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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Snow e-biking like a pro: 10 insider tips for riding your electric bike this winter

Baua Electric

Store your battery indoors when not in use, and consider insulating it with a battery cover when riding in very cold conditions. Bright colors are more important than ever in the winter, and a $7 high-visibility vest is a simple and cheap way to be more visible to car drivers while you’re in an unprotected bike lane.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Green Car Congress

Quinones are naturally abundant, inexpensive, small organic molecules, and similar to molecules that store energy in plants and animals. The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Background.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

Cars That Think

based startup began toying with the idea. But then a company hit on the idea to use it as a spacecraft propellant. And then somebody just resurrected the research on it and said, ‘Hey, other than the environmental impact, this was a pretty good idea.’ It’s also liquid at room temperature, making it efficient to store and use.

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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C

Baua Electric

That seemed like a great idea to put to use for all of my electric “toys”. I got one of the cheapest portable air conditioning units on Amazon I could find, and despite now realizing that was probably a bad idea, from an efficiency standpoint, it seems to work pretty well.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Dash Cam?

The Truth About Cars

Whatever you select, it is a decent idea to mount forward-facing cams like this out of yer sightlines (that’s why we also campaign against mirror hangers and the like). & We feel that’s cheap insurance against the dude in that brodozer who swears he didn’t run the light.

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