Solar panels and homeowners’ associations don’t always agree.  Even in California, one of the states with protection for solar rights, lawsuits occur that decide against the homeowner. …

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WiTricity Corp is seemingly following Tesla’s work in wireless power transmission. Their “WiTricity” technology is nowadays capable of wirelessly transferring power by using magnetic resonance over several meters.

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Concrete is one of the best materials the world has ever seen - you can see it everywhere. The problem is that when you want to dispose it, you suddenly have a problem - a big one. The same story goes with scrap tires - once used, they can hardly be dispensed of, or, in the best of cases - recycled.

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Engineers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Florida State University are closer than ever to launching a new generation of high-field magnet, being 3,000 times stronger than an ordinary refrigerator magnet and will be able to generate a field about 45% more powerful than the strongest superconducting magnet currently available.

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Markus Mueller and Alasdair McDonald of the University of Edinburgh solved one of the fundamental engineering issues faced by builders of offshore wind turbines. They developed a new electric generator that is much cheaper, lighter and reliable than anything seen up to now in the industry.

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