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#tesla Vs Volkswagen
May 12 2017 01:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
“Anything Tesla Can Do, We Can Surpass,” Says Volkswagen Chief. . . . Volkswagen has set a goal of selling 1 million electric cars a year by 2025. . . . Elon Musk has set his goal of selling 1 million electric cars a year by 2020. . . . Volkswagen ha...
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#electric Remote-Controlled Container Ship
May 11 2017 01:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
https://www.youtube....h?v=dVVRUAvoBK4 World's first, . . . all-electric, . . . autonomous, (remote controlled) . . . container, . . . ship to set sail in 2018. https://www.youtube....h?v=VjTKL4hm4B0 5-11-2017 Source: #Electric remote-controlled c...
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#antarctica Ice Breaking Up
May 04 2017 01:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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#tesla Mini-Bus
May 01 2017 03:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Elon Musk, describes the concept for a . . . High Density–Passenger Urban Transport Vehicle (Mini-Bus). “With the advent of autonomy, . . .it will probably make sense to shrink the size of buses, and . . . transition the role of bus driver, . . . to t...
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#3D Print
Apr 28 2017 09:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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#nuclear Power Plants
Apr 28 2017 03:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy in March, . . . blaming billions of dollars of cost overruns at . . . 2 nuclear power plants it is constructing in: . . . . . . Georgia, and . . . . . . South Carolina. Judge Michael Wiles allowed Westinghouse to borr...
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#arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral Continues
Apr 15 2017 05:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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#2Nd Warmest Feb
Apr 11 2017 06:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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#atlantification Of The Arctic
Apr 08 2017 12:45 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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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Round Houses
Apr 04 2017 06:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Round buildings, use 15 to 20% less material, . . . to enclose the same square footage as a rectangular buildings. This means: . . . more living space for less cost, . . . less surface area in contact with adverse weather conditions, . . . i...
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No-Dig Gardening
Apr 04 2017 05:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
No-dig Gardening https://www.youtube....h?v=lFQm2PoE1u4
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Problems Sleeping?
Mar 21 2017 05:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Sleeping should be easy. . . . But despite nightly practice, . . . more and more people are finding it impossible to get the full 40 winks. Thankfully, you don’t have to join the sleep-starved millions. . . . You can find all the information needed to...
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March 11: Fukushima Day
Mar 11 2017 04:45 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Saturday, March 11, 2017 . . . marks the 6-year anniversary of, . . . the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan and . . . killed more than 19,000 people. The disaster also led to the triple meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nucle...
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700 North American Bee Species
Mar 06 2017 02:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Over 700 North American bee species, . . . are heading towards extinction. A new report by the Center for Biological Diversity, entitled . . .“Pollinators in Peril: . . . .. . A systematic status review of North American, and Hawaiian bees,” . . . outl...
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China: Tesla Tripling Sales
Mar 04 2017 03:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Tesla, the automaker, reported, . . . that revenue from China was, . . . $318 million, in 2015 and . . . $1 billion, in 2016. 2-4-2017 Source: China: Tesla Tripling Sales
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Ireland: Winter Grazing Land
Feb 24 2017 02:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The Burren—an alien-looking limestone landscape, . . . on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, . . . which has been used for cattle farmers as winter grazing land . . . (winter grazing is unheard of in much of the rest of Europe) . . . for more than 6,000...
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Breaking Down The Science
Feb 18 2017 02:45 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Climate Change! "Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, . . . (methane, carbon dioxide, etc.) . . . let visible light pass through, absorb infrared light. The warmer atmosphere emits more infrared light, . . . which tends to be re-absorbed. Sin...
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Oklahoma Is Sweltering In February
Feb 17 2017 01:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Oklahoma just endured a spell of exceptionally hot weather. . . . Mangum, Oklahoma, saw temperatures close to . . . 100º F, setting a state record. The average February high in Mangum is . . . 56º F. Two years ago this month, . . . in a well-publicize...
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#shelter's
Feb 06 2017 09:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
"Better Shelter's," . . . flat pack emergency shelter incorporating solar power, . . . has won both the . . . Architecture award, and . . . Grand Prize in the . . . Beazley Design of the Year. 2-6-2017 Source: #Shelter's
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#weather Forecasting
Feb 05 2017 08:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
NASA's, 3 foot wide, carbon-fiber gliders, . . . with onboard sensors, and instruments, . . . dropped from a weather balloon, . . . at 100,000 ft, and . . . remotely guided to a predetermined location, . . . could fill a tremendous need, . . . in...
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#u.s. Energy "rejected"
Feb 01 2017 11:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
How much Energy Americans are paying for, and . . . how much waste exists. 2-1-2017 Source: #U.S. Energy "Rejected"
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#tesla Battery Kills The Duck
Jan 31 2017 07:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
One of the problems that comes from reliance on solar power is the . . . “duck curve” where the solar panels produce, . . . more power than is needed during the day, and . . . standby power is needed in the evening, . . . when demand is high, and . . ....
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#instant Apartment
Jan 30 2017 04:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
A step beyond flip-down beds ,and foldaway furniture, . . . this series of modular rooms, packs whole: . . . . . . Kitchens, . . . . . . Bedrooms, and . . . . . . Offices, into a highly portable form. 1-30-2017 Source: #Instant Apartment
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India: Tata's 10Mw Grid Battery
Jan 28 2017 01:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Commissioned and operated by Tata Power Delhi Distribution, the . . . 10-megawatt Advancion energy storage array, is a joint project by . . . Mitsubishi, and the U.S. energy storage company AES. India's electrical infrastructure is fragile, . . ....
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Platooning: Efficient Transportation
Jan 23 2017 05:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Volkswagen Truck & Bus, . . . launching trial projects for . . . self-driving platoons. Singapore, ruck platoons each composed of . . . 4 trucks are to cover a distance of . . . 10 kilometers on public roads, . . . to transport containers between...
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