Smart Cities

Jeffrey Berns, CEO of Blockchains LLC, a lawyer and cryptocurrency millionaire bought 67,000 acres of desert land in northern Nevada, near Reno, for $170 million in 2018.

Traffic woes in one of America’s most congested city, Los Angeles? This may not last too long as the potential future of public transit is here!

It’s been a long time coming, but an automotive company claims that they are ready to bring on their hybrid air-to-road vehicle to market. This group, Terrafugia, has been working on the concept for close to a decade now.

Tesla has just revealed their eagerly awaited new electric truck. The Tesla Semi is due to start production in 2019 with CEO Elon Musk suggesting that “it’s not like any truck that you’ve ever driven.” So what makes it so special?

In just the UK alone, there are an estimated 7,000 road traffic accidents at pedestrian crossings each year, which of course are always been considered the safest way to cross a road.

We’ve all heard a lot about Elon Musk and the future plans of his companies, particularly that of SpaceX, in recent times. For example, SpaceX’s next generation is reportedly going to bring extraterrestrial travel – and maybe even colonisation – to the masses in the next decade. Tesla, on the other hand, may have more down-to-earth goals.

Solar energy involves using highly-specialised and engineered power cells to harvest the energy of sunlight and convert it into electricity that can be used by conventional appliances. Over the last 20 years, this concept has morphed from an unlikely pipe dream into a nearly-standard component of energy use in new buildings. Installations of sunlight-collecting panels in large numbers have become part of the everyday electricity grid in several countries, including China and Spain.

Imagine driving your electric car on a long road trip across the country, without ever having to worry about checking your route for charging stations. Scientists and researchers are working hard to turn this scenario into reality and here, we take a closer and more detailed look at the technology behind the concept of being able to wirelessly charge electric cars.

It’s been a busy week for the Hyperloop One transport system. First, a student competition resulted in the winning entrant reaching seriously impressive speeds, a Space X/Tesla test pods then broke that record.

Currently, one of the major drawback of electric cars is that they have a relatively small range of travel before they need to be recharged. This can take several hours which definitely cuts into the time required to travel long distances. Couple this with an expensive price tag and it seems as though it’s still going to take a bit more time before electric cars become more mainstream.

Although it may be a fact that newer properties run on lesser energy, the amount of emissions, especially CO2, released by homes and buildings are still considerably greater than it should be for our planet.

Solar farms made of multiple large-scale panels are becoming increasingly efficient. This, in turn, is influencing their popularity as an alternative energy source for regional and national power grids. Despite this, a range of environmental particles and dirt types can impact on the ability of solar panels to gather energy.