Find A Spring Locate a Spring. Not for a bed, not a season, not something to put in your step, but a real honest-to-God cool clear water spring. In your area. How cool is that? TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
Turning Air Into Water Australian engineering student/inventor Edward Linacre has created a device that draws air from the atmosphere and cools it underground to condense water for irrigation. The invention derives from biomimicry, imitating mechanically what nature demonstrates. Linacre’s invention is modeled after a hardy desert beetle. 2-minute video. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
Water Transfer Printing: You have to see it to believe it. Check out the video. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
According to Sherwin Smith, of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, complaining about water quality could be considered an act of terrorism. I guess that implies that terrorists can now stop committing all those awful crimes and simply complain about the water. That would make life a lot easier for all of us. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
CU-Boulder team develops new water splitting technique that could produce hydrogen fuel. Great idea but according to scientists it wouldn’t be cost-effective until the price of fossil fuels goes way up. Wouldn’t you think we humans could figure out a better metric than superficial dollar cost to promote smarter technologies that didn’t hurt the environment? […]
The spiral pump. A high lift, slow turning pump that I didn’t know existed. This article provides drawings and data about these simple pumps which would make it fairly easy to make your own. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
MIT engineers have created a new polymer film that can generate electricity by drawing on a ubiquitous source: water vapor. They think they have found a way to give robots muscles, or the equivalent. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
What floats your boat? In the Caribbean it looks like nothing at all. Beautiful photographs of boats on crystal clear water. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious