The kettle is not something I would have thought to be a big energy user, on the contrary, all that heating can take up a lot of power!

Ordinary kettles generally boil twice the amount of water that we need; with a 3KW kettle that can mean wasting the energy of around 50 lightbulbs!

Enter the ECO kettle, while there’s not a lot we can do to reduce the energy consumption (heat is heat, and it’s energy expensive!) the ECO kettle can at least help to reduce waste. If you’re only making one cup of coffee, for example, it wastes a lot of energy to heat up and entire kettle-full.

The eco kettle helps reduce waste by allowing you to boil the exact amount of water you need. It has two water compartments, one for storage, and the other for boiling. It allows you to release an exact amount of water from storage to boil.

This means you’re only using as much energy as you need to heat nly the amount of water you’re using. Pretty cool!

via Alternative Consumer

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Well, although I hardly call vaporizing every living creature in the area eco-friendly, it seems the newest generation of super-explosives is at least trying to minimize it’s long-term impact.

It’s called a vacuum bomb. Same gigantic explosion, same loss of life, but no lasting radiation.

It’s non-nuclear.

Russia was the first to test this sort of bomb, although I doubt it will be long before the US military catches up. It’s the start of a non-nuclear arms race. Fears over nuclear winters and destroying our plant seems to have effectively snuffed out nuclear explosives. Not ready to give up blowing the shit out of eachother however, it seems they’ve just found a slightly less harmful way to do it.

Maybe this is what they call the dark of green technology…

via Keetsa Blog

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So if you’re reading this blog you no doubt have all your old lightbulbs replaced with those new cool compact-florescent lights, right?

Good for you! Now you can decorate your house with those old bulbs. Check these sculptures out!

Each are made with old lightbulbs, and have a strang, almost futuristic look to them.

Great use of the old technology!

Now if you havn’t traded in your old bulbs for CFLs, get to it!

via Keetsa! Blog

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I don’t know what to say about this product other than “that’s freakin cool!”

This is Nick Foley’s “Pear Light”. It’s an LED lamp, but it’s no ordinary, super-efficient, run-of-the-mill LED lamp. It’s kind of a… tree lamp.

The lamp is modern looking, but organic and tree-like with it’s various branches. Those glowing orbs in the picture are the LEDs.

…but they’re no normal LEDs.

These are removable, rechargable LEDS. The lamp serves as a charging station for these lights which get brighter on the tree as they charge. These pear-like lights connect magnetically, when they’re charged you can remove them and move them around the house.

It’s like picking light off a tree.

via TreeHugger

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The UK defense firm Qinetiq has developed an unmanned, solar powered plane which has just broke the world record for the longest unmanned flight.

The plane, named Zephyr stayed in the air for 54 hours, smashing the previous record of 30.
It uses only solar power to stay aloft and the self-recharging system which was the trick to the long flight.

I’m sure you’ve heard by now how bad airplanes are on emissions, but the super-sonic engines used by the military seem like they’d be much worse.

Could the entire military one day be solar powered? This is the first step..

According to a BBC report today, a UK defense firm called Qinetiq has developed and tested a lightweight, solar-powered plane which has just broken the world record for longest unmanned flight. The plane, known as the Zephyr, spent 54 hours in flight using only self-recharging solar power, thus breaking the 30-plus-hour flight of the previous record holder, the US Air Force’s Global Hawk surveillance craft. Although the record has been smashed, the plane won’t be eligible for entrance into the “official” record books due to a late announcement of the feat, though another 33-hour flight might make the cut. The plane — which has a wingspan of 59-feet — is controlled from the ground after a hand liftoff, and is capable of cruising at 58,000 feet. According to the designers, the Zephyr is, “Going to go a lot higher and a lot further,” and added that, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Indeed, ICEMAN, indeed. - Engadget

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