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3D Printed Lampshade Collection Made from Recycled Plastic
Kisawa Sanctuary in Mozambique will be the world’s first 3D-printed resort
U of T researchers turn McDonald’s deep fryer oil into high-end 3D printing resin
3D Concrete Printing: A Step Towards Development in India
e-Waste To e-Wealth: This Togolese Tech Team Has Built Over Twenty 3D Printers From Trash
These 3D printed tiles are helping restore devastated coral reefs
Taiwan: Researchers Refine Small Wind Turbine Power Generation via 3D Printing
Sustainability in additive manufacturing?
Lung-inspired 3D printed heat exchanger could make carbon dioxide power plants a reality
3D Printed Fabric: Most Promising Projects in 2019
Made from 3D-printed sand, the hotel is minimally invasive
Purifying Water at Scale with 3D-Printed Graphene Aerogels
Nine Most Recent Posts in Environment
3D printed ‘bionic corals’ mimic a reef’s powers of photosynthesis
The mass die-off of coral reefs due is a catastrophe of global proportions, but the sheer scale of their success as organisms has lessons for science. . Case in point: these 3D-printed “bionic corals” from Cambridge researchers that are more than scaffolds for...
ORNL Scientists Make Fake Fish with 3D Printing and Sensors to Research Environmental Impact of Hydropower Dams
Hydropower – electricity generated with the energy of moving water – is the largest source of utility-scale energy storage and renewable energy in the US, making up 6% of the country’s total generation of electricity. But, developers need to research how the...
Climate Disrupted: Emergency Response
Immediately in the wake of Hurricane Maria, small communities in Puerto Rico found themselves relying on the few sites that maintained electricity after the island’s gas power plant went offline. . Local community center Casa Pueblo was able to be an “ energy oasis ”...
Using Autonomous 3D Printers to Repair Infrastructure and Environmental Deterioration
Three collaborating companies have proposed the use of autonomous 3D-printing technologies to monitor and repair the damage to buildings, coral reefs and coastlines that challenging environmental problems cause. . The Danish companies - GXN Innovation, The Danish AM...
3D Printing and Mass Customization, Hand in Glove Part III
As discussed in the first and second installments of this series, we are drifting into a consumption-driven stupor and self-medicating our way through lives that, if we live in OECD countries, use 15 tonnes of material per year. Even though some things are recycled,...
Fish Researchers use 3D printing, sensors to create models for hydropower testing
ORNL scientists are combining their expertise in environmental science, physics, sensors and additive manufacturing to create model fish for use in testing of hydropower turbine designs. The project supports healthy ecosystems and hydropower-the nation’s largest...
Holiday Resort 3D Printed with Sand
Kisawa Sanctuary is a combination of 12 one, two and three bedroom bungalows set across 300-hectares of private sanctuary beach, forest and sand dunes on Benguerra Island, Mozambique. . Kisawa has a light touch on the land but a deep engagement with nature. Each...
Waste Plastic to be Transformed into New Products
Single-use plastic will get a sustainable lease of life as part of a new project led by Manchester Metropolitan University to transform waste into valuable new products and create drive for recycled plastic materials. . Using two different innovative technologies -...
Printing the cities of the future in 3D
In light of the demographic growth depicted by these numbers and recognizing that the epicenter of human activity will move to urban centers, the urban design and technology needed to reshape the concept of city-living has a long way to go, in addition to a key...