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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

Cars That Think

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. “We There is nothing special here!” Eronen says. “It

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Why you might be charging your EV wrong – and what to do instead

Baua Electric

Tesla Supercharger (Source: Tesla) Many EV drivers carry over habits from driving gasoline cars when they charge EVs, but that leads to wasted time, inconvenience, and range anxiety, according to a new study. They interviewed EV users in both Sweden and the US and found unanticipated and previously unreported EV charging habits and ideas.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world. Four startups presented particularly unique ways of addressing the challenge of reducing the use of fossil fuels.

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Bill Ford: Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution; emphasis on green and smart technologies

Green Car Congress

These so-called megacities will present a unique challenge to personal mobility, threatening the economy, the environment, and even the health of their residents. Ford highlighted the benefits Michigan has realized by being at the center of developments in green technology, including electric vehicles and battery innovation.

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The BMW Group’s 360-degree approach to sustainability

EV Central

This is the idea of the circular economy, a future in which we don’t waste so much, and we create vehicles that are not only made from 100 per cent recyclable materials, but 100 per cent recyclable at the end of their lives as well. Every part of the i-Vision Circular has been designed to minimise waste, and weight.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

Cars That Think

Kai-Fu Lee , an AI expert who leads the venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures , and Chen Qiufan , a science fiction author known for his novel Waste Tide. Charles Simonyi , the person who created Microsoft word. If you expect an assembly line worker to become a robot repair person, it isn’t going to be so easy." —Kai-Fu

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