We race Go-Karts to have extreme fun, but they are also extreme pollutants. With their inefficient two stroke engines, they spew as much pollution into the air as ten cars.

So how can you have your fun and stop the excess pollution? An electric go-kart would seem like a promising start, but could it win on the track?

Check the article for details and results.

Filed under: go-kart, green, and electric car

Pots and pans built the city, rugged cookware, and a foreground looking oddly like a real cooktop. I love how this artwork evokes the city of San Franscisco while at the same time being fresh, new and science fictiony.

Filed under: san franscisco, art, cookware, and sculpture

I normally try to post positive, uplifting stories on amazing.com, but this one's close to my heart.

Martin Eberhard, founder of Tesla Motors, is not being treated well. He was kicked out of the company by financier Elon Musk, despite having attracted numerous fans as the company's open and genial public face. Martin created the whole conception behind the company.

During the employment negotiations, he was promised Roadster #2. Even after his firing, he recommitted his order for Roadster #2 and was told it would ship as the second production prototype.

Tesla appears to have broken that promise by shipping serial number 3 to a happy new owner but #2 has yet to leave the Lotus factory on its leisurely way to the US.

The whole shameful story is at the link. Not so amazing, but an interesting clash of egos over what is still said to be a wonderful car, well worth your interest ...

if the company survives long enough to build it for you.

Filed under: Tesla, Tesla Roadster, and Martin Eberhard

Here are some beautiful pictures of the world of the tiny.

The headline might be spun to tell us something about modern art, but isn't this gold crystal gorgeous?

More at the link

Filed under: modern art, art, and nano photos

I thought this was an intriguing idea - the tent has the words of a poem stencilled into it on all angles, and as the sun reaches each angle the poem appears as a projected image on the ground.

Filed under: poetry and performance art

if you really hate our world of mass-processed foods, this might be of interest - an aquarium designed to be nearly self-sustaining. The waste products from the fish make the plants grow, and the plants remove the fish waste products so the aquarium remains healthy.

In reality this isn't much different from any aquarium, which relies on bacteria to dispose of the fish waste, but this is a particularly elegant and eye-catching idea. I think having a garden of edible food as a consequence of your fish tank is, well, a bit more amazing than bacteria.

The idea of eating the fish when they grow big enough to eat, though, seems a little hard. As others have said in the discussion, generally people don't eat their pets.

Still a cool idea and a very interesting piece of concept art

Filed under: concept art, fish, vegetables, and self-sustaining

Researchers were amazed to find two billion year old unaltered rocks on the ocean floor. The rocks' age was precisely confirmed due to presence of isotopes of osmium.

"I just about fell off my chair. We can't exaggerate how important these rocks are -- they're a window into that deep part of earth."

The picture is of a section of these rocks.

Filed under: earth, rocks, ancient, and two billion years