Energy

Toyota’s New Semiconductor Makes Today’s Prius Hybrid Look Like a Gas Guzzler

Buying an eco-friendly Toyota Prius Hybrid in the future may become more appealing to you. The company has announced a new diamond-like chip that carries electricity through the car’s drivetrain without losing energy, capable of…

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Bangladesh Introducing “Green Tax” Against Factories

Bangladesh is to introduce a new “green tax” in its 2014/2015 budget against factories that produce dangerous levels of pollution. Finance minister AMA Muhith proposed a 1% tax entitled the “Environment Protection Surcharge”. The proposed…

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Get from Point A to Point B in the World’s First All-Electric Driverless Shuttle

Induct Technology, a small technology company, has beaten the top shots of auto industry like Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, Ford, GM and Hyundai in the race to be first to put a driverless car on sale.…

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The Power Source of the Future: Bendable and Thinner Than Paper

James Tour of Rice University, with the help of his colleagues, has created an electrochemical capacitor that is not only bendable and capable of charging a smartphone, it is also thinner than paper! The idea…

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World’s Largest Offshore Oil Platform an Engineering Masterpiece

Perdido, Spanish For “Lost”, Replaced Devil’s Tower As World’s Largest Oil and gas platforms rank up there with the wonders of the world, especially when they cost $3 billion to build and almost as much…

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Cut Your Morning Commute with a Solar-Powered Citycopter

The average person spends 61 hours a year stuck in traffic. That leads up to 56 billion pounds of carbon dioxide released into the air each year and $121 billion in gas spent while you…

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Big Data Leads to New Models of Earth’s Wind, Weather and Ocean Patterns

Software engineer, former developer of financial trading platforms and now cartographer Cameron Beccario has created a series of interactive animation maps providing real time visual models of the earth’s global wind, weather and oceans. The…

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The Birth of Atomic Powered Aircraft and Their Future

In 1942, as researchers involved in the Manhattan Project were preparing an atomic bomb for use in World War II, they began to discuss the use of nuclear power for use in aircraft. Despite all…

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Fifth and Final Pagani Zonda Revolucion Sells for $3 million

Pagani brought its stunningly impressive fifth and final Zonda Revolucion to the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. With this, the production of the Zonda line of supercars has come to an end. Pagani claims that this…

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Use Your Sweaty Body to Charge Your Phone

In this digital and portable world, most of us have to cope with our daily devices and the plethora of wall chargers that accompany them. Keeping your phone charged can be a pain; even a…

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