Teaching Children About The Environment
Monday, November 15th, 2010How can you help your children to understand the immense potential of renewable resources and being green while your child’s desire to have fun remains intact? Experiment kits, allow your children to build the project of their choosing while learning about the environment in a way that is both fun and educational. Some kits facilitate [...]
UBC Okanagan Researcher Aims To Turn Waste To Energy
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Cigdem Eskicioglu who is a professor of engineering at UBC Okanagan is aiming to turn various sources of organic waste into methane for renewable energy and as a highly usable organic fertilizer. With so many possible places to glean waste organic matter and to keep it from ending up unused and in local landfills, this [...]
Making of Solar Panels
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Solar panels have given us the ability to turn the light of our sun into usable electric energy. The construction process of a solar panel is performed either by a crystalline process or by an amorphous process. The latter being preferred for various merits to its counterpart crystalline panels. Flexibility, less fragility, and greater efficiency [...]