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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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1,000,000 Tata Ace Pickup Trucks Sold
Nov 10 2012 02:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
One out of every 4th commercial vehicle sold today, . . . is aTata Ace or Tata Magic(Passanger version), . . . available in 24 countries . . . Angola, . . . Bangladesh, . . . Bhutan, . . . Congo, . . . Djibouti, . . . Ghana, . . . ]Ivory Coast, . . ....
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Basf Updates 1953 Bmw "bubble Car"
Oct 31 2013 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
“MySetta” show car, . . . based on a 1958 BMW Isetta 250, . . . is a 2-seater that you enter through the front. Innovative BASF products were used to completely refurbish it, . . . with BASF paints, coated fabrics and flexible foam. 2013-10-31 Source:...
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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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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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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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#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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India's Tata Ace Pickup Truck
Mar 31 2013 01:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Cheap enough to be affordable, . . . Tough enough to haul pigs all week, . . . . . . Pretty enough to go to Church on Sunday.
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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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#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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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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#3D Printed: Rocket Nozzle
Mar 23 2018 06:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is developing, a . . . 3D-printed rocket nozzle, . . . that is cheaper, and simpler in design than comparable ones, . . . yet is able to withstand extreme temperatures, and pressures. https://www.youtube....h?v=m...
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Central America’S Largest Wind Farm Comes Online
Feb 22 2012 07:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Gamesa and Iberdrola Renewables have brought the . . . 102-MW Cerro de Hula wind farm in Honduras online, . . . will boost Honduran electricity generation capacity by 10%. With a $200-million investment, it took just over one year to build, . . ....
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Follow The #money: Computer Hardware Cost
May 01 2018 12:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Computer hardware "FLOPS," . . . is defined as one floating-point operation per second. Historically, the Cost of computer hardware, . . . designed for high-speed mathematics in dollars, . . . (adjusted for inflation to 2017 values) was: . . ....
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Multipurpose-2: Umbrella House
Nov 16 2011 02:40 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
(CLICK picture for source article) Figure 1 Geodome, the first umbrella home (in idealized form), maintains a 66° to 74° temperature year-round without heating equipment in western Montana’s cold climate. In summer, solar heat radiates in, falls on int...
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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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New #apple Watch Coming This Fall
Mar 29 2018 01:10 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
With new health sensors beyond the heart rate sensor on earlier Watches, . . . 15% larger display, . . . more health monitoring features, and . . . longer battery life. 3-28-2018 Source: New #Apple Watch coming this fall
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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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#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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Chevy Bolt Vs #tesla Model 3
Apr 02 2018 09:45 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The Chevy Bolt cost . . . $10,000 more to make than, . . . the base model of the Tesla Model 3. Normally, the Chevy Bolt compact car, is cheaper to produce, because of: . . . . . . higher volumes, (1,000 cars a YEAR) . . . . . . lower cost of pa...
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No-Work Circular Garden
Feb 24 2012 01:55 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Attractive enough to be placed in the smallest front garden. . . . It is ideal for growing salad vegetables and herbs. Edible flowers can add colour and attract pollinators. The most important factor in the success of the garden is its siting. . . . I...
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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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Follow The Money: #fukushima
Mar 30 2018 12:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Work to scrap the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and . . . deal with radioactive water buildup at the site, is expected to cost around . . . 660 billion yen over the next . . . 3 years. 3-30-2018 Source: Follow the Money: #Fukushima
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Beautiful Photos Of The Ocean’S Deadly Plastic
Feb 17 2012 12:40 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Initially, I was interested in collecting natural objects, . . . but I began to notice there was more and more man-made debris amongst them. The intention of my work is to visually attract the viewer to the image and . . . for them to question what it...
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#car Of The Year?
Mar 28 2018 12:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Yup, that’s right — the Tesla Model 3 won! https://www.youtube....h?v=V-GOdnV5N_k 3-28-2018 Source: #Car of the year?
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