GeoIsla

Sunrgi, a Hollywood-based start-up, came out of stealth mode this week claiming it can collect twice as much sunlight as other photovoltaic designs and convert it to electricity for 5 cents a kilowatt-hour, on par with fossil fuels.
The company’s core technology is concentrating solar power, which uses lenses to focus sunlight onto small strips of [...]

By Alexis Madrigal 03.18.08 | 8:45 PM

Engineers Malcolm Knapp and Heather Fleming helped design a low-cost turbine that will be deployed in the rural areas surrounding Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second largest city.
Photo courtesy Jim Merithew/Wired.com
A group of volunteer engineers are finishing the design for a home-brewed wind turbine that will bring electricity to [...]

Javier Blanco rescató cientos de cuerdas de terreno que de otra manera hubieran sucumbido al desarrollo acelerado.

Foto por Tito Guzmán
Carmen Dolores Hernández / Especial para El Nuevo Día
Como director del Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico, desde que se constituyó en el 1968 hasta hace unos años, el arquitecto Javier Blanco rescató cientos de cuerdas [...]

From MoCo Loco:
We often get books by mail at MoCo Loco, but today we got one via email, the “First Paperless Architecture Book EVER: Piel”. Piel.Skin is the culmination of two years of architectural research into dynamic facades, ventilated, high-tech or traditional composites with new features. “This book shows that currently new skins not only [...]

Vea la infográfica.
La planta empleará a 90 personas en Barceloneta e inyectará $40 millones a la economía.
Por Marie Custodio Collazo / mcustodio@elnuevodia.com
La necesidad es la madre de la invención, y para dos empresas boricuas el alto costo de la electricidad ha sido la oportunidad perfecta para aventurarse a ensamblar en la Isla un sistema de [...]