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#batteries: Save Money
Sep 05 2017 06:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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#nuclear Disaster Vs Climate Change
Sep 01 2017 08:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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 rain event in American history. Yet, more than, . . ....
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#climate Change—Is Basic Physics
Aug 28 2017 12:45 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The amplifying impact of: . . . . . . sea level rise, . . . . . . warming oceans, and . . . . . . hotter air, . . . all incontrovertible consequences of, . . . climate change—is basic physics. "The thing that keeps forecasters up at night, . . . i...
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#smart Grid: What Is It?
Aug 22 2017 10:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
WIll the electric car, . . . mess up the National Grid https://www.youtube....h?v=vX0G9F42puY How will Renewable Energy effect, . . . change the way we use energy? https://www.youtube....h?v=QqfMwEQ2pbc 8-22-2017 Source: #Smart Grid: What is it?
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#disney World: Lyft "minnie Vans"
Aug 01 2017 09:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The new transportation service called "Minnie Van," . . . is now available for guests staying at: . . . . . . Disney's Boardwalk Resort, and . . . . . . Disney's Yacht & Beach Club resorts. 8-1-2017 Source: #Disney World: Lyft...
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#tesla: Us First Virtual Power Plant
Jul 31 2017 09:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Tesla and Vermont utility Green Mountain Power (GMP), . . . will bundle together up to . . . 2,000 of Tesla’s: . . . . . . residential, . . . . . . commercial, and . . . . . . industrial (C&I), . . . Powerwall, and Powerpack systems, . . . to creat...
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#uber & Lyft: Reolacement?
Jul 31 2017 09:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The tiny bus, (shuttle) can hold . . . 12 passengers, and travels at a sedate, . . . 7 miles an hour, on electricity, . . . slower than an average cyclist–runs . The reason you see us using this specific vehicle is because it’s . . . . . . low-speed,...
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#craters: In Russia
Jul 31 2017 05:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Rising temperatures, . . . are causing Siberia’s long-frozen ground, called permafrost, to thaw, and . . . creating mysterious giant craters. "The warming that happened 130,000 years ago, . . . happened over thousands of years, . . . what we see h...
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#autonomous Modular Vehicle Prototype
Jul 30 2017 09:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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#fires
Jul 29 2017 02:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
More than, . . . 37,000 fires have burned more than . . . 5.2 million acres nationally since the beginning of the year, with . . . 47 large fires (those of 1,000 acres or more) burning across . . . 9 states as of Friday. 7-29-2017 Source: #Fires
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#climate Change: Corn, Major Victim?
Jul 27 2017 11:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
In 2016, the U.S. harvested nearly . . . 87 million acres, producing . . . 15.1 billion bushels, for a total value of . . . $51.5 billion. The Met Office, . . . the U.K.'s national weather service, say's . . . "We haven't seen a m...
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#water Vanished In La Paz, Bolivia
Jul 21 2017 12:10 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
La Paz, Bolivia, glaciers, . . . its water vanished, . . . citizens woke to dry taps, civil unrest, and . . . it's Water General reigned. At nearly 12,000 feet in altitude, . . . suffering the effects of climate change quicker than the rest of us....
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#carbon Footprints: Life Choices
Jul 16 2017 05:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Environmental Research Letters, . . . has determined exactly which Life Choices, . . . reduce our carbon footprints the most. A study published in 2013, . . . estimates that in order to limit global warming to 2C, . . . the average individual carbon f...
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#self-Driving Truck
Jul 13 2017 07:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Einride, a Swedish tech company, . . . unveiled "T-pod," a self-driving, battery-electric truck, on highways, but on main roads, a human will remotely manage the driving system. https://www.youtube....h?v=DW922Wa9a_k
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#self-Driving Truck
Jul 07 2017 08:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Einride, unveiled a prototype called T-Pod: . . . . . . 23 feet long, . . . . . . holds 15 standard pallets, . . . . . . 200-kWh battery, . . . . . . 124-mile range, . . . . . . windowless, . . . . . . self-driving, . . . . . . electric truck. Driverl...
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#housing: Digital Nomads
Jul 06 2017 02:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
"Digital Nomads," . . . a growing generation of people who are often on the move, . . . want quick, immediate and easy access to . . . a minimalist living space, with services: . . . . . . Air, (Hot & Cool) . . . . . . Water, (Hot & Co...
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#all-Renewable Goldman Sachs
Jul 04 2017 10:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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#iphone
Jun 26 2017 06:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
iPhone: 1. Put the internet in everyone’s pocket 2. Transformed photography from a hobby to a part of everyday life 3. App Store changed the way software was created and distributed. 4. Apps changed everything, even how people work. 5. changed little t...
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#earthquakes
Jun 26 2017 12:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Yellowstone Park, hit by about 770 earthquakes since June 12, raises fears of possible volcanic eruption. https://www.youtube....h?v=a4H-WS2GGJA 6-26-2017 Source: #earthquakes
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#tea: Climate Change Threatens
Jun 21 2017 01:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The world's most popular drink (after water) is under threat. . . . Early research indicates, . . . that tea grown in some parts of Asia, . . . could see yields decline by up to . . . 55% thanks to drought or excessive heat, and . . . the quality o...
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#amazon/whole Foods
Jun 19 2017 03:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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#ibm: 30 Billion Chips
Jun 05 2017 04:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
IBM's new 5nm architecture crams, . . . 30 billion transistors onto fingernail-sized chip. 5 nm prototypes, are capable of improving performance by . . . 40% at fixed power, or provide a power saving of . . . 75% at matched performance. 6-5-201...
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Big Tiny House
Sep 10 2014 03:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The house has a wonderful open plan design, . . . that really makes the space of the (already large) tiny house feel even bigger. When standing at one end of the house, you can see right to the other, . . . giving the impression of being not in a tiny...
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Hush2 Is More Than Just A Shelter
Aug 18 2015 12:45 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The Hush2 shelter, . . . which is built from marine plywood, . . . is modular in design, .. . facilitating the construction of larger community buildings, . . . from several conjoined shelters, and . . . is also designed to be "easy to take down, a...
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#energy Rejected, What Is It?
May 14 2017 01:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
USA Energy Flow Chart https://www.youtube....h?v=G6dlvECRfcI . . . 2/3 of all energy generated, is "Rejected." . . . What does "Rejected" energy, mean? 5-14-2017 Source: Energy Flow Chart
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