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City Of Green Rings To Be Built In Korea

April 20, 2009 by Justin Thomas 16 Comments

A Dutch architecture group MVRDV have won a competition to design a city center for Gwanggyo, a new city which could be built south of Seoul, Korea. The town is planned to be a self-sufficient city of 77,000 inhabitants.

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: architecture, architecture group, box hedges, center, centre, city, dutch architecture, hollow cores, MVRDV, seoul korea

Biogas: Producing Ultra-Efficient Fuel From Sewage

August 24, 2008 by Justin Thomas 13 Comments

We could be generating huge amounts of power from sewage. The process is fairly simple — just ferment sewage to produce a fuel called biogas. Biogas is almost entirely methane, and so is natural gas, so the two are essential interchangeable. The potential to produce biogas is almost entirely overlooked by most countries — except… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Buses, Recycling, Renewable Power, Trains Tagged With: city, city buses, garbage trucks, private taxis, Producing, Resource, tailpipe emissions, toilet waste, Ultra, waste

Rock Port: First U.S. City To Run On 100% Wind Power

April 21, 2008 by Justin Thomas 8 Comments

Officials at Rock Port, Missouri, christened a four-turbine wind farm this week, making Rock Port the first U.S. city to get 100% of its electricity from wind power.

Filed Under: Renewable Power Tagged With: Capital, city, excess power, farm, Group, kilowatt hours, loess hills, power, rock port missouri, wind turbines

Solar Trees May Light Up Europe

December 23, 2007 by Justin Thomas 34 Comments

This is a great innovation — the streets of Europe could soon be lit by "solar trees". These self-contained streetlights could save cities energy and money too. Unlike regular streetlights, they do not require costly underground wiring to install, and they are immune to blackouts. Designed by Ross Lovegrove, the lights have 10 solar panels… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: LEDs, Lighting, News Tagged With: carbon emissions, city, energy efficient lighting, kwh, LEDs, light pollution, power leds, street, street lighting, Trees

11 MW Solar Tower Complex Opens in Spain

April 2, 2007 by Justin Thomas 5 Comments

Europe’s first concentrated tower open recently near the sunny southern Spanish city of Seville. The 11 megawatt plant took four years to build — it was created by a Spanish energy company, Solucar. The tower project is called “PS10″ and it uses 624 large movable mirrors called heliostats. Each of the mirrors has a surface… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: city, electric power generation, plant, power generation plants, Solucar, southern spanish city, steam turbine, surface, thermoelectric power plant, turbine

Carfree Cities

October 12, 2004 by Justin Thomas 3 Comments

Imagine life in a city free from the noise, stench, and danger of cars, trucks, and buses. Imagine that all basic needs, from groceries to child care, lie within a five-minute walk of every doorstep. Imagine that no commute takes more than 35 minutes from door to door, and that service is provided by a… [Continue Reading]