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#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. . . . Radiating outwards, the EMP fries electronics in sout...

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#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 lbs. https://www.youtube....h?v=hgbZTNIMn48

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#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 produce? 10-3-2017 Source: #Battery: Cheap new alloy

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#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, including: . . . . . . energy, . . . .. . capacity, a...

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#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, . . . . . . “peak-shaving,” for one hour, saved our customers...

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#autonomous Modular Vehicle Prototype

NEXT Future Transportation Inc. (“NEXT”), . . . a startup that is commercializing an . . . autonomous mass-transportation, and . . . goods-movement solution, . . . based on swarms of modular self-driving vehicles, . . .which can join and detach with ot...

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#atlantification Of The Arctic

Increasing temperatures above, and . . . warm currents from the Atlantic Ocean, . . . are snaking up to the Arctic, and . . . melting ice from below. They call this phenomenon the . . . "Atlantification of the Arctic." 4-8-2017 Source: Atlanti...

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#arctic: Record-Breaking Warmth

Though the sun hasn’t shone on the central Arctic for more than . . . 4 months, parts of the Arctic were more than . . . 50 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal. The Arctic Ocean is on track to set a new record this year, ...for the smallest extent o...

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#arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral Continues

The National Snow and Ice Data Center says there is a, . . . ~452,000-square-mile expanse of open ocean, . . . that would have been ice at this time of year, and . . . Temperatures were up to 13°F above normal, . . . along Russia’s coastal seas. 4-15-...

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#antarctica Ice Breaking Up

Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica is continuing to grow, a very large rift, . . . 180-kilometer-long iceberg maybe released, . . . which will thus represent one of the largest icebergs ever recorded. 5-4-2017 Source: #Antarctica Ice breaking up

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#amazon/whole Foods

Whole Foods has more than . . . 460 stores in the . . . . . . U.S., . . . . . . Canada, and . . . . . . U.K., generating about . . . $16 billion a year. Amazon, to acquire . . . Whole Foods, for . . . $13.7 Billion. 6-19-2017 Source: #Amaz...

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#all-Renewable Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs (GS), . . . became the first US bank, . . . to sign a large-scale, off-site renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA), . . . to enable the development of a new . . . 68 megawatt (MW) Pennsylvania wind farm. Goldman Sachs (GS), esta...

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#3D Printed: Rocket Nozzle

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is developing, a . . . 3D-printed rocket nozzle, . . . that is cheaper, and simpler in design than comparable ones, . . . yet is able to withstand extreme temperatures, and pressures. https://www.youtube....h?v=m...

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#3D Print

MIT's robo-builder, . . . designs, and prints homes, . . . in as little as 14 Hours. https://www.youtube....h?v=8zt_3Gs1ksg 4-28-2017 Source: #3D Print

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#2Nd Warmest Feb

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)says, . . . February 2017 was the 2nd warmest February in . . . 137 years of modern record-keeping, 4-11-2017 Source: #2nd Warmest Feb

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# 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 last time . . . 9 consecutive named storms hit the A...

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