So, as I mention to the writers on this site every time you talk about patents, you get it wrong.

I could take a lot less. Imagine your autonomous driven car takes you an intersection in a sketchy neighborhood. A few miscreants quickly show up with card boxes weighted enough to withstand the wind. In a few seconds you would be in a cardboard stockade that the autonomous driving system would be powerless to…

There are busses that duplicate much of the subway routes for one. They could leave the prices for busses where they are. A bigger question is whether the public should subsidize eternally the decisions of those who choose to live far away from their job. Historians have long regaled the spirit of American pioneers…

Huston has space to expand, but no suburbs.

I have lived in both, and there is meaningfully less racism in Houston, and what racism is there is much less insidious than in Chicago.

This is a great stepforward. One of the first reactors to be built using containment and cooling that don’t rely on any kind of mechanical or human involvement. If something happens, natural forces cause the core to be safely shut down and contained. It would take a site wide event like devistating earthquake, volcano…

Still made of Borosilicate glass in Europe under the Corning name. So it just appears to be another example of the American consumer getting less while our European friends get and expect more.

The potential for this is HUGE! Essentially this could be installed for zero weight gain. Replace the standard battery with a high capacity lithium battery and replace the starter with this new motor. The motor can act as the starter and probably not add any weight to the plane.

This is a great idea that needs to be…

Wouldn’t this necessarily also include massive improvements in battery tech? The good thing about coal and natgas is that they’re immediately responsive to changes in frequency - wind and solar aren’t. For us to move to a grid that’s not backed by peaker plants, we’d have to completely revolutionize the way we store…

Just like the Miata is 90% the fun of a Boxster for half the cost? Porsche Turbo S is 90% of the Ferrari V12 for half the cost.

The CRX Si also had great chassis tuning and Lotus-like lightness.

This isn’t making the first airplane. We already have better solutions to the problems this solar bike path is trying to solve. I provide one halfway down the article.

A little info I heard from some friends: the renovation of Mecca is being pushed by the Wahhabi sect, which is an ultraconservative sect of Islam that basically controls Saudi Arabia, and they’re intentionally destroying historic sites because, in their eyes, reverence of the history of the prophet is equivalent to…

The bottom of lake mead is not Flat.Its hard to pick a “low” spot. Also all these “straws” are gravity powered. The power needed to raise the water via a real “straw” would equal the power generated by the dam and be pointless. This they need to dig sideways and use altitude to have a gravity powered water supply.

I should also add, what is great about using a 3rd party hub rather than one designed for the system you are buying is that it bridges the protocols. I can have an x10 motion sensor trigger an insteon lightswitch or a Z-wave siren. You can’t do that with the hubs that come with most of these packaged products because…

Automation 101:

Eric, it's bad enough when the NSFW articles have accompanying graphics that we don't have the option to click away at work, but is 28 point FUCK really necessary in the headline? You write good articles, this gratuitous profanity is totally unnecessary. (It isn't necessary in the body of the article either, but…

Nice to see this finally! I was stationed at the Naval Base Point Loma (Subbase) as a dock master for the 2 years that this little sucker was there.