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A Man, a Plan, and a 1994 F-350 Jambulance

At around 3:35 a.m. on September 15, 2018, I got a flat tire on the Dempster Highway about 10 miles past Eagle Plains. I was headed north to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada, an Inuit hamlet on the coast of the Arctic Sea known to the locals as “Tuk.” In a whiff of butterfly effect chicanery, […]

What Technology Could Reduce Heat Deaths? Trees.

At the same time, American cities are facing a heat crisis: The largest are warming at twice the rate of the planet as a whole. ‘It’s hard for us to think of trees as actual infrastructure’ On an afternoon that felt too sweltering for June, a 14-year-old named Kiara Wright bent over a young honey […]

Rivian Cooks Up a Built-In Camp Kitchen for Its R1T Electric Pickup

Automakers are packing their upcoming electric pickup trucks with all kinds of useful and unexpected features, like the Hummer’s Crabwalk and the Ford F-150 Lightning’s offboard power setup. In a new Twitter video, Rivian’s CEO reminds us that the upcoming R1T will feature a Camp Kitchen in the vehicle’s modifiable Gear Tunnel. Two cooking elements, […]

THE BUILDING OF THE FUTURE – NEW HEADQUARTERS OF AALBERTS HYDRONIC FLOW CONTROL

Maximize sustainability potential of the new head office Designed with the utmost care for energy efficiency, the new headquarters office of Aalberts hydronic flow control is a green building with sustainable energy supply. The installations of our own hydronic balancing technology ensure that future-proofing buildings are no longer a challenge. In our new building, countless […]

MGM Resorts Wraps Up 100 MW Solar Project North of Las Vegas

MGM Resorts International has activated a 100 MW solar array in the desert north of Las Vegas, featuring 323,000 panels arranged across 640 acres. The company is the sole user of the renewable electricity generated, producing up to 90% of MGM Resorts’ Las Vegas daytime power needs, spanning 65 million […]

Kearsarge Deploys 34 MW of Solar in Rhode Island, Massachusetts

Kearsarge Energy has started commercial operations on over 34 MW of solar and battery energy storage project, consisting of 11 individual projects in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The company says these projects generate tax and lease revenues for New England municipalities and allow local governments, low-income housing developments, nonprofits, universities, local school systems, RI Public […]