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View ArticleShishmaref, Alaska: 400 Yr Old Village
600 people reside in Shishmaref, threatened by rising sea levels, . . . they had to decide whether to stay in the village, . . . their ancestors have called home for around 400 years, or relocate. The...
View ArticleEarth: Hottest Temperatures On Record
NASA’ says, . . . the world is heating up, . . . at a rate that hasn’t occurred, within the past . . . 1,000 years, and will continue . . . 20 times faster than the historical average, over the next...
View ArticleElon Musk: Fossil Fuels Dependence
Elon Musk on the stupidity of fossil fuels dependence
View ArticleSpacex Explosion
SpaceX explosion, . . . takes out Facebook's multi-million dollar satellite SpaceX was testing an unmanned rocket, . . . in preparation for a launch on Saturday, . . . an explosion erupted sending a...
View ArticleOklahoma: Earthquake Felt In 7 States
5.6 magnitude earthquake prompted state regulators to shut down . . . 37 wastewater-disposal wells produced from fracking. 9-5-2016 Source: Oklahoma: Earthquake Felt in 7 States
View ArticleTibet: Ice Melting
130 million cubic yards of ice and rock suddenly let go from a glacier in Tibet. 9-8-2016 Source: Tibet: Ice melting
View ArticleWorld’S First Flatpack Truck
Gordon Murray, designed the flat-pack truck, called the OX. . . . A 40-foot shipping container can hold: . . . . . . 2 assembled trucks, or . . . . . . 6 flat-packed trucks, . . . that makes them...
View ArticleModular Electric Toolkit?
Volkswagen’s Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB), . . . 2 Electric Motors, drives its respective axle, . . . Battery, large flat 101 kWh between axles, . . . Range, 373 miles per electric charge, . . . 15...
View ArticleSelf-Driving Modular Car, Bus, Truck, Train
Next, is an advanced smart transportation system, . . . based on swarms of modular self-driving vehicles, designed in Italy. Each module can join, and detach with other modules, on standard city roads....
View ArticleWatch The Arctic Melt
The Arctic is the fastest-warming region of our planet today, . . . heating up at roughly twice the globally-averaged rate. . . . And nothing illustrates the north pole’s hot flash as poignantly as sea...
View ArticleThe Happiest Song In The World?
According to a group of researchers at the University of Missouri, . . . the happiest song in the world is, . . . ”Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen. Can you think of a Happier Song? 9-20-2016 Source: The...
View ArticleUltrabattery
Batteries pack a lot of energy into a small space, but they’re: . . . . . . Slow to charge, . . . . . . Lose their capacity after several charge-discharge cycles, . . . . . . maybe dangerous in wet...
View ArticleHydro Power Generation Plants
In the U.S..A., there are . . . 80,000 dams, and . . . 97% do not produce electricity. Cube Hydro acquires, and modernizes hydroelectric facilities, . . . to demonstrate the value of renewable...
View ArticleBattery "memory Effect"
What is the "Memory Effect" that I have heard about? NiCad batteries, and to a lesser extent NiMH batteries, . . . suffer from what's called the "memory effect". What this means is that if a battery is...
View ArticleMolten Silicon-Based Energy Storage
Molten silicon which is the most abundant element in Earth's crust, . . . may provide low cost solar thermal energy, . . . in which sunlight is stored as heat, and . . . then the energy is converted to...
View ArticleDuke Energy’S Battery-Ultracapacitor
In North America, Duke Energy commissioned: . . . a stacked, dual application, and simultaneous use battery-ultracapacitor system. This hybrid system leverages ultracapacitors to perform, . . . solar...
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