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London's Bird Street was transformed into a platform for a retail experience driven solely by sustainable technologies called the 'Smart Street' initiative on Thursday. Not only will the pavement generate electricity with every pedestrian footstep, the benches have air purifiers installed that actively clean the air. Even the paint plays a role in clearing up the air in the surrounding area, using a special chemical process to purify the atmosphere.
This array of 149 Xenon short-arc lamps is called Synlight, and it's designed to be an artificial sun. Invented by the German Aerospace Centre, or DLR, Synlight can produce up to 10,000 times the intensity of natural sunlight experienced on Earth. Researchers and scientists turned on their machine for Ruptly in Juelich on Monday. The Synlight array measures 45 by 52 feet but all the powerful bulbs are designed to concentrate their light radiation on a small space which measures just 8 inches by 8 inches. Its inventors claim that the synthetic sun can generated temperatures up to 3000 degrees Celsius and beyond. Synlight was created with a specific purpose in mind. Hydrogen fuel, considered by many to be the fuel of the future because it emits no carbon when burned, is derived by breaking water down into its base atoms. However, this process requires a huge amount of heat energy. Synlight is meant to power the reaction to obtain hyrdogen fuel in a way that uses as little fossil fuels as possible. The high power array also has potential uses in other fields as well, including scientific research and commercial applications which require an intense source of heat. The project cost about 3.5 million euro to buid, funding which was provided by the German government and automaker BMW.
We use energy with every step we take, so why not convert that energy into electricty? Electric floor system Pavegen aims to do just that. The innovative company showcased their unique step-to-electricty floor coating, called the V3 Pavegen, at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas on Sunday. A Pavegen smartphone app will track the distance and time the user takes to walk on the floor and the amount of energy they generate. The V3 Pavegen smart floor cover has already been tested on the streets of Washington DC and in some major London shopping centres.
Abdulaziz bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's energy minister, Alexander Novak, Russian deputy prime minister in charge of energy, Suhail Mohammed Al Mazrouei, energy minister of the United Arab Emirates and Haitham al-Ghais, Secretary General of OPEC arrive at the OPEC+ meeting in Vienna, expected to agree on major production cuts to prop up prices. IMAGES
The Saudi Minister of Energy, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, arrives at his hotel in Vienna on the eve of an OPEC+ meeting, the first in-person meeting at the group's headquarters since March 2020. IMAGES
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