The power shortages, brown-outs, and rolling blackouts that have long plagued Los Angeles county during times of peak energy usage may soon be a thing of the past now that the region’s energy utility has signed on with battery-maker AES Southland to install a massive, 400MW auxiliary power solution. Read more…
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A California Power Plant Is Getting the World’s Biggest Lithium Battery
If you tried to visit Craigslist late Sunday night, you probably had a very weird experience. Instead of arriving at that sultry sea of classifieds, you were probably sent to DigitalGangster.com . Then, you were likely redirected to YouTube, where a very strange animated rap video filled your ears with lyrics about freedom, privacy, and net neutrality. Read more…
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The Bizarre Story Behind Last Night’s Craigslist Hack
It used to be that scientists all agreed that it was impossible to achieve temperatures below absolute zero, but now they realise that’s not entirely true. This video explains how you can reach temperatures below absolute zero. Read more…
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How You Can Get Temperatures Below Absolute Zero
Hydrogen fuel cells are a cool technology that were perfected to enable humans to go to the moon. Now that they’re perfected even more, they’re enabling humans to go to work or the liquor store, and, incredibly, this is progress. The Toyota Mirai is an example of this remarkable progress. Funny looking, maybe, but it works. Read more…
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The Next Prius? What It’s Like To Drive Toyota’s $57,000 Hydrogen Car
Leather is beautiful and luxurious and natural and one of the great materials of the world. However, it’s absolutely gross to make. Here’s the process of tanning raw hide into high quality leather. You’ll see gray goops, a lot of residue, dumps of bizarre liquids and more. Worth it? I guess. Read more…
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The process of turning raw cow hide into leather is really gross
This Earth video created by James Tyrwhitt-Drake using footage from the Elektro-L weather satellite —a Russian satellite that takes one 121 megapixel image of Earth every 30 minutes—is the highest resolution video of our home planet ever created. Watch it in all its 4K glory here. Read more…
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The most accurate, highest resolution video of Earth ever made
The world’s tallest roller coaster won’t even be made until 2017 and this is just a demo video of what the roller coaster is going to feel like but I’m already scared. Skyscraper at Skyplex in Orlando will be the tallest roller coaster in the world at over 500 feet tall and you ride the thing all. the. way. down. Read more…
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The first demo video of the world’s tallest roller coaster is terrifying
Earlier this year, Thom Yorke released his new album on BitTorrrent , selling it in a package that had to be paid for. Now, BitTorrent will let any artist release an album as a paid-for bundle. Read more…
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BitTorrent Now Lets Anyone Release an Album as a Paid-For Bundle
When most of us think of “rare blood, ” we think of Type O-negative. But it turns out there are far, far rarer types than that. In Filton, England, there’s a lab that handles blood donations from across the UK—and identifies this super-rare blood. Read more…
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Inside the Blood Factory That Keeps Track of the World’s Rare Donors
Thanks to the internet, there are now more ways than ever to get music. But this hasn’t allowed smaller artists to get a bigger share of the financial pie. In fact, the top 1 percent of artists now collect 77 percent of all revenue from recorded music. Read more…
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1 percent of recording artists earn 77 percent of recorded music revenue