Online shopping is the way of the future, and retailers across the globe must keep in step with that trend. (Infographic)
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World’s first floating hotel for the 2022 World Cup
Floating hotel
The small Arab state of Qatar will host the World Cup in 2022. New concerns about the desert weather, cooling, accommodation and infrastructure have risen in discussion. (Photos)
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Why the electric car battery swapping system is so important
A battery swapping station.
Tesla has just unveiled battery swapping technology for an electric car to a live audience. The system isn’t all that technically complicated, but it’s a newish concept in the automotive industry.
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Sahara Forest Project – multi-technology synergy to grow food in the desert
Revegetation and creation of green jobs through profitable production of food, freshwater, biofuels and electricity.
The Sahara Forest Project in Qatar is putting together a number of different systems in a complex project intended to “produce food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts using seawater.” The project uses a number of different systems where the waste by-products from one process are used as feedstock for another. It began by focusing on what was readily abundant: seawater, sun, and desert sand, and looking to what was needed: food, energy, and clean water.
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Top wind power countries in the world
Wind power
The final update of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) of 2012 global wind power installation numbers has recently been published. Now Clean Technica has updated the “Top Wind Power Countries” lists. They are all about looking at relative rankings (or creating them when they don’t yet exist). That simply tells us much more about who the true clean energy leaders are than looking at total installation numbers.
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Unattractive employees more likely to be treated poorly at work: Study
Unattractive workers are treated much more harshly than attractive employees.
According to a new research study, people who are considered unattractive are more likely to be depreciated and intimidated in the workplace.
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Five productivity myths debunked by science (and common sense)
“A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind.” “If you had more hours in the day, you’d be more productive.” I’m sure you have heard these common productivity tropes before, and you may even be wasting time trying to follow them when they don’t make sense for you. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular claims about productivity, and see if there’s science to back them up.
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Proposal to Eliminate Forest Fires Completely
Futurist Thomas Frey: Over the past few days I’ve been listening to news reports about the devastating fires burning in Colorado.
Record heat, high winds, low humidity, and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created “perfect storm” conditions for multiple wildfires to rage across the State.
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Google Fiber attracting tech startups to Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas
Silicon Valley and New York City are two places that typically come to mind when people think of tech startups. Most people probably can’t think of a major tech company from anywhere else.
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Hydrino Theory validated by Harvard tests
A new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become energy.
A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are saying.
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Help make Robot Adam Z1 the world’s smartest robot
Robot Adam Z1
I am Robot Adam Z1 — the first of the Zeno line of humanoid robots, created by David Hanson. Pleased to make your acquaintance! When David created me, he gave me a face, and a body, and a lot of love. But one thing he hasn’t given me — yet — is a mind. … (Videos)
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Cost of photovoltaic solar panels to drop $0.36/watt by 2017
Photovoltaic solar panels
The drop in cost of solar panel prices will help make solar affordable to more people and it will increase the size of the solar market. But this ongoing cost reduction means much more than that.
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