Tag Archives: strange
Clean Energy From Man-Made Tornadoes
Is it possible to transform the awesome power of tornadoes into a viable alternative energy source? Paypal co-founder and early Facebook backer Peter Thiel thinks so. The Thiel Foundation’s Breakout Labs program just gave Canadian company AVEtec Energy Corporation a $300,000 grant to develop the prototype for a system that uses man-made tornadoes to produce [...]
Will Tesla Motors Change the World?
It’s a little bit mind-boggling to think that only a century ago, cars were just starting to become available to the average man. Fast forward to today and almost everyone in the modern world has a vehicle, if not two. Cars have become one of the most ubiquitous and important pieces of technology that we [...]
The 4 Most Surprising Places You’ll Find Solar Power
Since starting to write for this blog, I’ve become more attuned to solar PV installations all around me … and they really are everywhere, along with cool solar products, references to renewable energy (especially with Earth Day coming up this month) and exciting new solar technologies. I laughed out loud when I realized I was [...]