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(Via. Climate KIC – Daily Planet)
This year’s Glastonbury Festival was part powered by Pee!
In a partnership between The University of the West of England (UWE) and Glastonbury Festival, special urinals were installed in two locations – next to the Pyramid Stage and in the backstage area between the Pyramid and Other stages – and used to generate enough electricity to power a mobile phone charging station, internal lighting and information panels.
The project is part of a 5-year partnership between Glastonbury Festival and UWE in which they will work together on waste reduction and energy efficiency as well as showcasing the Pee Power technology in advance of trials in refugee camps and schools in developing countries.
You can find out more about the project and the technology it uses on the UWE web site.
(Via: Powerful Thinking)
by Paul Ducker
The world’s first electric jet has successfully completed test flights in Germany. The start-up company Lilium’s two-seater prototype, the Eagle, carried out complex manoeuvres, including its unique mid-air transfer from hover mode to wing-borne forward flight.
“We have solved some of the toughest engineering challenges in aviation to get to this point”, Lilium co-founder and CEO Daniel Wiegand said.
With the first test flights successfully completed, the Lilium team is now developing a larger, five-seater version of the Jet, designed for on-demand air taxi and ride-sharing services. The first manned flight is expected in 2019.
Read the full article from The Daily Planet on the Climate KIC web site.
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