Sorry guys, this week has been insanely busy in the personal life, so instead of a real post, I'm just going to leave this here. It's very much worth watching, and if you can kick in five dollars to their campaign, it's an easy way help make the world a better place for everyone. At bare minimum, I ask you to share either this blog post or this video with your friends.
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If you aren't keen on watching, the summary of their proposal is this: Raise money to start replacing parking lots, driveways, roads, and highways with durable, modular solar panels that react to changing environments. Presently, the heat and sunlight absorbed by our pavement isn't doing us any good, when we could be using it to provide plentiful, cheap energy with land that's already being used instead of marring whole tracts of landscape with acres of panels.
Their campaign can be found here https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways
Also worth your while: These guys want to build a modern operational version of Tesla's Wardenclyffe tower, designed for wireless transmission of electricity anywhere to anyone. Just think- never again having to suffer the frustration of downed power lines or aging electrical infrastructure!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/planetary-energy-transmitter
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Interested in contributing to science over the long term, but not interested in repeated investments? You can contribute to the sciences of meteorology, ecology, and climatology by contributing to the Stormtag project. Their goal is to use crowdsourced weather 'stations' to monitor atmospheric conditions. It's as simple as distributing these small devices, known as 'tags', that can even be used as a keychain! The devices monitor a number of weather variables, and report their readings back to a server, where the data is stored and processed. The best part about it is that you get your own personal weather station if you contribute $20 or more! Makes a good (though late) Father's day gift!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonatherton/stormtag-a-bluetooth-weather-station-on-your-keyri
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The scary part? If it weren't for people like you on the internet, some of these great ideas would never get off the ground. Be sure to contribute or share the ideas you believe in, and I encourage you to share this post with others. Feel free to leave any questions or comments on our facebook page or on the blog itself.
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