Posts Tagged ‘BAS’

NRG tripling the amount of green energy at Gillette Stadium : Sports …

Gillette stadium is going green …er. The Kraft Group is teaming up with Princeton-based alternative energy company NRG to triple the amount of renewable solar power generated energy in Gillette Stadium. The NRG ..

Clever Bike Repair Station at the University of Virginia

Awesome: Tune Up Before Going to Class I stumbled on this image randomly, so I don’t have too much information about it except for what I can see. Based on the stickers, it’s a bike maintenance/repair station at the University of Virginia , and the station was put there by the sustainability program of the university (any reader going to the UV can confirm?). It’s an elegant design: Everything you need is easily accessible, including an air pump and all kinds of tools, and the anti-theft metal wires probably make it more trouble than its wo…

How to Build a Rocket Stove Water Heater (Video)

Image credit: Ecofilms Australia If you like this ingenious low-work chicken tunnel garden system , then you’ll most likely dig this footage from the same folks of a DIY water heater using rocket stove principles. Burning scraps of wood and tree prunings efficiently, this low tech design provides on-demand hot water with low emissions using basic craftsmanship and reclaimed materials. …

Hyundai to Introduce New Electric Car Brand in China

Chinese flag via Wikipedia, Hyundai logo via Hyundai More Electric Cars for China Hyundai’s been on the ascendency these past few years, and they’ve decided to create a new electric vehicle brand exclusively for the Chinese market, in collaboration with Beijing Automotive (the Chinese government usually forces companies from outside the country to form joint ventures with local companies, mostly as a way to transfer technology). Plans are to start selling the first electric car from the new brand in the first half of 2012, which means they’ve been working on it for a while, or its based on anot…