A floating island city fuelled entirely by green energy
Posted by admin in Mechanical & Design Engineering, Technology, Uncategorized on 21. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
A floating island city fuelled entirely by green energy has landed a University of Portsmouth Professor of engineering a place on the shortlist of a national competition.
Student’s bright idea means solar power at night
Posted by admin in Mechanical & Design Engineering, Technology on 15. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
An engineering student may have found the Holy Grail of renewable energy and even help solve global warming as part of his final university project.
Claus Volkening, 23, of the University of Portsmouth, has designed and laboratory tested the first working small-scale model of a ‘solar updraft tower.’ It uses water storage tanks to store the sun’s energy, making clean, cheap electricity available to all, even at night.
