Science
From mathematics and AI to medicine and psychology, The Optimist Daily features the latest news on discoveries, technological advances, and breakthroughs in the world of science. Our Science section is here to engage and enlighten you.
Trump cannot halt the market forces driving the clean energy revolution
The fact that Donald Trump will soon take over as president of the U.S. doesn’t mean the country will start burning more coal. Yes, the new president has made promises to revive coal industry. However, ultimately market forces will drive to the cheapest energy sources. And as of now, solar and Read More...
Faraday Future just shared a glimpse of its first real electric car
Faraday Future released another video Wednesday of the electric car it will show at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The most recent video focuses on the car's wheels and includes a tagline that reads "who said don't reinvent the wheel?" Faraday Future released another video in late Read More...
Cloud-tracking cameras to tackle dips in solar power output
A new way to tackle the much-maligned unpredictability of solar energy is being deployed at a solar farm opening today in Western Australia – cloud-tracking cameras. The 1MW solar farm at Karratha airport, made possible by a $2.3m grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena), has Read More...
Trump's energy vision holds plenty of promise for renewables
More The election of Donald Trump as the 45th US president is not the news the global wind and solar sectors hoped to wake up to – but it’s also not cause for despair. If there’s one thing that’s long been clear when it comes to Trump and renewables, it’s that he Read More...
Wind energy could soon power most of the U.K
Fossil fuels consumption is tumbling faster than we may have expected. Just 44 years after Dong Energy was set up to exploit Denmark’s North Sea oilfields, the company has confirmed plans to sell its oil and gas division to become a “global leader in renewables”. The company is already the Read More...
Tesla enters EU and ramps up production with purchase of German Engineering company
Tesla has added another piece to the puzzle in its quest to bring electric cars to the whole world. The electric carmaker has agreed to buy German’s Grohmann Engineering group, which develops automated manufacturing systems for batteries and fuel cells. The acquisition will help Tesla expand its Read More...
Tesla likely to add solar power roofs to cars
In a Twitter exchange today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will likely add solar charging technology to the roofs of future all-electric cars. "We will probably offer that as an option," Musk wrote in the Twitter exchange with Tesla enthusiasts. In answer to one enthusiast who doubted the Read More...
Harvard scientists think they've pinpointed the physical source of consciousness
Harvard scientists think they've pinpointed the physical source of consciousness This is where awareness lives. Scientists have struggled for millennia to understand human consciousness - the awareness of one's existence. Despite advances in neuroscience, we still don't really know where it comes Read More...
Toyota, in about-face, may mass-produce long-range electric cars
Toyota looking at mass-producing long-range electric vehicles (EVs) that would hit the market around 2020, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday, in what would be a dramatic reversal in strategy for the world's top-selling automaker. Even as rivals such as Nissan Motor Co and Volkswagen AG have Read More...
US electric car sales up 26% through October
US electric car sales continue to trend up, even despite many buyers holding out for a coming Chevy Bolt or Tesla Model 3. Not much has changed at the top of the leaderboard, but note that I’ve updated historical Tesla sales to represent much-higher-than-anticipated US Model S sales. Based on Read More...