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What Is Your Most Memorial Moment In 2012
Dec 31 2012 11:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Hurricane Sandy, . . . no lights, battery recharging . . . no TV, radio . . . no refrigerator/freezer . . . no cell phone communication . . . no fuel for generators . . . no transportation . . . Damage everywhere but here's this lone street...
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The "greenest" Car In The World!
Nov 11 2013 03:45 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Urbee 2, the first road-ready, fuel-efficient car: . . . . . . built using 3D printing, . . . . . . 7 hp (5 kW), . . . . . . 3-wheeled, . . . . . . rear-steering, . . . . . . weigh about 1,200 lbs (550 kg), . . . . . . drag coefficient of 0.149, . . ....
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World's Cheapest Car
Nov 30 2012 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Unable to afford a big vehicle to haul crops and fertiliser and . . . unwilling to justify paying 2X -3X the price for a higher-end car . . . given his limited usage, Pisal was sold on the Nano's . . . . . . cost, . . . . . . fuel efficienc...
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Define "highly Vertically Integrated"
Aug 03 2014 01:05 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
[T]he thing that would make us really efficient, . . . or for any given technology level, is to say, . . . . . . how far did that molecule move? . . . And if the molecule is taking several round trips around the world, . . . . . . that's expensive....
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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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Easy On Pocket And Low On Maintenance
Aug 26 2012 12:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN market, in Indonesia or Thailand, maybe home to a new Tata Motors ASSEMBLY plant. With the capacity to assemble about 50-60,000 vehicles annually. This assembly plant would produce, easy on pocket an...
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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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Apparatus X
Apr 28 2014 02:55 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
The trailer, called Apparatus X, will have, . . . . . . a “green wall” for food, . . . . . . a rainwater collection/filtration system, and . . . . . . an array of solar panels. It will be completely expandable, . . . able to convert an empty lot into a...
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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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$7,000.- Electric Tata Nano For The Usa?
Mar 16 2012 01:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Ratan Tata, the Group head has proudly announced, . . . that the world's cheapest car ($2,500.-) . . . will soon have an electric and a diesel variant. Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata said in an interview, . . . “The Nano launched in the US...
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Energy: Saving Tips
Mar 05 2012 03:40 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Reducing your Heating & Cooling costs: WEATHERIZE & INSULATE Heating and cooling costs account for 1/2 or more of a typical home’s total energy billProperly caulking and weatherstripping your doors and windows can reduce heating and air condi...
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Drought Map
Apr 03 2015 02:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
California, imposes MANDATORY 25% Water cuts. 04-03-2015 Source: Drought Map
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Arctic: Sea #ice Is Disappearing
Dec 25 2017 02:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic, . . . are already leading to: . . . . . . longer growing season, . . . . . . greening of the tundra, . . . . . . sharp rise in the number of wildfires, and . . . . . . spike in plankton growth. These changes...
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Tesla Battery & Motor Warrenty
Aug 16 2014 05:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The Tesla Model S warranty 85 kWh battery pack and drive unit , now have a . . . 8 year, infinite mile warranty and no limit on the number of owners, . . . during the warranty period. The warranty extension will apply retroactively to all Model S vehic...
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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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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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Modular #vehicles Design
Dec 23 2017 01:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Modular Vehicles. . . . There’s an ever-growing demand for, . . . the one vehicle that “does it all.” Matrēshka, . . . is a modular autonomous vehicle, . . . explicitly designed for commercial use, . . . with a wide range of modifications: . . . . . ....
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Apple Car
Aug 16 2015 04:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Apple seems to want the Apple Car, . . . and now, according to a report from The Guardian, . . . the Apple auto hearsay is becoming more fact than fiction. 08-16-2015 Source: Apple Car
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Electric Bicycle Hill Climb
Aug 05 2012 01:30 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
ELF zipping up a hill in Durham, NC using electric power only. Source: organictransit
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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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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet
Jan 25 2016 03:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), . . . is a massive ocean current system that’s critical to the stability of our climate, . . . as it moves a significant amount of heat from the Southern Hemisphere, and . . . the tropics up toward th...
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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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Do You Own Stuff . . . Or Does Stuff . . . Own...
Feb 17 2012 04:50 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Benefits of a Minimalist Home:Less stressful. Clutter is a form of visual distraction, and everything in our vision pulls at our attention at least a little. The less clutter, the less visual stress we have. A minimalist home is calming. More appealing...
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Power Grides
Oct 19 2012 01:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Power grids are fragile things, . . . utility poles and wires susceptible to damage by . . . . . . storms, and . . . . . .falling trees. Restoring power can be an expensive and time-consuming operation. Chattanooga [EPBC] has been installling some . ....
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100+ Ways To Save Water,
Feb 25 2012 11:25 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Water is one of our most precious natural resources. . . . How we manage it today will affect . . . nearly every aspect of our future. "Don't tell us to save water. Show us how." That was the sentiment of Arizona residents, . . . when lo...
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