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Swedish plants getting a fancy new skyscraper

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 3:42pm

Plantagon, a Swedish company that makes greenhouses, is happy to remind us all that by 2050, nine billion people will be living on Earth, seven billion of them will be living in cities, and every single one of them is going to be hungry a lot of the time. Plantagon has the solution in the form of skyscrapers for plants. Tasty plants. And they're building one.

Tesla Model X offers iPad-style dash and Back To The Future doors

Adario Strange

Friday, February 10, 2012 - 4:20am

Whenever a company names its product with an "X" we generally expect something really cool and groundbreaking. In the case of the just unveiled Tesla Model X, that's exactly what we got, but it might be hard to notice upon first glance.

Super insulation is fire retardant and as edible as oatmeal

Adario Strange

Friday, February 3, 2012 - 3:51am

Remember those dire warnings years ago from you parents to avoid touching that pink fluffy insulation in your home? Well if one company has its way, such warnings will become a thing of the past.

Solar power cheaper than fossil fuels for 1.3 billion people

Evan Ackerman

Friday, January 27, 2012 - 1:33pm

Here in the U.S., we're used to thinking about solar power as one of those happy eco-friendly things that we'd all totally be using except for the fact that it's so much more expensive than fossil fuels. In the developing world, though, it's exactly the opposite: solar power is gaining ground with 1.3 billion people simply because it's the cheapest way to go.

Let's pour tons of water into an active volcano to generate power

Evan Ackerman

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 1:27pm

Chalk this up under things that sort of seem like terrible ideas: geothermal energy developers are planning to pump millions of gallons of water into an active volcano in Oregon to see if they can somehow generate electricity without angering the gods.

Automated kiosk turns discarded gadgets into instant cash

Adario Strange

Monday, January 16, 2012 - 1:13am

The problem of what to do with discarded electronic devices has been a growing but largely ignored issue. But one veteran technologist may have come up with the perfect solution: automated recycling for cash.

EV car looks like a Japanese toilet, but gets insane mileage

Adario Strange

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 2:12am

If you decided to take the design dynamics of a speedboat mixed with a fancy Japanese toilet and apply them to an electric vehicle, you just might get something as oddly futuristic looking as the Sim-Lei car.

Reward recycling offers incentives for dead bulbs, batteries

Eileen Marable

Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 8:46am

We all know we shouldn't throw light bulbs or batteries in the trash, but how to recycle them often remains a mystery. One option is the boxes at big chain stores, but soon a safer and more enticing solution may be available: deposit them in a reverse vending machine and receiving an immediate reward for your trouble!

Aptera closes up shop, driveable sperm will have to wait

Evan Ackerman

Monday, December 5, 2011 - 12:47pm

Sad news for everyone who has ever wanted to drive a car shaped like a sperm down the highway: Aptera, who has been working on an ultra-efficient, ultra-futuristic space fighter on wheels, has run out of both time and money.

'Super yeast' gobbles up trees, spits out ethanol for biofuel

Travis Andrews

Monday, November 21, 2011 - 4:28pm

There has been some amazing advances in the fuel-world, such as airplanes being powered by cooking oil and other biofuels being used to replace gasoline. Along the lines of the latter, we're now eyeing trees as a source to help lessen our reliance on dead dinosaurs.

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Swedish plants getting a fancy new skyscraper

Tesla Model X offers iPad-style dash and Back To The Future doors

Super insulation is fire retardant and as edible as oatmeal

Solar power cheaper than fossil fuels for 1.3 billion people

Let's pour tons of water into an active volcano to generate power

Automated kiosk turns discarded gadgets into instant cash

EV car looks like a Japanese toilet, but gets insane mileage

Reward recycling offers incentives for dead bulbs, batteries

Aptera closes up shop, driveable sperm will have to wait

'Super yeast' gobbles up trees, spits out ethanol for biofuel

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