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April 8, 2016 0

Electric on the water

By News Desk

Tweet Kind of along the lines of Eli’s Lighter-Than-Air musings , I wondered the other day about why tugboats couldn’t be electric. It’s not as if they need to go hundreds of miles. And it turns out the very initial steps are being taken on that, with prototype tugboat hybrids and an electric boat on the Erie Canal

March 28, 2016 0

California water dreaming

By News Desk

— Peter Gleick (@PeterGleick) March 17, 2016 So in my comments I mentioned three technologies that could help water supply: low-tech, current tech, and future tech. The low-tech model being tested now is flooding farmland, even when plants don’t need it, to maximize percolation for groundwater storage.