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Walmart Sues Tesla Over Solar Panels Reportedly Catching Fire
As you probably know, Walmart supermarkets are pretty huge and, as such, have a lot of space available on the roof. It does, therefore, make more than a little sense to try and optimise that by deploying solar panels to try and run a little greener and off-set your electric…
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NASA Abandons Hope for Mars Rover Opportunity
NASA Abandons Hope for Opportunity Rover Last year a pretty significant storm hit Mars and one of the casualties with the Opportunity Rover. While Curiousity managed to escape unscathed, contact was lost with Opportunity. The exact cause was unclear, it was, however, speculated that the storm may have caused the solar…
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NASA Solar Probe Mission to Touch the Sun Launches in August
Flying Too Close to the Sun? NASA is preparing to launch what is probably their most ambitious mission yet in August. They are sending a probe as close to the sun‘s “surface” as possible. This is NASA’s first mission to the sun and its outermost atmosphere called the ‘corona’. The…
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NASA Discovers Growing Hole Within Earth’s Sun
NASA astronomers have discovered a large hole in the corona of our sun, and it’s growing. While the anomaly is not a matter for concern, it does suggest that the sun is set to unleash an impressive solar storm in early 2017; it shouldn’t affect the Earth too much –…
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Meet The Robot Caterpillar
When you think of robots you often see the skeletons from terminator, the giant metal figures of Robocop or even the plastic coated shells from iRobot. What people rarely think about is soft robots, robots that act without giant metal skeletons powering their every move. The University of Warsaw has…
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Would You Battery Power Your Home?
As we develop technology, how we change and live is being shaped more and more by our technology. With smart homes offering us the ability to warm up the home before you are even in the door or playing your music in rooms upstairs or downstairs at the press of…
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Juno Returns The First Photos From Jupiter
NASA is keen on pursuing its mission to outer space and Juno is just the latest way for them to not only fly through but picture our solar system in ways we’ve never managed before. Juno has managed to send back the first photos since it began orbiting Jupiter last…
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Tesla Wants Into the Sustainable Energy Business
Want an electric car? If so the chances are that you have considered buying a Tesla at some point, from the Model 3 to the Model S their vehicles are considered the must-haves for anyone interested in getting an electric vehicle. Don’t worry if you want to be involved with…
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Bad Mirrors Set Solar Thermal Plant On Fire
When it comes to renewable energy there are a few options, from the power of the sea in tidal factories or the wind in a wind farm, your options are as numerous as the earth offers. An alternative to classic solar farms are the solar thermal plants, like the Ivanpah…
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Clean Energy Rules Backed by Leading Tech Companies
People like the idea of clean energy, the ability for us to generate more energy than we use all from renewable sources that don’t damage the environment. France requires that new buildings have solar panels or grass on the roofs, and an Indian airport has decided that solar power is…
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Toyota Reveal New Concept For Hydrogen Powered Car
We live in a wonderful age, we’ve begun to create technology that merges both the digital and the real world together in augmented reality and even where people can drive a metal car powered by sunlight. The human imagination has created and continues to create an amazing array of technologies,…
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Kickstarting the Solar Trend Just Became Easier
Are you a green energy lover that wishes big energy companies would start to move away from the old-fashioned way of producing electricity to a newer and more reliable source? If so, a new Kickstater campaign might be right up your street. SunPort is a smart device that simply plugs in…
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Indian Airport Paves The Way For a Solar Power Future
The world’s resources are becoming more and more finite in its capacity to provide for an ever-increasing population. Countries which previously had been considered as small and unassuming are now experiencing their version of an industrial revolution. As the planet becomes more hi tech, so the need for electricity becomes…
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Want To Live In A Modern Windmill?
Remember that old TV series “Around The Twist” with the family that lived in the lighthouse? How long did people spend talking with their friends and family about living in a lighthouse or windmill? Well, people in the Netherlands might be closer to the dream than everyone else thanks to a…
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Solar Power At Home Now More Popular Than Commercial Solar Power
In the modern world, Solar Power is popular, with everything from solar-powered planes flying from Japan to Hawaii to advances allowing the absorption of infrared light to increase their efficiency. Either way you look at it solar power is becoming more and more popular and is constantly becoming a bigger part…
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