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Feb 2, 2021

Tesla’s Crazy Yoke Could Enable Flight Controls, Activate Rockets On Roadster

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Elon Musk says the Tesla Roadster will be able to fly a little bit, so perhaps the new Model S yoke will be used so that the driver pulls back on it to fly.

Jan 31, 2021

New Catalyst Moves Seawater Desalination, Hydrogen Production Closer to Commercialization

Posted by in category: sustainability

Fast, One-Step Assembly at Room Temperature Yields High Efficiency at Low Cost University of Houston-A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH,…

Jan 28, 2021

Google’s using AI to plan electric car trips because EV charging is still a nightmare

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation

Google is using artificial intelligence to help EV owners plan their routes. Charging an electric vehicle can be very confusing, with stations offering different plugs and different speeds. Google wants to take some the guesswork out of it.

Jan 27, 2021

Startup Builds 3 Huge Indoor Farms in Appalachia Turning Coal Country into Agricultural Hub

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Indoor farms are bringing the change! 😃


Based in Appalachia, Kentucky, AppHarvet’s cutting edge indoor farms have delivered their first harvest of tomatoes to grocery stores.

Jan 24, 2021

Rethinking Energy 2020–2030: 100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginning

Posted by in categories: business, computing, economics, internet, nuclear energy, sustainability

Wow…even I was amazed by these stats and timeline… and I am an unapologetic optimist and futurist who wants to live forever lol.


This video is a synopsis of our research report “Rethinking Energy 2020–2030: 100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginning” that was published on October 27th, 2020 and is available for download free of charge from our RethinkX website https://www.rethinkx.com/energy.

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Jan 23, 2021

Elon Musk announces $100 million prize for new carbon capture tech

Posted by in categories: climatology, Elon Musk, sustainability

Things we already know: The world is growing uncomfortably warm due to humanity’s insistence on burning fossil fuels. Elon Musk is currently the wealthiest human on the planet. Yet for being among the wealthiest people on the planet, Musk’s philanthropic track record over the years has been paltry compared to the likes of Jeff Bezos. So, yeah, it did come as a bit of a surprise on Thursday when the Tesla CEO took to Twitter to announce that he plans to donate $100 million as a prize towards a winning carbon capture system.

Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 212021

Details on Musk’s upcoming carbon capture competition have not been released but are expected to arrive “next week.” This is not the first time that a company has sought the public’s help with carbon capture technology, which seeks to pull this element from the atmosphere and squirrel it away to help slow the rate of human-induced climate change. In 2018, X-Prize held a similar competition and awarded five finalist teams a share of its $20 million grand prize. But with a $100 million purse on the line, Musk’s competition will not only offer five times the funding as X-Prize, it’ll also constitute his single-largest philanthropic investment to date (10 times the amount of his second-largest donations so far). Of course, this is far from the first effort to collect and convert atmospheric CO2 into consumer products.

Jan 23, 2021

The DeLorean might be coming back as an electric car

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The DMC DeLorean has been out of production for almost 40 years, but now we’ve learned that the iconic vehicle might be coming back as an electric car.

The DMC DeLorean was the only vehicle produced by John DeLorean’s DeLorean Motor Company (DMC).

It became famous for being featured in the ‘Back to the Future’ series of movies, but it is also a well-known vehicle in the industry for a few reasons.

Jan 23, 2021

From Alpaca Floor Mats to Gold Inlay, the World’s First Electric Rolls-Royce Is a Luxe, Sustainable Ride

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The classic gets an electric upgrade.

Jan 23, 2021

Awesomely weird Alibaba EV of the week: $4,000 electric pickup truck

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Alibaba is one of the best places around to find the coolest and sometimes weirdest electric vehicles in the world. As part of a new series known as Awesomely weird Alibaba electric vehicle of the week, we’re taking a look at some of our favorites.

This week’s feature is a small-yet-mighty electric pickup truck designed for utility and off-road usage, though it may even be street legal as an NEV in the US.

If the proportions look at bit odd on this electric pickup truck, that’s because they are.

Jan 22, 2021

Materials Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper, Better Solar Panels

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

“This is the first study to use pressure to control this stability, and it really opens up a lot of possibilities,” Yu Lin, researcher at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), said in a statement.

“Now that we’ve found this optimal way to prepare the material, there’s potential for scaling it up for industrial production, and for using this same approach to manipulate other perovskite phases,” Lin added.

The “black” phase, the one successfully stabilized by the scientists, of perovskite has intrigued scientists for years since it has been found to be extremely efficient in converting sunlight to electricity, making it the Holy Grail for solar panel technology.