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Self-Driving Buses

Sep 08 2016 02:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

3D printed, self driving minibus Helsinki: Self-driving buses

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Tibet: Ice Melting

Sep 08 2016 12:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

130 million cubic yards of ice and rock suddenly let go from a glacier in Tibet. 9-8-2016 Source: Tibet: Ice melting

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Oklahoma: Earthquake Felt In 7 States

Sep 05 2016 01:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

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

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Spacex Explosion

Sep 01 2016 05:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

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 dark plume of smoke into the air. . . ."Buil...

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Elon Musk: Fossil Fuels Dependence

Sep 01 2016 12:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Elon Musk on the stupidity of fossil fuels dependence

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Earth: Hottest Temperatures On Record

Aug 30 2016 10:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

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 . . . 100 years. 8-30-2016 Source: Earth: Hotte...

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Shishmaref, Alaska: 400 Yr Old Village

Aug 18 2016 05:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

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 barrier island village is finding it harder, and h...

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Did You Know?

Aug 13 2016 02:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Why Every World Map You've Ever Read is Wrong https://www.youtube....h?v=S3R-rP8dawM History of the World: Every Year https://www.youtube....h?v=ymI5Uv5cGU4

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"best Mile" & "next" Team Up

Aug 08 2016 10:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

BestMile, and . . . Next Future Transportation, . . . have formed a strategic partnership, . . . to offer an on-demand, and . . . modular autonomous transport system. Each module can fit, . . . 10 passengers (6 seated, and (4 standing. baby Carriage o...

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The World's First 3D-Printed Self-Driven Bus

Aug 06 2016 02:15 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

The World's first 3D-printed self-driven bus

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New Graphene Supercapacitor

Aug 04 2016 03:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

A new supercapacitor, promises: . . . . . . eco-friendly, . . . . . . cheap, . . . . . . fast-charging, and . . . . . . ever-lasting lithium ion batteries. Han Lin, an Australian researcher at the Swinburne University, . . . managed to do exactly this...

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"solo" (Electric Car)

Aug 03 2016 12:20 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

Canadian, Electra Meccanica's, "Solo" (Electric Car) . . . . . . one passenger, . . . . . . 3 wheels, . . . . . . chassis, carbon fiber composite, . . . . . . Speed, zero to 60MPH in 8 seconds, . . . . . . Top Speed, 80 MPH, . . . . . . Ran...

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World’S Smartest Computer Is Driving Buses

Aug 02 2016 11:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

IBM'S “Watson,” (The World’s Most Intelligent Computer), and . . . Local Motors "Olli," (on-demand, self-driving, 3D-printed, electric buses) . . . are NOW running on the roads of Washington DC, . . . carrying up to 12 passengers. 8-2-2...

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Solar: This Changes Everything

Jul 28 2016 08:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Solar: This changes everything.

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Solar Power, Must Decarbonize Power Sector

Jul 27 2016 07:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Jenny Nelson, physics professor, Imperial College of London, . . . who researches on materials used for solar cells, said: . . . "Solar power is critical to decarbonize the power sector. . . . Although the demand for crystalline silicon for photo v...

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Huc: What Is A Smart Village?

Jul 27 2016 06:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

The University of Cambridge, . . . Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and . . . KS Sriram of Mesha Inc, a technology solutions partner . . . are collaborating to make a village, energy-efficient through a micro-grid. The village has a school, and a h...

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Energy: Whose Wasting It?

Jul 24 2016 07:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Energy: Whose wasting it? https://flowcharts.l...rgy_US_2015.png

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Water: Whose Wasting It?

Jul 23 2016 11:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Can you guess, Whose the biggest user of Water? . . . The single largest usage of water is . . . Non-Renewable Thermo-Electric Cooling 7-23-2016 Source: Water: Whose wasting it?

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Global Temperatures: New Record Year

Jul 20 2016 02:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

"It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, . . . but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past 6 months, . . . have been even more extreme. This warmth as well as unusual weather patterns, . . . have led to the record...

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Mit's Swarm Chip Architecture

Jul 04 2016 04:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

SWARM (a new chip design developed at MIT) . . . a 64-core chip that includes specialized circuitry, . . . for both executing and prioritizing tasks in a simple and efficient manner, . . . could unleash the full power of parallel processing, . . . whil...

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Iran's Great Salt Lake Is Disappearing

Jul 04 2016 02:45 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Like Israel, and Jordan’s Dead Sea, . . . Iran has it’s own inland salty lake called Lake Urmia. . . . Climate change and dam construction has caused its demise to about . . . 10% of its of former glory. 7-4-2016 Source: Iran's Great Salt Lake Is...

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Utah’S Great Salt Lake Is Disappearing

Jul 03 2016 02:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

75 miles long, and 35 miles wide, . . . it's the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, . . . but, the great lake is vanishing quickly. Over 50% of the lake bed has been exposed, and . . . nearly 1/2 of the water has dried up. 7-3-2016...

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World's 1St: 3D-Printed Freeform House

Jun 10 2016 03:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Single-family home . . . 600-800-sq ft, . . . Kitchen, . . . Bathroom, . . . Living room, . . . Bedroom, and . . . Passive Solar design. 6-10-2016 Source: World's 1st: 3D-printed freeform house

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Solo (3 Wheel) Ev

Jun 05 2016 11:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Solo (3 Wheel) EV

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Sundial, Displays Digital Numbers

May 16 2016 12:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles

Sundial, displays Digital Numbers

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