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Plastics + Fire - Poisons = Fun
Ever been curious about what’s in your plastic? The fellas at NYCResistor (a DIY group, not an underground insurgency) have a handy video to show us if you’ve got some PVC on your hands. Their version uses a small blowtorch and some bare copper wire. This is infinitely safer than some other methods I’ve heard [...]
GT Product Review: Kill-A-Watt
One of the features we’ve meant to start adding to the site was reviews of green products. Today’s product might not be as cool as an electric roadster, and probably wasn’t made with the ultra-green purity of an organic lip balm, but it is an essential tool for anyone looking at cutting a few bucks [...]
This is how much Tesla is commited to safety
Following in the footsteps … or skid marks of the Killa Cycle, a Tesla engineer (or soon-to-be-fired parking vallet) managed to smash this baby in live traffic. Whether or not this was an extremely hardcore safety test has not been determined. Nor has there been any word on whether ejected carbon-fiber counts as a carbon [...]
*Texas is approximately 269 thousand square miles.
I’ve read about the North Pacific Gyre before but I got really attached working on a coming project for Greener Trends. Hearing about how bad it was, I had to see it. It’s pretty prohibitive to do so, but I was hoping that the great power of the Internet would come through. Most of my [...]
Printing Solar Cells
Silicon electronics are made in a method similar to developing a photograph. You have a certain material (a silicon substrate) that you layer with a chemical that reacts to UV light. You shine something like an overhead projection onto the chip and the silicon you want to keep stays while the parts you want gone dissolve. The process is fantastic for our ever-shrinking phones and electronic devices, but the substrate has to be very pure (down to the atom) which is hard to do for something the size of a window. It’s also a time and money consuming [...]
