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Electric Bike Conversion Kit is Lightest Ever
When considering an electric bike conversion kit, there are a few paths you can take, both of which help solve the transportation problems city-dwellers...
Scientists Recycle Urine to Produce Fresh Drinking Water and Energy
New renewable energy sources are being explored by scientists constantly. Inventions and discoveries flood the scientific journals, unfortunately often the experiments and findings do...
Why Big Food Needs to Care About Climate Change
According to a new report just out by Oxfam, climate change will send food costs soaring, leading to hunger and suffering. Oxfam intentionally aimed...
Volkswagen Ten-Speed To Deliver Better Fuel Economy
Automakers are tackling fuel economy in every way imaginable. Today, we’re talking about Volkswagen’s new ten-speed transmission.
The world’s first production-vehicle, Mercedes-Benz’s 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen,...
How “The Hybrid Shop” Reduces Hybrid Battery Waste
When considering a hybrid vehicle, perhaps one of the first things you think about is fuel economy. Then there’s the hybrid battery, which will...
Microgrids Could Provide Electricity Even During a Hurricane
With frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, especially hurricanes, is increasing rapidly as a consequence of climate change, power cuts in many parts...
New Highly Durable and 100% Recyclable Plastics Discovered by Mistake
It is truly rewarding for any scientific team when the concept that they have been working on for years and years finally realizes and...
“Fixers” Do the Oil Companies’ Dirty Work – Keep the World Dependent On Fossil...
Although it sounds like something straight out of a movie, it’s real… when the oil giants like Chevron or Exxon-Mobil want to move in...
Eco-Friendly Vegan “Leather” May be a Fashion Game Changer
A professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware has come up with an eco-friendly leather alternative that’s made from natural...
Millennials Believe They Care More about the Environment Than Their Parents
The Millennial Generation - people born in the 1980s and 1990s who are in their teens and 20s today – say they are more...
