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Peugeot Hybrid 208 2L gets over 110 mpg
Given that transportation is the most widespread source of carbon dioxide emissions, albeit not the greatest source, it is encouraging to see cars breaking...
Solar Power vs Natural Gas – H1 2014 Numbers are Surprising
As American energy-needs continue to increase, new energy sources are required to fill in the gap, among them solar power, wind power, natural gas,...
Ocean Life Coping with Climate Change through Evolution
Climate change is again threatening thousands of living species to extinction, as it has done to the dinosaurs during the first ice age. Researchers...
Five Foodstuff That Are Eating Away Our Forests
There are tremendous benefits in maintaining the earth's tropical rain forests. Not only do they play host to thousands of animal and plant species,...
Off-Grid System from a Tesla 85 kWh Battery
Now, before we get started, we need to cover the basics of safety, prudence, and good sense and say of this Tesla Motors Off-Grid...
Tesla Motors to Build “Gigafactory” in Nevada
Leading up to the planned, and affordable, Tesla Model 3, Tesla Motors really needs to get lithium-ion battery prices down, which is the whole...
Newfound Bacteria Gobble Up Hazardous, er, Nuclear Waste
Before Halo, Need for Speed and even Super Mario, there was PacMan. No, not the boxer from the Philippines who eats away Latino boxers...
California Solar Panel Orientation – Where the West Was Won
When installing solar systems north of the equator, the rule is to do so with the panels facing south. The point of this is...
Water Tanks Spring New Lives as a House and a Cafe
Now we have seen recycled materials used to erect a building, and we have seen buildings that were repurposed. I guess we associate springs...
Better Than a Glass House, This Plastic Bottle Classroom Rocks
They say that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. But if you stay inside a plastic bottle classroom during a tropical...
