Archive for the ‘environmental’ category: Page 16
Jun 21, 2016
Elon Musk Aims to Shore Up SolarCity by Having Tesla Buy It — By Michael J. de la Merced and Peter Eavis | The New York Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, Elon Musk, energy, environmental, sustainability, transportation
” … Tesla Motors said on Tuesday that it had offered to buy SolarCity in an all-stock deal, one that could value the latter at as much as $2.8 billion. The aim, Mr. Musk argues, is to create a renewable-energy giant, collecting clean electricity and putting it to work propelling cars.”
Tags: Electric vehicles, SolarCity, Tesla
Jun 14, 2016
These Experiments Are Building the Case to Terraform Mars
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: engineering, environmental, space
Maybe the researchers needs to meet with the professor out in University of WA who has been experimenting in shifting weather patterns such as making some areas have more rains while other areas not have as much rain.
If we want to live on Mars, we need to make it warm and wet again.
Jun 9, 2016
Adidas Spins Plastic from the Ocean into Awesome Kicks — By Margaret Rhodes | Wired
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, environmental
“That thread comes from a company called Parley for the Oceans, and it’s special, spun from plastic waste and old fishing nets retrieved from the coast of Africa.”
Tag: Oceans
May 17, 2016
Faraday Future Says Its Tesla Competitor Could Get 30% Better Battery Range — By Mike Brown | Inverse
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, transportation
“Speaking to The Verge, Farady Future’s vice president of global marketing Dag Reckhorn said that the company has big plans to beat the competition on distance per battery charge. The company plans to release its first car within the next two years.”
Apr 24, 2016
How Do We Terraform Jupiter’s Moons?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: engineering, environmental, space
Jupiter’s four largest moons — the Galileans — have long been considered as possible sites for human habitation, and even terraforming.
Apr 21, 2016
Post-Paris: Taking Forward the Global Climate Change Deal | Chatham House
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, geopolitics, governance, government, law, policy, science, sustainability, treaties
“Inevitably, the compromises of the Paris Agreement make it both a huge achievement and an imperfect solution to the problem of global climate change.”
Apr 17, 2016
Venus Terraforming Corporation
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: engineering, environmental, space
Apr 13, 2016
The Case for Optimism on Climate Change — Al Gore | TED
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: environmental
Tag: climate change
Apr 8, 2016
Why fossil fuel power plants will be left stranded — By Martin Wolf | Financial Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, disruptive technology, education, energy, environmental, governance, law, sustainability
“Virtually all new fossil fuel-burning power-generation capacity will end up “stranded”. This is the argument of a paper by academics at Oxford university. We have grown used to the idea that it will be impossible to burn a large portion of estimated reserves of fossil fuels if the likely rise in global mean temperatures is to be kept below 2C. But fuels are not the only assets that might be stranded. A similar logic can be applied to parts of the capital stock.”