Sunshine beats down on north-west WA in abundance. Why then, has there been such a limited take up of solar energy in remote communities? n short the answer is money, with remote Kimberley communities having difficulty accessing capital funding. Other reasons for a lack of uptake seem to lie in ineffective government policy and the communities' limited administrative resources.
As I shared in my very first piece, the decision-making diet, a big part of my daily routine is exercise. I’m constantly looking for better ways to improve my body and wellbeing. Technology is a huge motivator, I use my iPhone to check my program, log my workouts and check my heart rate. But it requires some effort to monitor everything manually.
Wearing shaggy beards, wire-rimmed glasses and T-shirts with silk-screened start-up logos, they look like your average 20-something coders. The young men huddle in the midday sun, smoking cigarettes, sipping coffee out of paper cups, scrolling through iPhones.
Today, in the desert outside Las Vegas, a start-up called Hyperloop One performed the world's first full-scale test of hyperloop technology, and demonstrated that their propulsion system really works. According to reports, the motor inside their short test track was able to successfully accelerate a cart from 0 to 96 km/h (60 mph) in 1 second, generating a force of 2.5 Gs.
DES MOINES, Iowa -- New technology is pushing the latest model cars in directions never thought possible outside of science fiction. But, the latest vehicle models are moving closer and closer to being able to drive without you behind the wheel, thanks to the state of Iowa.