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Plastic Eating Bacteria
Bacteria helping the environment? Introduce a certain kind of bacteria into a landfill and it will literally eat the plastic in it, reducing the size of industrial waste big time.
The Green Cell Phone
A cell phone using mostly biodegradable pieces. How does that sound? It sounds and looks like a cell phone. It‘s called the “Green Cell Phone” but color and style options are still up to you.
Battery Disposal
Where best to dispose of our dead batteries then at a grocery store that actually has a disposal battery bin, preventing toxic leakage everywhere. Why didn‘t anyone think of this before?
Home Comfort System
Here‘s a cost effective and efficient way to use air conditioning. By creating a system that knows the temperature outside it automatically adjusts to what you need inside. Talk about a cool idea.
Heat-Island Generator
Is it possible to heat an entire office by generating heat from a device that is hot on one side and cold on the other? Of course! Why else would this be one of our winners?
Energy from highways
More cars on the road can actually help the environment by generating so much wind they create huge amounts of power. Put this power through a pipeline and cities can share natural energy.a
Mobile Motion Power
Imagine harnessing everyday human motion to power mobile devices such as cell phones and iPods.
Solar Power Lines
Put solar panels on power lines already heated by the sun and just imagine the energy created through those main lines. Now that’s a bright idea.
Super Trees
Step 1: Isolate the genes from plants that most quickly use carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. Step 2: Splice that DNA into other plants. The result: Our planet life will be more diverse and we’ll breathe easier.
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