#nuclear Disaster Vs Climate Change
What does 9 trillion gallons of water feel like, . . . that hydraulic cube over downtown Houston, . . . 4 miles square, and 2 miles high. And then the cube doubled, . . . to become the most extreme...
View Article#batteries: Save Money
Giant batteries, . . . help renewable energy grow, . . . in New England. Grid-scale batteries can serve many functions: . . . . . . Stabilize the electric frequency at 60 hertz per second, . . . . . ....
View Article#hurricane's Vs Energy Resiliency
Houston, H-E-B stores microgrids and storage: . . . . . . not only keep their own lights on, . . . . . . but, provided emergency food, . . . . . . mobile kitchens, and . . . . . . other emergency...
View Article#book: Solutionary Rail
Electrifying the US rail system, . . . Installing electrical transmission lines alone railroad right of ways, . . . that serve to transport electricity from capillary generation sources to: . . . ....
View Article#batteries: Stacking Energy Storage Values
Most of the existing energy storage research, . . . focuses only on isolated applications of batteries. The economists identified costs for utilities, and others, . . . to acquire certain services,...
View Article#blackout: What If America Lost Electricity?
What would happen if America lost electricity, . . . for a long period of time. Hurricane, Hackers, Solar Flare, or imagine a . . . Nuclear blast, occurring somewhere above eastern Nebraska. . . ....
View Article#refugee: Cheap Tramsportation
Problem: There are 200 million urbanized refugees in South Asia, . . . who can’t access resources like: . . . . . . markets, . . . . . . schools, . . . . . . hospitals, and . . . . . . places of...
View Article# 9 Storms Hit The Atlantic
US territories, have never before been hit by . . . 3, category 4 storms, . . . in one season, and As Colorado State University meteorologist . . . Philip Klotzbach noted on Twitter this weekend, the...
View Article#germany: Self-Driving Minibus
EZ10, . . . A self-driving minibus: . . . . . . seat's 6 people, . . . . . . speed 9.3 mph, https://vimeo.com/137217228 . . . going between the: . . . . . . train station, . . . . . . town center, and...
View Article#what Really Matters?
When: . . . . . . fire, . . . . . . flood, or . . . . . . fierce winds, are barreling toward your home, . . . it is striking how material possessions cease to matter. . . . Items that were once prized...
View Article#power-Failure: Wind Storm
We have been without electric power for 3 days. . . . No: Water (from our well pump) . . . . . . Showers, . . . . . . Instant tea, Coffee, soup . . . . . . Washers dish, clothing . . . . . . Flushing...
View Article#battery: Cheap New Alloy
Could a new tin-aluminum alloy, make Lithium-ion batteries: . . . . . . Lighter, . . . . . . more compact, . . . . . . able to hold more energy, . . . . . . cheaper, and . . . . . . faster to...
View ArticleKiss Your #car Goodbye!
Bob Lutz, former vice chairman, and . . . head of product development at General Motors, says, . . . It saddens me to say it, . . . but we are approaching the end of the automotive era. The end state...
View ArticleMega-#iceberg Breaks Off
In July, . . . one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, a . . . 2,300 mi² chunk of ice, that represented . . . 10% of the total ice shelf, . . . broke off from Antartica’s Larsen C ice shelf....
View Article#emergency Shelter
Project Ground-up, . . . attempts to provide all basic amenities, . . . within a small house-footprint, and . . . building a community around the construction of the house, . . . with a village...
View ArticleTiny #home: Expanding/contracting
Movable Steel Book Shelves, are the secret, . . . which conceals many different living spaces, . . . that use the least amount of floor space, Washing: the first 3 sections are immobile, . . . located...
View Article#bicycle Cargo Transport
By combining the handling and transport, . . . BicyLift, reduce's the impact of transloading, . . . for a fully efficient last mile delivery ! BicyLift weight's 55 lbs, and . . . can carry up to 400...
View Article#electric Cargo Ship: Transports Coal?
China, . . . launches World’s First "All-Electric Cargo Ship," and . . . will use it to haul . . . Coal? It will lower the cost of transportation for bulk cargoes, . . . because the price of...
View ArticleThe Duck Curve
If you draw a curve, . . . that represents the demand for electricity over the course of a 24 hour day, . . . the shape resembles a duck. The duck curve has become more pronounced lately, . . . in...
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