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Space agencies such as NASA are constantly faced the issue of old satellites decaying in orbit and falling to Earth. Those that don’t stay in orbit around the Earth also create potential collision threats to spacecraft. As a result, many methods are being devised to safely destroy old satellites without causing more space junk and debris. These ideas range from a service s... weiterlesen...
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Read the rest of Solar-Powered Audubon Center Restores Nearby River and Immerses Visitors in the Phoenix Landscape
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This is one of the strangest and most deeply American tales I've read in a while: homeowners who can no longer afford (or be bothered with) the extensive, water-intensive lawn care that's required in many developments have simply started painting their dead front yards green. The whole thing moves beyond sad and into the Kafkaesque when you note that some of the developments in... weiterlesen...
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Sexy Concept Car, But Disappointing in Other Areas
Saab has introduced the PhoeniX AWD hybrid concept car in Geneva, saying that its architecture is the same as the one the next Saab 9-3 model will use. The all-wheel-drive hybrid features what Saab calls "aeromotional" design (I hope they don't use that word with a straight face -- I'm so tired of made up words crea... weiterlesen...
by Michael C. TaylorThe tale of the Emeco's 111 Navy chair is that of a phoenix rising. In 1944, the Hanover, Pennsylvania-based company began producing the original 1006 Navy chair. But despite supplying these chairs—the first to be made from 80 percent recycled aluminum—for use in virtually every U.S. Navy application that required sitting, the company was on... weiterlesen...
by Jaime GrossEarlier this week, I spent two days in Phoenix, reporting a story for Dwell's upcoming December/January issue. My second afternoon, local architects Cy Keener and Jay Atherton offered to take me on a whirlwind tour of what's cool in their city. As a disclaimer Cy explained, as we trundled along in his white pickup, that in Phoenix, "'walking distance' is actual... weiterlesen...
Palm Springs, California
Not surprisingly, hot places like Phoenix or Palm Springs have a lot of backyard pools. Warren wrote recently about their environmental cost in terms of energy and water, but a new life cycle analysis of all of the inputs and outputs, from electricity to water to pool chemicals, shows the true scale of the impact. And of course, the impact is worse in ... weiterlesen...