Biomimicry’s Cool Alternative ... and up through a channel to the peak of the termite mound. The industrious termites constantly dig new vents and plug up old ones in order to regulate the ...

Pearce took that idea to his team of engineers, and they incorporated the termite mound design into the new ... human design and engineering is called biomimicry, and we’ve only just begun ...

While both solar panels and plant leaves harvest energy from the sun, a team at Princeton University took biomimicry in solar ... Mick Pearce observed a termite mound on a golf course and noted ...

Perhaps the most famous example of biomimicry when it comes to heating and cooling is ventilation inspired by termites. A few years ago, scientists observed that big termite mounds in Africa stay ...

Shinkansen bullet train in Tokyo, Japan, which was inspired by the kingfisher bird, the Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, inspired by the termite mound, are examples of Biomimicry, IIT Madras said.

According to the professors, biomimicry is the intersection of ... was inspired by the termite mound; the town of Kalundborg in Denmark practises industrial symbiosis and the wind turbine blade ...

(There are unconfirmed reports of a 42-foot mound in the Republic of Congo built by an African species known as the war-like termite!) Over tens of millions of years, termites have worked on ...

The 33 pounds (15 kilograms) or so of termites in a typical mound will, in an average year, move a fourth of a metric ton (about 550 pounds) of soil and several tons of water. The termites also ...

Biomimicry, as it’s called ... these animals build to create better life support systems for ourselves. Termites often get a bad rap because of their destructive properties.

Mound termites, native to Africa, South Asia, and Australia, are pros at building self-regulating structures that maintain oxygen levels, temperature, and humidity. And now human architects and ...