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Coal power is getting the cold shoulder in India as renewable prices plummet
Coal-based power plants fall out of favor with power distribution companies in India as the price of wind and solar power continues to plummet to record lows. Whereas wind and solar power tariffs are priced at around Rs 2.4 per unit, coal-based power is currently being sold at Rs 3.7 per unit. With Read More...
Seaweed could be an alternative to plastic packaging for food and beverages
Indonesia is the world’s second-worst offender in terms of dumping plastic into the sea. 90 percent of the country's plastic ends up in the ocean. And 70 percent of that waste comes from food and beverage packaging. To put an end to this incredibly wasteful use of plastic, one Indonesia-based Read More...
Here’s why you never seem to have enough time
If you feel like you never have time, that’s because you don’t have enough time. Nobody does. Time is, in our modern society, a scarcity, a “precious resource,” and the unspoken enemy that must be subdued. But this was not always so. At other moments in history, time was abundant. So what Read More...
Amazon is paying its employees $12,000 to train for a job at another company
The forward-thinking company helps employees forward their dream careers--even if it means it's not at Read More...
Seaweed diet reveals potential for precision manipulation of gut bacteria
Seaweed-eating gut bacteria could be the first step towards a future of new precision medicine where diet can turn on or off different engineered parts of our microbiome. And seaweed has much more to offer. See Read More...
Scientists just created a new “super wood” that’s stronger than steel
Spider silk has long held the record for being the strongest biomaterial on Earth — but that just changed. Scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology used wood nanofibers to create a new biomaterial that is even stronger than spider silk. Researchers “densified” wood to turn an Read More...
Apple invests $10 million in a greener method of aluminum production
Apple uses a lot of aluminum in its products. Unfortunately, the way aluminum is produced hasn’t changed much in the last 100+ years. It’s pretty dirty, releasing greenhouse gases into the air. Aluminum is one of eight materials that Apple is focused on to find cleaner, greener ways of Read More...
Washington county files climate lawsuit to protect Pacific’s shellfish industry
King County – which includes Seattle – has joined the growing movement of climate liability Read More...
One in five Americans say their next car will be an electric one
A recent survey conducted has found that one in five Americans say they will likely buy an electric car the next time they purchase a new vehicle. If one in five Americans actually followed through and bought an electric car, that would represent an enormous jump in sales in a market where electric Read More...
Uber and NASA are teaming up to make flying taxis a reality
If Uber wants its flying taxi service to become a reality, it’s smart to deepen its relationship with a government agency that routinely handles logistics for ground-to-air traffic. That’s why Uber has signed not one, but two agreements with NASA to stimulate the growth of its flying taxi Read More...