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Minimalists
Jan 04 2017 07:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
"Minimalist,” describes people: . . . . . . who reduce their material possessions to a minimum, and . . . . . . the proliferation of smartphones, . . . . . . sharing vehicles, and services, . . . have added impetus, to the trend of . . . “living...
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Farm Of The Future
Dec 29 2016 11:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
This Farm of the Future, . . . Uses No Soil, and . . . 95% Less Water
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Climate Change
Dec 14 2016 10:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Extreme Weather and Climate Change Jimmy Kimmel and Scientists on Climate Change
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Iceberg The Size Of Delaware
Dec 10 2016 04:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
An iceberg the size of Delaware, is starting to break away from Antarctica. . . . It began with a small crack, but has now grown to: . . . . . . 70 miles long, . . . . . . 300 feet wide, and . . . . . . 1/3 mile deep. When it reaches the edges of th...
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Rice University Art Gallery
Dec 05 2016 03:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Rice Gallery presents temporary, . . . large-scale environments, . . . that visitors can enter and explore. A simple means to dramatic effect. A single, bright light, . . . suspended from the ceiling, . . . shines through an intricately laser-cut box...
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Japan: Life With Snow
Dec 02 2016 04:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Japan: Life With Snow
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Key Glacier In Antarctica Is Cracking
Nov 30 2016 03:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
More than half of the world's freshwater is frozen in Antarctica, and . . . Scientists believe, . . . that the collapse of the Ice Sheet, . . . would lead to a sea-level rise of nearly 10 feet. "It's generally accepted, . . . that it's...
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Drastic Arctic Ice Melt
Nov 27 2016 07:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Drastic Arctic ice melt, could set off . . . 19 tipping points, from which the world may never recover. Even now the striking effects of melting Arctic ice, . . . reach as far as the Indian Ocean, and researchers say, . . . Arctic temperatures are ....
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Plaggio Buffalino: 3-Wheel Mini-Van
Nov 25 2016 08:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The fully furnished camper contains a: . . . . . . fold-up bed, . . . . . . sink, . . . . . . kitchen with . . . . . . refrigerator, . . . . . . running water, and, . . . . . . place to hook up your laptop. 11-25-2016 Source: Plaggio Buffalino: 3-whee...
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World's "building Of The Year"
Nov 23 2016 07:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Poland's National Museum in Szczecin – Dialogue Centre Przelomy, . . . has been declared the 2016 World Building of the Year. KWK Promes built the museum partly underground, . . . with a large public space atop, . . . that's popular with local...
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Battery: Lasts For Days, Charges In Seconds
Nov 23 2016 01:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
"You could charge your mobile phone in a few seconds, and . . . you wouldn't need to charge it again for over a week," . . . or home energy storage solutions, . . . that drastically reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. 11-23-2016 Source:...
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Self-Driving Vehicle
Nov 14 2016 12:45 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Self-Driving Vehicle
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From Fission To Fusion
Nov 03 2016 12:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Nuclear engineering facility, converted into . . . Solar powered skills centre. 11-3-2016 Source: from Fission to Fusion
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Educational Vision Of Ross Institute
Oct 21 2016 10:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Educational Vision of Ross Institute
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Duke Energy’S Battery-Ultracapacitor
Oct 13 2016 06:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
In North America, Duke Energy commissioned: . . . a stacked, dual application, and simultaneous use battery-ultracapacitor system. This hybrid system leverages ultracapacitors to perform, . . . solar smoothing tasks at the distribution level in real ti...
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Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy
Oct 13 2016 05:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy
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Molten Silicon-Based Energy Storage
Oct 08 2016 01:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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 electricity upon demand . . . through a therma...
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Battery "memory Effect"
Oct 07 2016 06:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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 repeatedly only partially di...
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Hydro Power Generation Plants
Oct 04 2016 06:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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 hydropower, and . . . reduce our nation’s reliance on car...
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Ultrabattery
Oct 04 2016 02:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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 areas, and . . . . . . many are not environmentally fr...
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The Foundation On Economic Trends
Sep 26 2016 09:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Impact'16 Jeremy Rifkin
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Watch The Arctic Melt
Sep 20 2016 06:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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 ice, . . . that thick mantle of shiny white stuff...
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Self-Driving Modular Car, Bus, Truck, Train
Sep 19 2016 03:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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. . . . When joined, they create an open, bus-like...
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Modular Electric Toolkit?
Sep 17 2016 11:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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 Minutes charge = 80% full, 9-17-2016 Source: Modul...
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World’S First Flatpack Truck
Sep 12 2016 05:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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 easier, and cheaper to ship. 9-12-2016 Source: World’s...
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