Welcome to the Hippie Dabble Digest number 49! Just a reminder that the newsletter will have an updated look and feel in a few weeks and will start coming out on Mondays. If you are receiving the Substack version in your inbox, you will automatically be transferred over.
This week’s just for fun link goes well with the overall theme of our website. It’s called Napflix. It contains videos to help you sleep, but lots of them are very relaxing that you could use to decompress or as background noise. Take a look here: https://napflix.tv/.
Fall and Winter Cuttings: Cool Season Plant Propagation
If you’re interested in propagating your plants, here is a great video explaining how to do it with fall and winter cuttings.
An Electric Train-Plane That Will Be Able to Go 620 Miles Per Hour
A Canadian company is moving full speed into the future with their hybrid train-plane that would move faster than a plane and about three times the speed of most fast-moving trains with zero emissions. Take a look at this exciting project here: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/11/transpod-wants-to-build-fluxjet-train-plane-hybrid-that-goes-620-mph.html.
Floating Contra-Rotating Wind Turbines That Can Produce Double the Energy
A Norwegian company has designed a different kind of floating wind turbine that could double the output of traditional wind turbines at a lower cost. Read more about what they are working on here: https://mymodernmet.com/offshore-contra-rotating-wind-turbine/.
HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko
I’ve listened to the How I Built This podcast off and on for quite some time now. This podcast now has a special featured episode that tells the story of people in the lab designing earth-benefitting projects. This one is all about powering planes with hydrogen. Have a listen here: https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-hibt-lab-universal-hydrogen-paul-eremenko/.
On the Website
Slowly working away on it. I am up to 81 links in the Directory and 49 products in the Shop. This week’s discount code is HDD495D for $5 off any order.
Also, beginning on Thursday, I will start adding all of the old Hippie Dabble Digests to the website that are not already there starting with week 1.
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