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Build Your Next House Out Of Reclaimed, Boeing Factory Lumber
An old Boeing factory in Seattle is being cleared out to make room for a strip mall (or something to that effect, I’m sure). But what’s noteworthy is that the factory lumber is being salvaged to build homes with.
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These Tools Help Firefighters Start Fires
Firefighters have the coolest job. They get to play with fire each day and don’t get in any trouble for doing so. Of all the firefighting jobs out there, the position of burn boss is by far the best.
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80% Of Global Power Could Come From Renewable Sources By 2050
Mark it down in the diaries, folks… Provided the world doesn’t come to a cataclysmic end next year, the UN believes that humankind can get 80 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2050.
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Latest Energy Breakthrough Threatens Existence Of Solar Panels
Upending a theory of physics maintained for over a century, researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered that magnetic fields coming from light waves are 100 times stronger than previously believed, creating new possibilities for harvesting solar power.