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The Most Powerful Tidal Turbine To Date Produces Clean, Reliable Energy Off the Scottish Coast

Earlier this year, the world’s most powerful tidal turbine launched off the Orkney coast, where it will spend the next 15 years generating enough clean energy to power about 2,000 households in the U.K. “O2” is the novel development of the … Continue reading

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Traveling the Trans-Siberian in the 3rd class train // Russian platzkart

Hello my friends! In this vlog I will take an eight-hour train journey to my hometown, Spassk. The town is located just on the last stretch of the Trains-Siberian Railway, the one from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok. The type of train … Continue reading

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Magnetic Cement Highway That Could Charge Moving EVs To Be Tested – DesignTAXI.com

The trial highway will be made out of magnetic cement. The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), in partnership with Purdue University, has signed up to the ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainability through Power Infrastructure for Road Electrification) initiative. Funded by the National … Continue reading

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Astonishing Viral Video Shows an “Eye of Fire” Raging on the Gulf of Mexico

🚨 Sobre el incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de México, en la Sonda de Campeche, a unos metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integral de Producción Ku Maloob Zaap) Tres barcos han apoyado para sofocar las llamas … Continue reading

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Corona’s consequences – how the pandemic is changing globalization | DW Documentary

Around the world, pandemic-related lockdowns have hit our globalized economy hard. Supply chains have been disrupted, industries crippled. The coronavirus has laid bare the risks of global interconnectedness. Is the crisis the beginning of the end of globalization? In early … Continue reading

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Finland’s Public Libraries Are the Best & Offer More Than Just Books

“Library services are an investment in people.” Ranked number one on the World Happiness Report since 2018, Finland seems to have it all together. With a government that invests so highly in the overall wellbeing of its citizens, it is … Continue reading

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U.S. officials recover $2.3 million in crypto used to pay ransom in Colonial Pipeline hack

Bitcoin’s price slipped again Tuesday. The reason for the move was unclear, however it may be related to concerns over security of the cryptocurrency after U.S. officials managed to recover most of the ransom paid to hackers that targeted Colonial … Continue reading

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China’s competition for living space | DW Documentary

More than 60 percent of China’s population of 1.4 billion currently lives in cities. Within a decade, the share of urban dwellers is expected to increase to 75 percent. Construction is booming and competition for residential land is fierce. But … Continue reading

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World Longest Power Submarine Cable To Connect $25BN Wind Solar Complex in Morocco To The UK Grid

British company Xlinks, has announced plans to build 10.5 Giga Watts of wind and solar parks in Morocco and sell the generated power in the UK. According to the company’s CEO, Simon Morrish, in an interview with PV magazine, this … Continue reading

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These Thorium Reactors Could Power Civilization for Millions of Years

[…]Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors Can Unlock the Atom in a safe way while producing a fraction of the waste that current reactors do. Do we stand at the dawn of another Atomic Age?[…]

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