Tesla Model S Fourth in Plug-In Sales, Looks to Pay DOE Loans in Half the Time
2012 was a big year for Tesla Motors, especially in preparing for full-production of the Model S, which achieved in January. Profits and losses show the significant capital that went into these preparations, but don’t reflect the whole story. According to sales numbers for the fourth quarter of 2012, Tesla Motors is doing rather well, [...]
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Tanks containing nuclear waste resulted from the production of U.S. nuclear bombs are now a potential hazard for the environment, despite the DoE saying they’re secure. 177 ageing containers at the Hanford Site in Washington store two thirds of the country’s nuclear waste – 200 million liters of radioactive sludge. Our of the 177, 67 [...] Read more... | Google has long been envied for its spectacular work environment, and if the company’s vision comes to fruition, major changes to its environmentally friendly “Googleplex” in Mountainview, California will take place and be ready by 2015. Working with the Seattle-based architectural firm NBBJ to expand its current “Googleplex,” the company is planning a spectacular 1.1 [...] Read more... |
Mexico City is attempting to change its image from poster child for congestion and urban pollution to a city that embraces green ideas. A population of 18 million people and 6 million cars make public transit a necessity for many Mexico City residents. In the past, public transit was a necessary evil and involved crowds, [...] Read more... | The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, or ARPA-E, began its three day conference in Washington, DC on Monday. Attendees included the best and brightest from across the US who proposed lots of innovative ideas. To date, the agency has spent $770 million on 285 cutting edge projects ARPA-E is the Energy Department’s Pentagon-like arm [...] Read more... |
A stretchable lithium-ion battery, flexible enough to power innovative stretchable electronics, has been developed by two scientists at Northwestern University. Stretchable electronic devices are revolutionary because they do not need a cord and electrical outlet and can be used anywhere. The electronics are also implantable and can be used as healthcare monitors and tracking brain [...] Read more... | Typically, weather patterns are never constant, and balancing the thermal extremes at the poles and equator results in these patterns. Ocean currents and wind patterns are driven by these temperature differences, and for the most part, our populated areas are habitable, and farmlands are productive. In a study of the wind patterns in recent decades, [...] Read more... |
In my mind, one thing that sets apart Toyota Motor Manufacturing Company from other automakers is their attention to detail and the general reliability of their products. As a Toyota Expert, Lexus Senior, and ASE Master certified technician for over ten years, I have personally maintained Toyota vehicles with over 500,000 miles on the clock. [...] Read more... | Since pine sap is made of compounds similar to those in petroleum, they can be chemically modified using polymerization so that plastics which have biodegradable characteristics can be produced. With the harmful effects of pollution becoming more and more evident, researchers are investigating alternatives to materials made with petroleum. University of South Carolina’s Chuanbing Tang [...] Read more... |
In order to prove it, one Australian pilot, Jeremy Rowsell, is going to fly his Cessna from Sydney, Australia to London, England using only fuel derived from recycled plastic. Currently, the most abundant fuels on the planet are hydrocarbons, specifically petroleum which is extracted from underground, or undersea, reservoirs. Petroleum, when refined, doesn’t only end up as gasoline, [...] Read more... | We’ve been watching this little storm brewing over Tesla Motors and The New York Times, and it doesn’t seem like it’s dying off too quickly, it isn’t growing either. The publicity, some may argue, has brought Tesla Motors some screen time and made it into the conscience of many more people than ever before, but [...] Read more... |
Australia’s largest supercomputer may get a renewable system for cooling in the near future thanks to a geothermal energy project in Perth. The Pawsey Centre supercomputer, an $80 million facility, needs an advanced solution for cooling. CSIRO Geothermal Project has determined that a groundwater cooling system will work best. The system works by pumping cool [...] Read more... | A series of lasers built to study nuclear fusion reactions at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory aims to replace uranium-based nuclear fission with cleaner, safer fusion reactions to provide energy to power plants. Despite the fact the world’s biggest laser did not make a key target date on the [...] Read more... |
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