life in the uncanny deep




le mars


how mars was visited by NASA's Phoenix mission in 2008. this gave us some amazing pictures.



two pictures from the phoenix-mission homepage at university of arizona:

frozen in the morning

hi-res martian landscape



Electric Mobility in Austria

The Tesla Roadster is the sexy icon of electric mobility.

What is going on in terms of electric mobility in Austria and the CENTROPE region? Several aspects are of interest: initiatives for social integration of e-mobility, technological as well as scientific advances regarding e-mobility, and, policy as well as economic concepts for the advancement and integration of e-mobility .

'Regarding e-mobility, The Mobility House considers first and foremost a modification of human mobility patterns in urban agglomerations as indispensable. The majority of the driven distances are short and can even at this point in time, be easily covered with e-vehicles. As a consecutive step The Mobility House envisions the merging of urban agglomerations and regions as a chance of applying e-mobility supra-regionally.'
from: http://www.mobilityhouse.at/en/electric-mobility/vision.html

'The future belongs to mobility with electric vehicles.' Walther-werke offer a complete kit for charging car and smart grid.

See a video about the future of energy supply in smart grids on the Siemens homepage. A smart grid will be able to balance temporary fluctiations in the availability of renewable energy supply. Smart grids will be an important future infrastructure to allow a diverse and renewable energy generation to power our society in a clean way.

Mobility is more if you are moving with less, like a scooter or a bike, due to lower entropy factors. e-scooters or e-bikes for long distances or rainy and lazy days.

Yet, I still don't see so many e-scooters on the street in vienna.
So get your supplies for example at: scooterman.at webshop

btw., in china e-scooters sales are soaring.



And e-bikes in Vienna:
As resident of vienna you can get 30% (max of 300€) back from the cities subsidy. 'Antragsformular für mein Elektrofahrrad'


Image showing Viennas city counselor Ulli Sima on a tesla-like electric bike. :)


E-mobility in Graz: The Magna 'BionX' is frequently represented in Austria. Magnas BionX motor is a future bestseller of this company.
photo: Stadt Graz / Foto Fischer

Nonwithstanding, walking and biking - mechanical forms of mobility (m-mobility) - are still the most efficient in keeping our environments alive.

LiJiang, Yunnan, China

Bicycle Murals

We need more bicycle and cycling related murals in cities for promotion of cycling among citizens.
New York, 8th avenue. Commercial for bike store beneath.

TianJin

travelling from BeiJing to TianJin with 315km/h takes you about 45 minutes. there i was wondering around one day to distinguish between old-new, new-old, new-new or old-old building structure.
click panoramas to enlarge.

thank you again tao&felix for this great (although colder than cold) day in TianJin. !!! cheers

aiota arkkitehtuuria

found 'aiota arkkitehtuuria' toady.

aiota arkkitehtuuria 'concentrates on urban planning, architecture and society in Helsinki, and also on phenomena in the Nordic countries, Europe and the world that have an impact on our daily lives.'
and aiota present the 'Gadgets of the moment':
biodegradable cellular phone

and folding bike


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aitoa arkkitehtuuria