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Keeping Up with the Joneses A Factor in Solar Installation
You might think that solar roof owners tended to be upper middle class liberals, but a study shows that that might not be the...
Capital of the Dirty South Clears Up Road for Bike Lanes
The Capital of the Dirty South is gonna get a little cleaner, thanks to its new bike lanes. The Green Lane Project, a program...
A Married Couple’s Sweet Music – A Graphene Battery Printing
This couple is making beautiful music together - they've printed a battery made of graphene. Dr. Elena Polyakova and Dr. Daniel Stolyarov, originally from...
Long-Range Affordable Electric Vehicles Coming Soon
Electric vehicles, if you ask the layperson (• - see note), suffer from a couple of major faults, most outstandingly affordability and range.
If we...
Elon Musk Demos the Blistering-Fast Tesla Model D
Unveiled earlier this month, the all-wheel-drive Tesla Model D is a marvel of electric powertrain technology and proves the point that electric cars can...
The Way to the Twilight Zone? Nope, it’s the Smart Highway
If you find yourself at route N329 in the city of Oss in the Netherlands at night, don't worry, you're not on your way...
Solar to Brighten Christmas for Typhoon Haiyan Survivors
It's almost been a year since the deadly typhoon Haiyan (locally called Yolanda) hit Tacloban and several other towns and cities in central Philippines. ...
Vinyl Records Turned Into Glasses, Love Them or Hate Them
Do you remember the vinyl records? These were extremely popular a good 20-30 years ago, but their glory kept fading until they finally got...
Plug-In Car Sales Breach 600,000 Units
Barely four years after their debut, the sales of plug-in cars zoomed 20% in the last four months, reaching at least 600,000 worldwide, according...
Wind Farm to Invade Middle East Oilfields
A cool breeze in blowing in the Middle East, a region perennially beset by news of war and terrorism and that is closely associated...
