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A Yellow Submarine in Every Garage?

The rich and famous are now buying private submarines. Good or bad for the environment? Brian explores. My search for bamboo yarn took me to...

3D Printing Lessons from Ancient Egyptian Ceramic Art

None of Egypt’s pyramids existed.  Khafre wouldn’t commission the Great Pyramid of Giza for another 1500 years.  But some time around 4000 BCE an Egyptian...

Are LED lights a health hazard?

In teddy bears, iPhones and baby sleep monitors: turn off those LED lights at night before they affect your sleep cycles and health! Professor Abraham...

Peak Helium – Is the Party Over for this Resource?

Silver, gold, oil, stocks, bonds, real estate!  I won’t pretend to know more than the investment experts, but many people lost a lot of money...

Israel’s Sol Chip adds Solar Power to Microchips

Sol Chip’s technology will allow small devices to run indefinitely without replacing and disposing of those silly lithium batteries. A tale of two wafers: Both begin...

Bureaucracy Slows Israel’s Solar Energy Progress

Israel’s research labs such as National Solar Energy Center,  Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) and companies such as Zenith Solar and Arava Power Systems are...

A Planetary Conjunction With Giza’s Pyramids

A beautiful image is making the rounds on social networks and news websites.  It shows three bright planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn with each poised...

Better Place Sets Electric Car Record – 1172 Miles in 24 Hours

The 2012 summer Olympics are over but electric car marathons are beginning to heat up.  Israel’s Better Place smashed the 24 hour distance record of...

Egypt’s Electricity Suppliers Struggle to Meet Demand

On August 9th an electrical power outage hit people in parts of Cairo.  This happened only ten days after India’s massive blackout grew to cover...

Protei Designs Sailing Robots to Clean the Sea

It is estimated that BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster spilled 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.  Local fishermen and other cleanup workers...
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