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Belching Volcano and Flowing Lava Dent Tourism in Icelandic Region

Baua Electric

The Blue Lagoon resort in the south of Iceland is a scenic network of steaming azure pools surrounded by dark rocks, where tourists dip in the geothermal water, have spa treatments and enjoy what the resort advertises as “a universe of radiant well-being.” The spa is now protected by barriers.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

Cars That Think

The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

Cars That Think

His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet. He can dive under water and come up dry. Compiled by G. Pascal Zachary.

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New Elon Musk essay: Tesla CEO’s current thoughts on technology and humanity

Teslarati

The new Elon Musk essay was published in China Cyberspace , the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) flagship magazine. In a way, the publication of the new Elon Musk essay in the CAC’s flagship magazine is significant. Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine. Posted by Elon Musk.

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

Social Media Lithium FUD When it comes to Lithium Mining, The FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt propagated by Random Youtubers, WhatsApp university and Oil funded media is so easy to debunk, it’s not even funny. According to PV Magazine’s early 2020 report, Various strategy papers for a green mining sector have been prepared.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

Ignoring the “burning fuel” option as anathema to the objectives of a magazine about EVs, the remaining two options—a resistive heating element and a heat pump—are both used in EVs. If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

Cars That Think

Indago flies above structures engulfed in flames and maps out the hot zones, on which K-Max then drops flame retardant or water. While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., They didn’t remain mysterious for long. And everything changed.

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