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Millennials Like Carsharing but Eventually Need to Have their Own Cars

2014-07-28 21:09:07| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News

by Jon LeSage Millennials are putting off getting their drivers licenses and buying cars longer than previous generations, but what does the future look like? First-time buyers are tending to be around 25 years old, when that used to happen at 18-to-19. They do have a lot more college debt than in the past, and […] The Article Millennials Like Carsharing but Eventually Need to Have their Own Cars appeared first on Automotive Digest.

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UK supermarket will be the first to disconnect from the grid, use electricity generated entirely by its own rotten food

2014-07-22 19:51:11| Extremetech

A grocery store in the UK will become the world's first to be powered entirely by its own food waste. At the end of the day, any leftover food -- after the good stuff has been given to charity -- will be transported to a nearby anaerobic digester, where it will be turned into electricity and sent back to the store via a privately owned one-mile-long power line. When the anaerobic digester is turned on, the grocery store will sever all connections to the national power grid and rely purely on the electricity generated by bacteria feasting on rotten food. Cool.

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