
Destroying a large building is not easy when engineers may have to use explosives to break up huge blocks of concrete.
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Green machine: Recycling robot
The Finnish company ZenRobotics has released a model of garbage recycling robots that they hope could help solve the problem of increasing global waste.
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Phone is water soluble
Tablet PCs, mobile phones, music players, laptops are rolling out at breakneck speed. This situation means that e-waste will also increase rapidly.
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TiO2 - the 'most useful material in the world'
Led by Associate Professor Darren Sun, team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) after five years of research has successfully developed a new…
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Special technology leaves the leaves after a few hours
German scientists have developed a new technology that allows the leaves to turn into fuel after one night.
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Build a brick house made of paper
Recently, scientists at the University of Jaen in Spain have developed the idea of turning waste paper into bricks used in construction.
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Strange toilet doesn't need water
By evaporating or self-composting waste products to make organic fertilizer, unique unused water toilets in Canada have saved a lot of wastewater and are good for the en…
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Synthesize power from trees
The University and the Wageningen Research Center (NL) have developed a technology that allows the conversion of wetlands (which account for about 6% of the Earth's…
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Robot works with waste
British scientists have successfully created robots capable of producing electricity from human waste.
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Foam from wood
Scientists at the University of Freiburg in Germany are working on a project called Biofoambark to take advantage of scrap in the wood industry, turning them into foam f…