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The Next Industrial Revolution Starts In This Shipping Container
The guys at Re-Char — a small startup that makes carbon-neutral products — were faced with a problem. They wanted to ship products to Kenya, but the options available were wasteful, costly, and not nearly as efficient as simply manufacturing near to the customers. To do it, in a place with little industry or infrastructure,…
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Monster Machines: World’s Biggest Wind Turbine Blades Spin At 290km/h
For offshore wind farms to become an economically feasible alternative energy source, each turbine needs to be big. Like, really big. That’s why the latest turbine blade from Siemens is gigantic — just a hair shorter than the wingspan of an Airbus 380.
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Apple Computers Are No Longer Eco-Friendly
Although Apple typically lauds itself for being green, it has decided to stop adhering to environmentally friendly standards. According to the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), the standard for green consumer electronics, Apple has pulled all 39 of its computers from being certified.
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This Is How Much Water It Takes To Make Jeans, Burgers, Pizza And Other Stuff
Even though water covers nearly three-quarters of this blue dot of ours, most of that is salt water. We need freshwater to fuel the world. And freshwater is not as limitless as it seems, so wasting is it a no no. Here’s how much water we use to make, well, the things we use.