Generating electricity with rice straw
Phys.org - Fri 8 Feb 19Rice straw is the waste product of growing rice. Normally, it is simply burned adding sooty pollution to the local air and nudging up atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. What if there were a ...
Fighting 'all you can eat' waste
BBC News - Fri 8 Feb 19The UN wants to halve the amount of food we waste. Here's how one hotel in Norway is helping out.
Material made from citrus fruit peel could help clean up oil spills
Newscientist - Wed 6 Feb 19Pomelo peels have been ground down and turned into an aerogel – one of the lightest materials in the world – that could be used to clean up oil spills
A new 3-D printing technique creates solid objects using rays of light
The Washington Post - Tue 5 Feb 19A team of California researchers have unveiled a 3D printer that can carve objects out of a synthetic resin using patterns of light. The machine is nicknamed 'the replicator' after a fictional ...
New 3D-printing tech gets smooth results using light and resin
New Atlas - Fri 1 Feb 19Currently, most 3D printers work by either depositing or melting building material in successive layers. Unfortunately, this results in the finished objects looking kind of chunky, as ...
Watch this super-speedy 3D printer make objects suddenly appear
MIT Technology Review - Thu 31 Jan 19Using light projected into resin, it creates solid objects all in one go, rather than in layers.
New 3-D printer shapes objects with rays of light
TechXplore - Thu 31 Jan 19A new 3-D printer uses light to transform gooey liquids into complex solid objects in only a matter of minutes.
New 3D printer uses rays of light to shape objects, transform product design, Science Blog - Fri 1 Feb 19New 3D printer shapes objects with rays of light, ScienceDaily - Thu 31 Jan 19
New Star Trek-like ‘Replicator’ Prints 3D Objects With Light
Extremetech - Mon 4 Feb 19Researchers from the University of California Berkeley have developed a technique that can create objects in a single step using light. They call it "The Replicator," a reference to the essentially ...
This light-powered 3D printer materializes objects all at once
TechCrunch - Fri 1 Feb 193D printing has changed the way people approach hardware design, but most printers share a basic limitation: they essentially build objects layer by layer, generally from the bottom up. This ...
Star Trek-inspired device 3D-prints objects with rays of light
ZME Science - Fri 1 Feb 19Unlike other printers, the device makes objects in one piece.
Scientists recreate tiny version of Rodin’s Thinker using 3D method
Daily Mail - Fri 1 Feb 19Called computed axial lithography, the process is faster and more detailed than traditional methods of 3D printing, which build items layer by layer.
'Replicator' 3D printer uses light to create structures in one piece
Engadget - Fri 1 Feb 19A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have unveiled a 3D printer that uses light to create an entire object at once. It's called the Replicator, ...
Scientists build a 3D printer that turns goo into solid objects - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Fri 1 Feb 19"The Replicator" uses light to transform liquids into 3D objects in a matter of minutes.
Printer uses light to carve 3D sculptures out of liquid
Chemistry World - Thu 31 Jan 19CAT scan-inspired printer produces whole objects in seconds
Bottle recycling in Oregon hits 90 percent record high
Inhabitat - Thu 7 Feb 19Oregon is seeing record-breaking recycling rates for their progressive movement dating back to 1971. As the first state in the nation to initiate a bottle return bill, residents of the west ...
This chair made from ocean waste hints at the furniture of the future
Fastcompany Tech - Mon 4 Feb 19It’s not just recycled plastic–it’s local recycled plastic, and it’s beautiful. The chair is a stunner. It’s a deep emerald green, with luxurious swirls of ...
Light based 3D printer shapes custom objects from liquid resin
The Engineer - Fri 1 Feb 19A 3D printing technique that uses patterns of light to transform viscous liquids into solid objects has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley Hayden Taylor, ...
Expert panel defers clearance to Andamans resort project
The Hindu - Wed 6 Feb 19‘It doesn’t account for the biodiversity of the islands’ coast’