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10 Inventions to Save Earth’s Water

With drought looming in California, but in many regions of the world include Yemen, Green Prophet honors Earth Day by digging into the archives...

Futuristic dome collectors collect dew for drinking water and crops

Still another device, called the Roots Up Dew Collector, is now being developed for Ethiopia in a project together with the University of Gondar. The device, which can also be used to grow vegetables and other crops, is dew trapping and will be used in the country's arid northern regions.

Heat hackers breach computer systems by “breathing” data whispers

How can the environment around computers be used to hack data? Computer scientists have now determined that it's possible to send data or "steal"...

Pee Power is making energy from urine in Africa

It's already well known that manure or poop can be recycled for making products like paper as well as creating biogas power from methane gas.  Turning...

Thermo-piezoelectric tires by Goodyear produces energy for your electric car

Like Israel's Softwheel for wheelchairs and bikes, Goodyear is asking: Can new ways of engineering tires extend the cruising ranges of electric cars to...

Sensilize delivers chemistry lab by drone to the farmer’s field

Drones, those small, unmanned remote controlled airplanes with cameras can now be ordered by anyone online. They freak some people out. Not everyone loves...

10 Food Tech startups worth putting on your plate

Food Tech, on the surface of things, sounds like something you might not want to bite into, especially if you practice permaculture and organic...

Storm mappers chase after patterns for climate change

The Doomsday Clock, which measures the likelihood of global catastrophe, last month ticked a minute closer to "midnight" — the apocalypse. The symbolic clock...

WaterGen gadget pulls drinking water from thin air

Finding ways to augment supplies of fresh drinking water have been around for years. These ideas vary from basic "low tech" ones like a...

Graphene nanotechnology makes desalination 100 times more efficient

Engineers at Lockheed-Martin recently developed and patented a molecular filtration membrane called Perforene which can desalinate seawater using only 1/100th the energy of the...

Aora’s solar tulips start shining in Ethiopia, without water!

Investments in solar energy innovations are not dead! Remember those weird and wonderful solar energy harvesting tulips planted in Israel and Spain? Seen miles...

Save energy, stress and greenhouse gas by backing up

You know you should have done it. The DropBox folder is there, the extra hard drive is on the shelf. Hey, your partner even...

How your DNA has evolved with parasites

Parasites need to adapt to continue living off their hosts. Almost every type of organism on earth faces parasitism, including us humans. Ecologists have...

Hat’s off to Israel’s LifeBeam for wearable tech

Research and development focused on the aerospace industry has spawned dozens of designs useful in everyday life. Now LifeBeam, an Israeli company that designs high-end...

Agrolan agtech company goes to the worms

Those of you who grew up in countries blessed with ample fresh water supplies may have fond memories of going fishing as a child...

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Ukrainian design studio Pilsok, known for its popular Beetle backpack, transforms discarded car airbags into a striking designer jacket honouring Ukraine's emergency rescuers.

PeaceTech is the next CleanTech. And we’ve been building it for decades.

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China brings back battery swapping for electric trucks. Remember Shai Agassi and Better Place? We do

CATL is building thousands of battery-swap stations for electric trucks. Can China succeed where Israel's $850 million Better Place experiment failed?

Rainwater nowhere is safe to drink

As winter rains approach the Middle East, scientists warn that PFAS forever chemicals contaminate rainwater worldwide, even in Antarctica.

Elon Musk’s flying Tesla Roadster is here. My 13-year-old son thinks it’s the future

My 13-year-old son told me about Elon Musk's flying Tesla Roadster while we were hiking. Could flying electric cars transform our cities, reduce roads and make more room for trees?
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