You can't generate millions of watts of electricity would creating some problems - nothing's perfect. Solar panels' most obvious problem is area - they have to spread out to absorb enough photons. It's easiest and cheapest to do this spreading out on flat, dry parcels...

Back when I was in middle school a lot of people were talking about a disastrous infection that had come out of an exotic place and was threatening millions of people, just like COVID-19. It had a much better name, however – The Andromeda Strain – and it was much...

The power-to-weight ratio of batteries and electric motors doesn't seem like they'd work for aviation, but who knows: An Israeli company called Eviation says that by 2022 it will deliver a 9-passenger electric airplane to Cape Air, a small airline that connects Cape...

By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Nov. 1 to Nov. 6 *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Cooling Plasma Cutting System Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,827,600, initially filed April...

Massachusetts has the country's best right-to-repair law, although it only cover certain aspects of automotive repair information. On Tuesday it got better: Voters overwhelmingly enlarged it by a 75% to 25% margin, which is getting close to North Korea levels of...

Offshore wind farms - even dinky ones, like Block Island off Rhode Island - are very big engineering projects. And with very big engineering projects, you can get very big expensive mistakes. They've got one at Block Island, reports E&E News: The rocky saeabed...