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He Had $11,000 and Zero Construction Experience, So He Built a House and Escaped Rent
Paying rent can feel like a treadmill with no off switch. For Ivan Gradoboev, that feeling became impossible to ignore while he was living in a rented apartment in Sofia, Bulgaria. At the time, he had no construction experience, no house, and around $11,000 in savings. Buying even a small apartment seemed far beyond his…
Finnish Man Builds Solar Yacht That Travels Thousands Of Miles Without Fuel
A homemade yacht built in a Finnish forest has now travelled more than 3,000 nautical miles without buying a single litre of fuel. Lukas Sjoman spent around $20,000 building the 11-meter Helios 11, using marine plywood, glass fibre and ordinary residential solar panels. Then he pointed the boat south and put the idea to a…
This Startup Wants to Launch Mirrors Into Space to Sell Sunlight After Dark
Solar panels are fantastic tools for generating clean electricity, but they share one undeniable flaw. When the sun goes down, the power stops flowing. For decades, the energy industry has simply accepted the arrival of night as a natural pause button. Now, a team of aerospace engineers is challenging that assumption with a very different…