67 years ago the city of Nagasaka in Japan was destroyed by an atomic bomb, three days after another bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima. Tomihisa Taue, Nagasaki’s current mayor, was born in 1956 and he remembers the eyewitness accounts of...
Author - Antonio Pasolini
Recently we blogged about a project by the Kyoto Journal called Fresh Currents, a magazine designed to offer thinking fodder for post-nuclear disaster Japan. The idea of the magazine is to dispel myths about nuclear power and to take a fresh look at...
A company called ECOmove is hoping to make a dent on the electric vehicle (EV) market in Denmark with a new model called QBEAK. The car is being pitched as a city, company, family car, and even a van. QBEAK is due out in the fourth quarter of...
For now it is just an idea but, as an idea, it is brilliant. Designers Ryan Lynch and Marcus Triest are creating the Solar Bag which uses a method known as solar water disinfection to purify the stuff that is so rare in some parts of the...
In the search for more efficient solar cells, UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that points towards the age when windows could become small solar energy farms without blocking the view. They have developed a new kind of...
