Not long ago, Germany’s car industry was a driving force of innovation. Today, it’s struggling to keep up. Its hesitant embrace of electric vehicles could prove an existential mistake. Because around the world, the market for e-cars has picked up speed. Not long ago, Germany’s car industry
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The first step in an engine build is the teardown. Let’s see what we have to work with on our mission to make 1000HP.
As new science fuels the debate about cellphone safety, we take a closer look at a little known message inside your cellphone’s settings and manual telling you to keep the device 5 to 15 mm away from your body. We ask why this message exists, why it’s so
Both the US and China are ramping up production of imports they are traditionally reliant on importing from their trading partner. China is developing the technology to make them less reliant on Western digital chips for its booming digital economy but it is still years away from becoming self-sufficient in
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black Over 1 million people sign up to ‘storm’ Area 51, the U.S military base thought by tin-foil hatters to contain extra-terrestrial beings. Vaccination rates fall across the western world after anti-vaxxers cause ‘vaccination hesitancy’ among parents. Twisted white guys obsessed
This is the story of America’s massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America’s most advanced machinery – the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines – all have parts made on these giant machines!
We get a ton of people wondering if using online satellite maps is cheating and ruining the sport of fishing. Yes, online maps are shortcuts to spending hours on the water finding fishing spots, but aren’t Power-Poles just shortcuts to throwing a heavy, noisy anchor? And aren’t fish
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Dr. Robert Epstein told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday that Google can manipulate votes by using tools that they have at their disposal exclusively, and that no one can counteract them. Epstein warned the senator of big tech election meddling during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
I filmed some running miniature engines. In the video you can see the details of the engine and listen the sound during the start up and revving. In order: – 1917 Caterpillar Holt 75 – scale 1:8 – 1921 Moto Guzzi Normale – scale 1:2 – 1954 Fiat 55 CL – scale 1:6
Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars’ production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars
Solar roads in France and the US trialled and failed miserably, but the Dutch in the land of the bicycle exceeded their projected solar power generation from an experimental 70-meter-long solar bicycle lane. “They had originally hoped to produce somewhere between 50 and 70 kW?h per square meter per
