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Everyone has seen them, those tiny dark spots that spring up around the bathtub, on window sills, and on shower curtains. Mold. Mold is a type of fungus that loves to grow in dark damp places and can ...
If these UCLA researchers are right – and we might find out pretty soon – energy storage could be in for a big change. Richard Kaner and his graduate student Maher El-Kady have been trumpeting ...
Close your eyes and think back to when you were a kid. How did you imagine the City of the Future? Were there jet-packs and freeze-dried food? A bubble protecting a thriving Martian metropolis? But ...
There are some chores I’ve just never stopped hating. Dishes are one of them, making the bed is another. Although we’ve got a fairly new dishwasher it still takes some doing to get me motivated enough ...
How dangerous is the development, operation and maintenance of the infrastructure for energy production from wind, with its massive equipment, the machinery that it takes to install towers and ...
Editor’s Note: We’ve just posted an interview we did in early April 2012 with SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith about his company’s technology. You can read that here. The gray cylinder rising 540 feet ...
If you drive an electric vehicle in Illinois, you’re going to get a little shock when it comes time for your annual vehicle registration. Last weekend, the Illinois National Assembly approved raising ...
This past September the SolarStrong Project was all set to go with a $275 million U.S. government loan package for 160,000 rooftop solar installations on over 124 U.S. military bases in 33 states. But ...
Electrified vehicles are more and more on the minds of automakers, particularly in Germany, as we observed from the recent Frankfurt Auto Show a slew of announcements on concept and production models.
Over the past 30 years Monster Cable has given the world fat cables and beefy gold-plated connectors for its home audio and video components, but in recent times they’ve also been releasing some more ...
The Passive House concept is said to have come out of a 1988 conversation between a German and a Swede. Research projects were funded, the first Passivhaus (PH) residences were built in 1990, and the ...
It’s not just the dinosaur bones that are attracting visitors to the newly reopened Natural History Museum of Utah. Visitors are also interested in the bones of the building itself. Located in Salt ...