Amazon Web Services has announced it will be supporting the construction of a 150 MW wind farm in Benton County, Indiana, which will end up being known officially as the Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge). Amazon has signed a 13 year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the energy … [continued]
[Update: The AMA is over. You can read the highlights (according to me) here: Highlights From Elon Musk Reddit AMA] The introduction to Elon Musk in the video here does a good job of capturing just how influential this man is. He’s a living legend, and Edison of our time. I … [continued]
EV Obsession. Most of us are content to simply know that the Tesla Gigafactory is going to be big… huge, even. How huge? It hadn’t crossed my mind to even put it in perspective. No matter how big it is, the size is going to be fairly incomprehensible to me. However, … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Not that many people would assume it was, but just for clarity’s sake (or, more likely, a bit of fun), Tesla Motors took to the Twittersphere in order to officially state that the vehicle in the picture below (which apparently got hot on reddit) is … [continued]
Update: Interestingly, this article didn’t go big on reddit yet still somehow attracted a huge swarm of nuclear-obsessed commenters. How would that be possible if such people weren’t coordinating in order to swarm any major anti-nuclear posts? The amount of old, repeatedly debunked misinformation posted in the comments of this … [continued]
Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Emily Atkin. One of Reddit’s most popular sections is /r/science, a forum where even the most curious and uninformed nerd can bulk up on recent, peer-reviewed scientific research. This is possible on /r/science because of its community — more than 4 million people, scientists included, who … [continued]
Reddit’s hosting an “Ask Me Anything” with the pilots of Solar Impulse on Friday, May 31, at 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT / 19:00 CET André Borschberg, new absolute world distance record holder in solar aviation, and Bertrand Piccard, initiator and chairman of Solar Impulse, are both pilots of the well-traveled zero-fuel … [continued]
