Angry junta interrogators say solar powered testicle electrodes are 'unsustainable'

Huawei Solar Powered base Station

Not fit for torture

It's green correctness gone mad, complained Yu Wan Sum Pal, one of the most respected members of North Korea's torturer community, as he waited for a solar panel to deliver its payload to a cowering pensioner.

Phone companies slash carbon footprint with green phone solution

Paul Phillips

Green phones

Avaya and this year's favourite technology partner, Extreme Networks, have launched green telephony solutions that save as much as 75 per cent of the energy normally burnt keeping phone systems going.


New fuel cells double efficiency

Fuel Cell Bus

Kyocera at it again

Nippon Oil is among the developers - including BT and BP- testing a new type of residential fuel cell that has 25 per cent higher generation efficiency than current offerings, the New Energy Foundation told Ecological-IT on Monday.

Free energy: is it as bogus as a BBC competition winner?

Isolationism

Myth-placed enthusiasm?

Steorn made headlines around the world when it claimed to have developed a device that produced "free energy".
Throughout early July, the company planned to display the device to the public for the first time.

Professor Sir Eric Ash, electrical engineer and former rector of Imperial College London, visited the demonstration for the Ecological-IT.

A Vibrator could be just the tonic for patients with irregular heart beats

Generator for Heart Monitors

Micro generator powered by vibrations

A tiny generator powered by natural vibrations could soon be helping keep heart pacemakers working.
Created by scientists at the University of Southampton, UK, the generator has been developed to power devices where replacing batteries is very difficult.