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The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility envisages a controversial new way to be pregnant, with the baby growing in an idealized, but completely inhuman environment: transparent “growth pods” arranged by their hundreds in human baby farming operations.Con… Continue reading Womb with a view: EctoLife baby farm eliminates pregnancy and labor
Sweden’s Eco Wave Power has been proving its relatively simple, jetty-mounted wave energy devices for at least 10 years now, and has now inked a conditional deal for a 77-megawatt installation in Turkey – the world’s largest wave power plant.Continue R… Continue reading Eco Wave Power signs concession for world’s largest wave power station
The Huracan Sterrato is an odd duck indeed: a fancy Italian supercar fettled up for light dirt-squirting. But bicycle company 3T sees the Sterrato as the perfect metaphor for its high-end gravel bikes, so it’s gone ahead and tarted one up to match.Cont… Continue reading 3T releases a gravel bike inspired by Lamborghini’s nuttiest Huracan
Toyota is keeping its bases covered moving into the zero-emissions era, and alongside battery EVs, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell electrics, it’s now announced a road-going hydrogen combustion concept for folk that want to go green wit… Continue reading Toyota takes its hydrogen-burning race engine to the street
We’ve known for decades that billions of dollars’ worth of battery-relevant metals like copper, manganese, cobalt and nickel are literally sitting around on the seafloor out in the deep ocean, in giant fields of “polymetallic nodules” that look just li… Continue reading Impossible Metals demonstrates its super-careful seabed mining robot
Kit helicopter manufacturer RotorX has stepped into the personal eVTOL fray with its own take on the manned multicopter. The Dragon promises to zip you around at up to 63 mph (101 km/h), with joystick control, auto-landing, and a ballistic parachute.Co… Continue reading RotorX opens pre-orders on its kit-build ultralight personal eVTOL
We’d all like to think we go fast on the weekend, but Polaris sales manager Eric Borgen has the ultimate proof: it turns out he’s been stuffing about with his buddies in the Arizona desert at a Baja 1000-winning pace.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotiv… Continue reading Regional sales manager gets roped into driving the Baja 1000, wins it
It looks like the world won’t be able to produce enough lithium to feed the accelerating EV revolution. Not by a long way. And while we see all manner of alternative battery technologies in our line of work, it’s not clear that within the next 5-10 yea… Continue reading Awesome-looking SUV cleverly sidesteps hydrogen’s biggest problem
Aura Aerospace has proposed a crazy new take on advanced air mobility. The five-seat Ranger looks like Darth Vader’s shuttle when it’s folded up, but it promises to fly further than any normal airliner, with roof-to-roof vertical takeoff and landing.Co… Continue reading Intercontinental hybrid VTOL could fly halfway around the world
Airbus says it’s on track to have a fully operational megawatt-class electric powertrain, fueled by cryogenic liquid hydrogen, tested in flight by 2026, ahead of a full-scale zero-emissions passenger airliner it plans to put into service by 2035.Contin… Continue reading Airbus looks to run full-size airliners on liquid hydrogen by 2035