AMANO Jun-ichi/WikimediaIn Kasukabe, Japan lies the world's biggest underground floodwater facility. Large artificial concrete caverns that compose the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, also called the G-Cans project, sprawl under the city's surface-level infrastructure.The large subterranean drainage system was developed to prevent devastating flooding of the waterways that surround the city. Because of...
The brand-new equipment could provide remote and dry regions both electricity and some water for drinking or cropsThis artist’s drawing shows what a new water- and energy-production system might look like. Its solar panels generate power as a water harvesting unit pulls moisture from the air. A roof shades irrigated crops from the hot...
A researcher at a South Korean university, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), has developed a toilet that turns human feces into energy. As a bonus incentive, it provides a small amount of digital currency to be exchanged for a cup of noodles or coffee on campus.How the "generator" that produces energy...
China has reached a new milestone in humanity's experiments to control the power of the stars.In May, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds.The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for so long...
