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Share on email At first glance, "Starpath" seems to be an urban park mounted on Christ's Pieces in Cambridge, England.  However, this is the first bike in the world that benefits through the materials with which it was made, not only cyclists, but pedestrians, the environment and the municipality where it is located.   More details to follow. The main element that makes up the "Starpath" is a liquid applied on its surface which, during the day, absorbs UV rays and at night, emits light.  One of the creators of this idea, Hamish Scott, Office  Pro-Teq  , explains that this bike works as if it had "  a mind of its own "because the intensity of light changes depending on the levels of natural light available in the environment.  Thus, the more intense glow is emitted during the night when there is less natural light. The bike path was built in Cambridge Park covers 150 m² and it worked as planned, helping to reduce accidents with...

Clean Power Published on  March 24th, 2013 |  by Zachary Shahan 11 India’s Solar Canals Reposted from Solar Love : I recently ran across this awesome image  from Greenpeace International  over on Google+: Luckily, the Google+ share also included a link to an Indian business site that had more details.  The Hindu Business Line  writes : Close on heels of commencing use of wastelands in northern districts and rooftops in towns and cities, Gujarat is set to potentially use the existing 19,000 km-long network of Narmada canals across the State for setting up solar panels to generate power. The Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, will inaugurate the first of a series of this project, known as Canal Solar Power Project, when he launches a 1 megawatt (mw) pilot project, which is already commissioned, on Narmada branch canal near Chandrasan village of Kadi taluka in Mehsana district on Tuesday.   However, this can’t be new, since the dat...

Odysseus , an autonomous surveillance-plane concept, 
 will fly for years on end, powered by nothing but the sun By Kara Platoni Posted 06.22. Nine days: That's the longest any airplane has stayed in the air. Burt and Dick Rutan's Voyager set the record in 1986 by flying 24,986 miles around the world without refueling. But nine days of uninterrupted flight won't cut it for Darpa, the Pentagon's advanced-research organization. It's challenged the aviation industry to come up with an unmanned surveillance and communications plane that can circle targets for half a decade — and do so on nothing but solar power. The aircraft you see here, Odysseus , was the first entry in the Vulture program, the competition Darpa created to make its extreme-endurance dreams come true. If the plane's designers at Aurora Flight Sciences beat rival entries by Boeing and Lockheed — Darpa could pick a winner as early as this year — it will have the opportunity to make ...

Which technologies will finally free us from oil? This December, when representatives from 170 countries meet at the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen to replace the expiring Kyoto climate treaty, the smart money predicts unprecedented collaboration. American political change coupled with spiking carbon dioxide levels could inspire a communal project on a scale not seen since World War II. A consensus, backed by science, is emerging among the international community that by 2050 we need to reduce emissions of C02, methane and other greenhouse gases to approximately 80 percent lower than they were in 1990. It will mean a wholesale reinvention of the global energy economy; anything less could result in catastrophe. Here's how we'll get there. To reach this goal will require a two-pronged approach . First, we have to get serious about the small stuff: better insulation, tossing the incandescent lightbulbs and, yes, inflating our tires all the way. Second, we need to scal...