'Fog harp' harvests water even in the lightest fog
What do you get when you cross a novel approach to water harvesting with a light fog? The answer: a lot more water than you expected.
Apr 17, 2020
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COP26: Architectural firm envisions skyscrapers that capture CO2
Architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill gave a presentation last week at COP26 suggesting that skyscrapers of the future could remove more carbon dioxide out of the air than they emit. They have come up with a design ...
Energy & Green Tech
Colorful films could help buildings, cars keep their cool
The cold blast of an air conditioner can be a welcome relief as temperatures soar, but "A/C" units require large amounts of energy and can leak potent greenhouse gases. Today, scientists report an eco-friendly alternative—a ...
Mar 26, 2023
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Trying to put the brakes on car ownership
To limit pollution and traffic congestion in Beijing, officials in 2011 imposed a citywide restriction on the number of automobiles residents can purchase annually. That policy has helped limit car sales and emissions. But ...
Jun 8, 2021
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How drones and aerial vehicles could change cities
Drones, personal flying vehicles and air taxis may be part of our everyday life in the very near future. Drones and air taxis will create new means of mobility and transport routes. Drones will be used for surveillance, delivery ...
Jul 7, 2020
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Drones to deliver incessant buzzing noise, and packages
A sister company of Google, Alphabet's Wing Aviation, just got federal approval to start using drones for commercial delivery. Amazon's own drone-delivery program is ready to launch as well. As drones take flight, the world ...
May 3, 2019
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Creating buildings with an ecological envelope
Nature in city environs has a positive effect on people's well-being. At the same time, biological diversity in urban areas continues to shrink, for example, because of increasing building density. In the Ecolopes project, ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Developing a seamless digitally networked value chain for building with pine wood
Almost 40% of global CO2 emissions are caused by the construction and building sector. When energy and building materials production are factored in, it accounts for about 28% in Germany. The German government's goal is to ...
Apr 5, 2023
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Software helps planners design walkable cities
Walkable cities reduce traffic congestion, which causes around 3.3 million deaths and $121 billion in economic losses every year. But when architects are developing pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, they often rely on trial ...
Nov 14, 2019
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Why are pedestrian traffic fatalities climbing in the US and not the rest of the world?
Between 1980 and 2010, the number of pedestrians killed in traffic dropped steadily in the United States. Then, that trend reversed. In fact, pedestrian traffic deaths reached a 40-year high in the United States in 2022.
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