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Science
Allergy Warning: The ITER Fusion Facility Contains Coconuts
12:40PM Rosa Golijan | It’ll be a while before the first commercially viable fusion facility, ITER in France, is powered up. But before that can even ever happen, there’s a need for a massive amount of coconut-shell charcoal which’ll absorb byproducts of thermonuclear reactions. More »
Science
Obama $US8b Plan To Modernise The US Power Grid
4:15AM Jesus Diaz | Oh, Sr. Presidente, you look so goooood in the middle of the largest photovoltaic farm in the country — the 180-acre DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy centre in Tampa, Florida. Maybe that’s why you want to put solar panels everywhere. More »
Gadgets
Dell’s New Solar Parking Lot
4:21AM Chris Jacob | Think about how hot your car gets on a sunny day. Dell decided to harvest all that wasted energy by installing these solar panels in their parking lot. Now they’re keeping cars cool and putting that sunlight to good use. More »
Screens
Sony Getting Closer To TVs With No Cables Whatsoever
3:28AM Jesus Diaz | This TV has absolutely no cables connected to it. No video cable. No audio cable. And no power cable. How’s this wicked sorcery possible? Thanks to Sony’s new Wireless Power Transfer technology, which can send 60 watts over the air. More »
Vehicles
NASA Is Running Out Of Space Fuel, No Refills In Sight
3:00PM Adrian Covert | So apparently, NASA needs this itsy-bitsy little thing called Plutonium-238 to make their deep-space rocketships go ZoOOOooOoOooM ZooOOOOoMM, but they’re running out of it and need congress to drop $US30 million to help make more. More »
Gadgets
Backpack Generates 40 Watts Just By Walking
1:20AM Jesus Diaz | Defense Tech’s Bryant Jordan was at the Disneyland of military gadgetry—the Modern Day Marine event at Quantico—and came across this power-generating backpack, which has stepped from prototype to reality. It can generate 40 watts just by walking. More »
Peripherals
Belkin Conserve Surge Kills Sleeping Gadgets
11:00PM Mark Wilson | Many electronics still use a lot of power when “off”. So the Belkin Conserve Surge puts their energy leeching on a timer. More »
Random Stuff
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind Against All Odds
4:20PM Rosa Golijan | We seldom post about books at Gizmodo, but if this story of a self-taught Malawian boy using junkyard parts to build windmills and bring life-changing electricity to his village doesn’t make you misty-eyed, then you must be one cold-hearted bastard. More »
Science
7:40AM Wilson Rothman | Perpetual motion machines are a thing of fantasy/delusion, but there’s a lot of energy floating around that doesn’t cost anything to harvest. The calculator and weather station shown here run off of microwaves from that TV tower in the distance. More »
Yes, There Is Such A Thing As “Free” Energy
7:40AM Wilson Rothman | Perpetual motion machines are a thing of fantasy/delusion, but there’s a lot of energy floating around that doesn’t cost anything to harvest. The calculator and weather station shown here run off of microwaves from that TV tower in the distance. More »
Gadgets
