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There were cars, girls and even stars at the track in Long Beach, CA last weekend for the inaugural Formula E race.  But one thing was noticeably absent - the roar of engines. And it's not for the lack of...
If someone were to ask you to explain climate change and why you believe it exists, how long do you think it would take? Really, climate change isn’t all that complicated, and you don’t even need any charts. The only...
Scientists continuously develop more detailed and more powerful climate models, which make much more accurate and useful predictions for the state of our environment in the near future. But how much can we really extrapolate the results for the future-...
Some reports say that offshore wind is crazy expensive.  In fact, an economist from Oxford University, Dieter Helm, was quoted in the Economist back in 2014 as saying that offshore wind is “among the most expensive ways of marginally...
At times when the world is trying to adjust and cope with the devastating consequences of climate change, scientists are developing heat resistant crops that can potentially prevent the world from starving. Food security was outlined by the latest IPCC...
When talking about cooling a room, people always think of air conditioners. Panasonic has recently unveiled its plans to produce an efficient spherical air blower that ejects seven times the wind it absorbs. Well, that may sound like wishful thinking, but...
On the surface, planting biofuels crops might seem to be a good carbon-neutral endeavor, but research indicates quite the opposite. Could growing biofuel crops to fuel your flex-fuel vehicle actually be worse for the environment? A new UW-Madison (University of...
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) pledged to help stop Deforestation by committing itself to ‘build traceable and transparent agricultural supply chains that protect forests worldwide’. Their commitment is implemented through supply chain policies of palm and soy. They extended their commitment...
Tesla Motors has been banned from selling cars in West Virginia, and made Elon Musk to tweet a big "Oh, no!". If you were thinking that the West Virginia is a fully democratic state, and the American dream of being free...
Putting an autopilot drive system on a toy car is a great achievement for an engineer, but making it work in real-world scenarios in a 691-horsepower electric car is definitely worth the world's attention. Going further, to make that autopilot system...