In the dead of winter, a place like Stowe, Vt., is traditionally hell for electric vehicles. Frigid temperatures dramatically slow down a battery’s internal chemical reaction necessary for performance, and, as a result, both power and range take a beating. Yet here I am, blasting down a Green Mountain State trail in February, full send, on a Taiga—the world’s first all-electric production snowmobile. Named after the moniker for subarctic conifer forests, the Taiga offers plenty of output and little range anxiety. Has Taiga made some breakthrough in battery technology to make this possible? Is it cold fusion? Black magic? Nope. It’s all just owed to a few sled-enthusiasts with a novel engineering solution. More from Robb Report The all-electric Taiga Nomad snowmobile. – Credit:… Source link

Because of a casting report, the Arrowverse may have already spoiled a big twist with The Flash season 8’s new metahuman serial killer mystery. Warning: Spoilers for The Flash season 8, episode 8 The Arrowverse may have spoiled the identity of The Flash’s mysterious serial killer. The Flash season 8, episode 8, titled “The Fire Next Time” kicked off a new arc that appears to be focused on a new metahuman threat that’s emerged in Central City. Right now, Team Flash has no idea who they’re up against or what they want. For most of the episode, Team Flash and the police acted under the false assumption that the Hotness, a one-time villain from The Flash season 4, was the killer they were looking for. He had a motive for both… Source link

Last week on The Flash, Barry revealed his identity as The Flash to Central City Police Captain Kramer, forging a partnership between the speedster and law enforcement as well as gave her a way to contact him so that they could better help people. This week, with Goldface back in custody things are back to normal in Central City, but a new crime and subsequent investigation will lead to those closest to Barry to question his objectivity about a murder suspect while, at the Citizen Media, Allegra is given a professional opportunity that presents her with her own challenges. With The Flash recently renewed for Season 9, Season 8 of the long running The CW series is in full swing this week, but if you missed out on tonight’s episode, “The Fire Next Time”, don’t worry…. Source link

GARY HANINGTON Back in 2009 I started an article on the Polywater fiasco but never really got around to finishing it. Now that Russia is in the news these days, I pulled up the old file and thought maybe it’s time to detail the story of bad science running amok. Consider it, if you will, along with the likes of the Cardiff Giant, N-Rays, and powering our homes with cold fusion; the entire episode can be condensed to a great example of “the science of things that ain’t so” and it goes something like this: In 1961, the Soviet physicist Nikolai Fedyakin was employed at the Technological Institute of Kostroma, Russia, an old city on the Volga River 200 miles northeast of Moscow. While thousands of Soviet scientists were busy working on the… Source link

After three decades in Tribune management, I have a hot story to follow … literally. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tim Fitzpatrick.   | March 21, 2022, 3:31 p.m. This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab. [Subscribe to our newsletter here] It’s not too late. That’s the hope. It’s actually two hopes. The first hope is that it’s not too late for an old Tribune hand like me to go back to reporting and writing the news. The second is that there is still time to keep the planet from overheating. After 31 years as one of the big cheeses in The Tribune newsroom, I have left management to return to a reporting gig. I am going to cover renewable energy and… Source link

All in all, Utopian societies wouldn’t make for compelling comics and would effectively end the genre. WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Iron Man # 16 and Iron Man # 17, now on sale from Marvel Comics Power is fun. Too much power, though? That gets boring. Such is the situation facing Iron Man these days in the pages of his own title. To defeat Korvac in Iron Man # 16 by Christopher Cantwell and Julius Ohta, Tony took on the Power Cosmic. It worked out, and the hero ascended to a higher plane, ditching his older moniker for “Iron God.” But now what? RELATED: Marvel Confirmed Iron Man’s Most Dangerous Superpower Isn’t Tony Stark’s Suit While becoming so powerful as to resemble a deity… Source link

Three decades ago, in my 20s, I was a ski rep shepherding school children on trips in the French Alps. Fast-forward 30 years and I was doing an action replay in my 50s. This time it was as a tour leader for adults in Mayrhofen, with British operator Solos Holidays, in the Tyrolean Alps. As travel restrictions began to ease this season, the company found their Austrian trip fully booked at the last minute and were in need of an experienced rep to look after a group in the resort – responsible for making sure the trip ran smoothly from airport transfers to hotel rooms, ski hire, lift passes and, if needed, emergency doctors. Without hesitation, with memories of my youth flooding back, I jumped at the chance – working in the mountains was the best thing I ever did, and for many… Source link

However, Raskin is wrong about another big thing: her oft-stated belief that economic regulators should play a bigger role in that fight. Raskin withdrew her name from consideration to be the Fed’s top bank regulator on Tuesday, which freed the Biden administration to do what it should have done in the first place: nominate someone who will keep their focus on stabilizing banks. To give Raskin and similar advocates their due, they argue that stabilizing the banks requires stabilizing the climate. And of course regulators should make sure that climate change doesn’t trigger a systemic banking crisis — just as they should make sure that the banking system is reasonably capable of surviving unexpected wars in Ukraine, or asteroid strikes. Story continues below advertisement Yet it’s… Source link

Physicist James Mitrani of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory installs scintillator detectors on Zap Energy’s fusion Z-pinch experiment. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Fusion companies are famous for making big claims about the viability and timeline for their technology, and Zap Energy is no exception. “Fusion energy is our inevitable future,” claims the company’s website. “Zap Energy is building it.” Founded in 2017 after years of academic incubation at the University of Washington, Zap is targeting 2023 for demonstrating with a deuterium-only plasma that it could achieve scientific breakeven—when the energy that’s put into its device equals the energy that comes out—with a plasma fueled by both deuterium and… Source link

“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.”  This is what Homer Simpson murmured to himself during a Tupperware party thrown by his loathsome sisters-in-law, Patty and Selma. Normally, Homer would have made it through such an occasion by drowning himself in some Duff, but this particular party took place just after he failed a breathalyzer test and vowed to Marge he wouldn’t drink for a month. And so, he was forced to sit through the party entirely sober, which nearly pushed him over the edge. But what, exactly, was Homer depriving himself of?  Being just The Simpsons version of Budweiser, I’ve always had the impression that Duff was kind of a crappy, low-alcohol, beer — hardly… Source link