About a month ago I wrote about a motor-less water pump. Moving water from one location to another has always been important, even more so, uphill. Water is an element we have been trying to harness since we grew out of a single-cell organism. Water gives us life, helps us to cultivate life, and feed life. This is why I found this next video fascinating. What if we could convert, and even store, the energy of water for later use. We often covert the energy of water into...

Water is a weird substance. Think about it, unlike most other substances, it expands when it becomes a solid. This is the reason pipes can burst in the winter, and why placing a beer bottle in the freezer is a bad idea. To make things even weirder, it is slippery when it's a solid and not for the reason you'd think. This brings us to a motor-less pump called a hydraulic ram pump. This type of pump does not use a motor, and no, it does not "generate"...

We have all played with dirt and sand. Most of us can recall the first time we played with dirt and world of possibilities it opened. Suddenly we could "build" castles, highways, cities... But if you are like me, those possibilities quickly came to a halt when water evaporated and the soil or sand became dry and lost its shape. So you can image my thoughts when I saw a video claiming he'd "Engineered" dirt to support the weight of a car. Really? How can this be? What...