Collaborate Disseminate
In the race to get humanity toward zero carbon emissions by 2050, the vast majority of efforts will rightly be focused on reducing emissions at their source. But there are areas where this simply won’t be possible, and as carbon taxes gradually rise ar… Continue reading High Hopes claims stratospheric breakthrough in direct air CO2 capture
Suggestively-named UK company Viritech has announced that it’s making an altogether different kind of male enhancement supplement than we’d have expected, in the form of a hydrogen-powered hypercar called the Apricale.Continue ReadingCategory: Automoti… Continue reading The Viritech Apricale: Britain’s own hydrogen-powered hypercar
The UK’s Department of Transport has announced that it’s moving to conditionally legalize self-driving cars in which the driver doesn’t have to pay attention to the road or keep their hands on the wheel, in a move that it expects will save lives.Contin… Continue reading UK prepares to conditionally legalize self-driving cars
One thing nearly all air taxi concepts share in common is fast-spinning propellers or ducted fans somewhere outside the aircraft’s fuselage, pushing air to develop thrust whichever way they’re pointed.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: … Continue reading Jetoptera VTOL aircraft design features “bladeless fans on steroids”
For about a decade now, Kaman’s K-Max intermeshing rotor helicopter has been flying unmanned cargo missions for US forces in Afghanistan. Now, the K-Max Titan is becoming the world’s first heavy-lift unmanned helicopter for the commercial market, havin… Continue reading K-Max Titan: The first commercial heavy-lift helicopter with no pilot
Small consumer-grade drones offer some pretty frightening opportunities for terrorists; indeed, while they’ve been used in some assassination attempts, and explored by ISIL as a way to remotely attack opponents in Syria, it’s really quite remarkable th… Continue reading Leonidas microwave energy weapon can disable swarms of drones at once
Scotland’s Orbital Marine Power (formerly Scotrenewables) has completed the build on what it claims will be the world’s most powerful operational tidal turbine. It’s now on its way to the Orkney Islands, where it’ll have a chance to prove its worth con… Continue reading Orbital launches O2, the “most powerful tidal turbine in the world”
A few days ago, two Texan men, aged 59 and 69, died in a bizarre road accident when their car, a 2019 Tesla Model S, ran off the road at high speed in a curve, hit a tree, and burst into a fireball that took four hours to fully extinguish. The shocking… Continue reading How much blame should Tesla accept if customers misuse its products?
It’s going to take decades to get aviation, shipping and long-haul transport down to zero emissions. The technology is embryonic right now, and some of these big vehicles are still in service 30 years after they’re first delivered, so even once the tec… Continue reading Infinium’s electrofuels: An instant zero-carbon path for big transport
Long-haul aviation, like everything else in the human world, needs to be totally decarbonized, and in the race to zero emissions for international airliners, liquid-hydrogen powertrains look like one of the only viable possibilities.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Airbus pioneers a superconducting powertrain cooled by liquid hydrogen