SpaceX’s second Super Heavy booster might land in Mechazilla’s arms

CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX could attempt to catch a Super Heavy booster out of mid-air with a tower-sized ‘Mechazilla’ robot as early as Starship’s second orbital launch attempt. Speaking on Twitter just hours after SpaceX installed said Starship launch tower’s first arms, Musk has thankfully answered a question on the minds of many: […]

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All-electric Vauxhall Combo-e and Movano-e make global debut at the Commercial Vehicle Show

The latest additions to Vauxhall’s award-winning electric van range – the All-New Movano-e and Combo-e – made their global debuts today at The Commercial Vehicle Show – the UK’s largest road transport event. As the UK’s leading e-LCV manufacturer, V…

VW to drop manual gears in the shift to e-mobility

VW wants to offer only automatic transmissions in the future as part of the shift to electromobility, thus saving costs for the further development of traditional transmission technology. The first VW model completely without a clutch pedal will be the 3rd generation Tiguan from 2023. Considering that few electric vehicles have more than one gear […]

Jean Osanz – Piora

We came to this house in June 2017. It is located in Piora, near Casino. We spent the first two weeks shivering with two electric oil heaters running flat out since there was no heating and no insulation. The first job I did was to open up the roof space and lay rock wool all…

Annett Welss – Byron

For the last three years, we have been transforming our food and toilet waste into cooking gas and liquid fertiliser concentrate (see Living tiny and green) The whole setup is carbon-neutral because biomaterial which was created through photosynthesis pulls carbon out of the atmosphere, and once burned as energy will go back as CO2. The…

Chris Sanderson – Bangalow

Hi everyone, In order to minimise our greenhouse gas emissions, we have a 10kW above ground solar array and two LG 9kW batteries.  We use the power generated by the solar system to power the house, our home-based business (distributing vegetarian health foods) and our EV, and there’s leftover energy which we on-sell to Enova…

Tesla overtakes Volkwagen, Ford in Norway as Model Y dominates August EV sales

The Tesla Model Y has boosted Tesla’s presence and sales in Europe. Charts that track EV sales in Europe reveal that Tesla Model Y sales have already exceeded numbers from legacy automakers in Norway, including Volkswagen, Ford, and Audi. In terms of the full transition to electric vehicles, Norway might be considered the closest to […]

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Ness Stewart – Montecollum

During COVID lockdown in 2020 we lived in an offish-grid cabin, surrounded by excess eucalyptus wood that our landlady deemed a fire hazard. Our desire to be active managers of our woodlands inspired our cob-rocket-stove-thermosiphon-bathtub-water-heater design! Rainwater is collected in a barrel and plumbed into and heated around the cob stove. Through the law of…