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Submission + - Austria Converts Phone Booths to EV Chargers (inhabitat.com)
separsons writes: Telekom Austria, a telecommunications company, aims to convert obsolete public phone booths into electric vehicle recharging stations. The company unveiled its first station yesterday in Vienna and hopes to create 29 more stations by the end of the year. The stations may not be super popular now, but they should be soon: Austria's motor vehicle association says the country will likely have 405,000 electric vehicles on the road by the year 2020.
Submission + - Beavers surpass Hoover Dam (foxnews.com)
ygslash writes: The
Hoover Dam
no longer holds the title of the world's widest dam.
Satellite photos of northern Alberta, Canada show that several families
of beavers have apparently
joined forces
to build a dam 850 meters
wide, more than twice as wide as the Hoover Dam.
Submission + - Crowdsourcing HIV research
biolgeek writes: In recent years, HIV has been managed with a collection of therapies. However, the virus will likely evolve around these drugs, making it crucially important to get a better understanding of the virus itself. An important step in understanding the virus is to get a handle on its genetic blueprint. William Dampier of Drexler University is taking a novel approach to this research by crowdsourcing his problem. He is hosting a bioinformatics competition, which requires contestants to find markers in the HIV sequence that predict a change in the severity of the infection (as measured by viral load). So far the best entry comes from Fontanelles, an HIV research group, who has been able to predict a change in viral load with 66 per cent accuracy.
Submission + - Japanese Company Turns Diapers into Energy Source (inhabitat.com)
greenrainbow writes: A Japanese company called Super Faith has developed a new machine that turns used adult diapers into a clean fuel source in about 24 hours. You simply place the bag of dirty diapers in the machine, and once set it motion it pulverizes, sanitizes and dries the material in the diapers and then forms it into small pellets that contain 5000 kcal of heat per kilogram and are meant to be used in biomass heating and electricity systems. Super Faith has reportedly installed two SFD systems at a hospital in Tokyo’s Machida area. Each is capable of turning 700 pounds of used diapers — and everything they hold — into fuel every day.
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