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Watch this Reuters video showing how solar balloons could solve power needs for remote areas. Designed by the Technion Institute of Technology, solar balloons could provide power without taking up valuable farmland or living space.

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Watch this Reuters video to see a new invention called the eRocket. It's part motorcycle, part bicycle and all innovation. You have to peddle this hybrid for the engine to go, but the bike goes 50mph.

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