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San Francisco Castro District Gets Rainbow Crosswalks

San Francisco Castro District Gets Rainbow Crosswalks

One of the gayest districts in the world has gotten matching crosswalks. The most surprising thing is that it has taken so long for San Francisco’s Castro District to get rainbow crosswalks. Of course, there’s a whole LGBT thing to cover with regards to this, but that’s not really our beat. I decided to quickly [&hellip

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All 3 Fukushima ALPS Nuclide Scrubbers Shut Down Tuesday

Construction of the Advanced Liquid Processing System at TEPCO’s ruined Fukushima nuclear power complex (photo: TEPCO, via mainichi.jp). Still dealing with the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, subsequent tsunami, and three meltdowns at its Fukushima I nuclear power complex, Tokyo Electric Power Company had more bad news yesterday about its Fukushima ALPS cleanup efforts. [&hellip

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Electric Scooter/Briefcase — #FTW or #FAIL

Originally published on EV Obsession. If you’ve ever wanted a briefcase that can transform into an electric scooter (like a Transformer ), well, then you’re now in luck. Green Energy Motors Corp is now offering just such a scooter/briefcase. Looks like your dreams have come true — if you have $6000 dollars, that is…. (For [&hellip

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Cosmologists Find ‘Tell-Tale’ Energy Pattern In The Cosmic Background, Confirming The Inflated Universe Theory

In the scientific discipline known as cosmology — the study of the origin and evolution of our universe — finding “hard” evidence in support of theory is often hard to come by; scientists must look for subtle indictors or traces of cosmological forces that act over vast regions of space, or, ones that may have [&hellip

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Nissan & Renault Likely To Topple 2020 Electric Car Sales Target Early

Nissan — along with its partner Renault — appears to be well on track to meeting (or surpassing) its electric car sales goal for 2020, based on the most recent numbers from the company. Currently, the two companies have together sold about 10% of the goal of 1.5 million units by 2020 — of this, [&hellip

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The Commute-Case — An Electric Scooter/Briefcase Transformer For $6000 Dollars…

If you’ve ever wanted a briefcase that can transform into an electric scooter (like a Transformer ), well, then you’re now in luck. Green Energy Motors Corp is now offering just such a scooter/briefcase. Looks like your dreams have come true — if you have $6000 dollars, that is…. (For those genuinely interested, there is […]

The Commute-Case — An Electric Scooter/Briefcase Transformer For $6000 Dollars… was originally published on EV Obsession.

Saudi Arabia Solar Tender For 1,000 MW Coming This Year

Given that the Saudi government has previously stated its plan to invest more than US$109 billion dollars into solar energy — with the aim to develop a solar industry that can provide 1/3 of its electricity by the year 2032 — the announcement isn’t surprising. But it does represent some of the first concrete action […]

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Factory Farm Article Overstates Cow Tail Docking

In “9 Facts About Factory Farming That Will Break Your Heart,” The Huffington Post yesterday announced a shocking “fact” that over 82% of U.S. dairies use tail docking. Instant reaction: horror. Wouldn’t cutting off tails not only hurt the cattle, but also embolden disease-carrying flies around them? (It does.) However, the US Department of Agriculture [&hellip

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Lithium-Air Batteries Take Step Forward

The technology of lithium-air batteries continues to move forward — with recent work by researchers from Mie University in Japan showing that one of the primary issues with the technology can be effectively addressed — improving the design, to limit the damage caused at the lithium/water interface, without decreasing the battery power. Their new findings […]

Lithium-Air Batteries Take Step Forward was originally published on EV Obsession.