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The Nissan Re-Leaf concept shows how a family EV could power disaster-relief operations
1 Mar 2021
It may sound strange, but the idea for the Nissan Re-Leaf was actually conceived almost ten years ago when, on 11 March 2011, Japan endured one of the worst disasters in its history. Earthquakes are common in the region, but the tremor in 2011, 43 miles off the North East Coast of Honshu island, was the largest the country had experienced since records began.
The earthquake measured nine on the Richter Scale and immediately caused damage to properties in the region, but the worst was yet to come. The violent shift in the ocean floor at the quake’s epicentre triggered a tsunami which, upon striking the coastline, caused unimaginable destruction.
THE NEXT GENERATION. James Davis Nicoll’s
Young People Read Old SFF panel took a look at “’No Trading Voyage’ by Doris Pitkin Buck”. What did they think of this 1963 poem?
This month’s entry is from Doris Pitkin Buck, a Science Fiction Writers of America founder. Buck was mainly associated with
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which for various stupid reason was not a magazine I followed closely back in the day. Accordingly, I was not familiar with her work when I encountered this example of it way, way back in 2019. I see I carefully side-stepped my issues with poetry in my review. Let’s see what my Young People made of her poem.