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$5m Govt Investment in Biomimetic Wave Energy Project
Great news for this Australian developer of bio-inspired power generation systems: SYDNEY, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Ocean energy company, BioPower Systems (BPS), today announced that the Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, the Hon. Michael O’Brien MP, has awarded the company conditional funding support of $5 million under the Sustainable Energy Pilot Demonstration Program. The funding will be […]
14 Best Inventions Using Biomimicry in 2011
Turning Cities Into Living Organisms
Another good post in FastCompany’s Biomimicry – Nature of Innovation series: When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that automatically know when it will rain and react accordingly. Continued at FastCompany.
Dr Dayna Baumeister Plenary at 2011 Bioneers
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Researchers Take Advice From Carnivorous Plant
Cambridge, Mass. – September 21, 2011 – After a rain, the cupped leaf of a pitcher plant becomes a virtually frictionless surface. Sweet-smelling and elegant, the carnivore attracts ants, spiders, and even little frogs. One by one, they slide to their doom. Adopting the plant’s slick strategy, a group of applied scientists at Harvard […]