I would love to make these kind of movies! If you’ve ever wanted to build your own electric car, Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk just gave you the blueprint and wants you to go ahead and do it. In an astonishing move, Musk announced on the Tesla website that he was open-sourcing the technology patents used in his designs and wrote “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” In other words, take the technology, tweak it and make it better. A major manufacture – automobile or otherwise – telling the public to please use their technology without threat of lawsuit is almost unheard of. Typically, automakers like Ford and Honda guard their patents from each other (and the public) behind hundreds of lawyers. The conventional thinking is that once your competitor has your technology, they can use it against you and profits would plummet. Musk doesn’t see it that way. “We think the market is plenty big enough for everyone,” Musk writes. “If we can do things that don’t hurt us and help the U.S. industry, we should do that.” Musk doesn’t see other electric cars being much of a threat any time soon – the market accounts for less than 1% of all vehicles sold in the U.S. – but it’s a gambit which may help start putting the squeeze on gasoline-powered competitors.
Coal plants would be able to spew unlimited amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere if legislation introduced by a notoriously pro-coal Democrat were signed into law, and the Environmental Protection Agency would not be able to do anything to stop it.
Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) on Tuesday introduced the Protection and Accountability Regulatory Act of 2014, which would nullify proposed rules recently announced by the EPA limiting carbon pollution from existing coal plants. Rahall’s bill would also nullify other proposed EPA regulations limiting carbon pollution from new coal plants, modified coal plants, and reconstructed coal plants unless Congress specifically acts to allow them. “The EPA needs to get their head out of the clouds and come back down to Earth where the rest of us must live and work,” Rahall said in a statement. “We don’t need more regulation to solve our energy challenges—we need more innovation.” The legislation comes a little more than a week after President Obama and the EPA unveiled their rule to set caps on carbon emissions from existing power plants, a move widely seen as the most significant thing the U.S. has ever done to fight the direct cause of climate change. Though the rule sets a national goal of a 30 percent emissions reduction from 2005 levels by 2030, it only requires West Virginia to make a 20 percent reduction in that time. West Virginia is allowed to make its own plan to meet that goal, whether it be by investing in cleaner technology like solar and wind, or lowering electricity demand through efficiency projects. It was just last week that we saw the cheapest assembled 3D printer become available to consumers around the world. That was when New Matter’s MOD-t 3D printer launched their Crowdfunding Campaign. Priced at $149 for the first 500 backers, $199 for the next 500, and $249 for the rest, it proved that 3D printers could be cheap enough for most consumers to at least consider purchasing. One man, by the name of Tarkun Gelstronic has taken this a step further. He put himself out on a mission to create a 3D printer for less than $100. What he came up with was really quite amazing. Gelstronic didn’t just want to create any 3D printer that he could; he wanted to create a quality 3D printer that could print in multiple materials and include a heat bed. Keeping the price under $100 didn’t even seem to be all that challenging for Gelstronic. The only parts that he ended up purchasing, were the Arduino Board Mega 2560 (10 Euro), a Stackable Motor Driver Shield (6 Euro), a Hotend (20 Euro), PTFE tube (6 Euro), a fan (2 Euro), and some additional small parts (5 Euro). Read the Article Here Latest research and next project is on Crystal Cells. Basically never depleting batteries.
Big thanks to LaserSaber for re-igniting the spark on this. Slowly adding more and more info, but as I do so I'll need some feedback. Hopefully this whole idea or at least some part peeks someone interest. I mean, the cure for most every cancer and disease, the solution for basically every major problem in the world, and even a fix for every personal issue and so much more, but would turn their head for that? we'll see...
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