It might look like a normal city bike but the Panasonic Vivi RX 10-S uses regenerative braking to charge its battery and give in automatic mode a range of 182km! This figure has to be proven in real use but it is a really great start for great way of harvesting energy that is practical [...]
These days it is impossible to walk into a shop and not find a large percentage of products manufactured -or at least assembled- in China. Chinese labour costs are so lucrative that factory capacity has been transferred with the same ease that service contracts were awarded to Indian companies.
The way things develop with rising oil [...]
The fact that large jumbo jets are almost exclusively designed and built by Airbus and Boeing is not a matter of simple chance. It’s a business that requires massive resources and experience. Not even Japan dares enter that arena -it prefers components or small aircraft. China however has now decided to enter the commercial jet business and to [...]
Cars increase, buildings saturate centers and some times city geography is a problem for the creation of efficient city transportation systems. What do you do? The city of Haifa in Israel is going ahead with a novel cable car system that is ideal to bypass hills and densely built areas. Finally, this skiing hobby is [...]
