Electricity Free Refrigeration – A Summer Experiment?
Hey, you there – ASIC student. At the beginning of this term, you were probably thinking, “Now, what do I need thermodynamics for? How will thermodynamics…
Read articleWhat Google Earth Revealed
Two years later in an ergonomic chair I flew across the screen to gaze again at the blur where I had lived. Two eyes disunbelieving: the…
Read articleDunnnnn dundun dunnn: The Carbon Hero! -or- Re-imagining Your Carbon Footprint in Real-Time
Talking about carbon credits, carbon footprints, or carbon taxes is a complex process. Most people don’t have an intuitive sense of what carbon dioxide is, what…
Read articleAlternative Alternative Transportation
16 year old Marco Facciola built a bicycle made entirely out of wood: His inspiration: This project came to mind as I was reflecting on the…
Read articleMonodo Spider
Pictured here is Mondo Spider with Daisy — the giant solar-powered tricycle — in the background. As part of Engineering week at UBC, you may have…
Read articleBuy Your Very Own Robot Army
These are cool: HEXBUG feels its way around sensing objects in its path and avoiding them. And they can hear! You control where they scurry through…
Read articleServer Farms vs Your Desktop PC – The Internet’s Carbon Footprint
[a server farm…please refrain from server tipping – source] “The internet is the fastest growing source of CO2 to the atmosphere…it doubled from 2002 to 2006.”…
Read articleAbsolutely Amusing Amusement Devices – aka – The Ball-Coaster!
Patents are great: they provide a unique look at both the scientific and sociological context of a given time, by way of the problems being solved,…
Read articleHappy New Year! (and keeping it real…)
What better way to keeping it real than showcasing a talk that discusses ways the Earth could end? This one is aptly titled, “10 ways the…
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China, India, Nigeria: “We Don’t Want Your Electronic Garbage”
By Dave Semeniuk,
Recently, I stumbled across a number of interesting articles concerning the growing export of electronic waste (and all the accompanying nastiness) to the third world. A…
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