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Sales of the Chevy Volt extended range electric vehicle has been slow, but steady, meaning that support companies like battery suppliers aren't as productive as they could be. True, the market for electric vehicles as a whole hasn't been...
A study by researchers at the Joint Global Change Research Institute at Maryland determined that  successful climate mitigation strategies in the future should take into account natural disturbances such as fires and hurricanes, which have impact on world's forested areas. Forests...
Research coming from the Urban Water Technologies Stream of CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship created a new approach to remove phosphorus from waste water and limit algal blooms. Phosphorus is one of the most commonly found constituents of commercial...
The impact of methane as a greenhouse gas has been severely understated, as the amount that can be released through fracking has been projected for an 100-year period. Considering that emitted methane can last in the environment for just over...
Part of electric vehicle ownership is installing your own refueling station, an electric vehicle charging station, that is. When you look at the overall costs of running an electric vehicle, it's easy to see how many people could benefit financially...
“Promises were made to be broken,” but not by Tesla Motors, which is good news for everyone, including investors and prospective clients. The driving force behind Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, has almost everything to do with how this high-tech electric...
By pairing a hybrid wind turbine’s battery with a wind-forecasting algorithm, wind farm operators might be able to guarantee a specified amount of power output for nearly an hour. If this pairing is possible, then integrating intermittent renewable energy...
Considering Tesla Motors is not for the faint-of-wallet, to be sure, but then, the Tesla Model S is a high-tech luxury vehicle. The base Tesla Model S 60kWh with no options ticked still starts over $70,000 before incentives that bring...
Iranian city Mahallat is home to a thriving stone cutting industry. Even though the industry contributes nearly half of the city’s economy, it also generates a lot of waste stone from the cutting process. Tehran’s Architecture by Collective Terrain thus...
A prototype developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Medras in Chennai, India, purifies 10 litres of water at a time, making it free from harmful contaminants and bacteria. The study was published in the latest issue of...