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Doomsday Vault

On a remote island near the North Pole, scientists have built a giant freezer designed to preserve millions of seeds in the event of a global catastrophe.

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Solar Whiz Kid

Unbelievable. William Yuan, a 12-year-old boy from Beaverton, Oregon, invented a 3D solar cell. It’s much more efficient than the 2D versions that we use nowadays in solar panels.

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• Category: Green, Innovation, Technology

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ErockIT - Half Bicycle, Half Motorbike

An interesting invention by a German. He built a special bike that runs up to 50 miles an hour, it’s electric and you have to pedal it to make its engine accelerate. Watch the video.

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• Category: Design, Green, Innovation

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Wave Power - How It Works

The power in our seas is vast - and wave power is at an innovative stage. According to government and industry figures, wave and tidal power combined could meet 12.5 per cent of today’s electricity demand - economically and practically - by 2025. Here’s a silent but informative introduction to how wave power works.

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• Category: Green, Innovation, Technology

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Wave Field - 11 Acres Of Art

For over 25 years Maya Lin has been blurring the line between art and architecture. Wave Field is an example of this. It’s an 11 acre installation which is a field with hills that are shaped like waves.

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• Category: Architecture, Art, Green

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Design By Lotte Van Laatum

Lotte‘s work focusses on the social-cultural and ecologic aspects of design. For example, the “Watt’s new?” lamp: A new energy saving lamp which uses the advantages and design freedom of the technique.

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• Category: Design, Furniture, Green

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Future Green Camper Concept

As with the original Westfalia and the hippy culture, the new Verdier Solar Power is part of a new culture with its own rituals. It is based on green energy and the pleasure to be self-sufficient. This new culture also believes that technology should allow people to understand nature and its power. The video gives you a nice overview of what this means camper-wise.

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• Category: Concepts, Green

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AltWheels Festival

Treehugger brings us a video report about the AltWheels Festival in Boston. The festival brings together a diverse array of alternative fuel vehicles and innovators for a weekend of learning, discussion, and showing off. Garage tinkerers, hybrid hackers, MIT professors, government officials and auto industry giants all play their part in moving the US towards energy independence, and Boston is the place it happens.

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• Category: Events, Green

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Tesla Roadster - Electric Sportscar

The Tesla Roadster is the first all electric vehicle with gasoline engine performance. It goes from 0-60mph in 4 seconds and it can drive 250 miles per batterycharge. It also has satnav, airconditioning and all other features that you would expect on a normal sportscar. Last Wednesday Engadget reported that the first batch of 100 Tesla Roadsters has been sold out. The future owners will receive their electric sportscar in 2007.

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• Category: Cars, Green

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Steorn - Free, Clean, Energy Technology

Steorn have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy. This means never having to recharge your phone, never having to refuel your car. A world with an infinite supply of clean energy for all.

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There are some people out there who claim that Steorn is nothing but a viral publicity stunt launched on behalf of the X-Box 360. The Wikipedia page about Steorn delivers the following ‘evidence’ for this:

- The circular logo is green, and the Xbox logo has green in it.
- An in-game screenshot used as a “stock image” on the downloads page.
- The “steorn.net” domain was only purchased in 2004.
- An anagram of “steorn” being “No Rest”.
- Massive press coverage that would prove only a liability and embarrassment for a legitimate energy company, when a failure was announced.
- Extraordinary and outlandish claims, spoken immodestly and without reservation.
- The registration page features a honeycomb stock image, in homage to the original I Love BEES viral marketing site.
- It doesn’t make sense to gather user registrations from the general public, just to release the results of a study. The results would likely be released through the same channels in which the original challenge was released. Rather, the accepting of user registrations is a ploy to keep people on-the-hook and informed when the revelation is made regarding the XBox.

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• Category: Green, Technology