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Bob Lutz Drives the Volt, Calls It 'Electrifying' | Autopia from Wired.com - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 09 Jun 08 - Cached
  • GM's engineers have been flogging the mules -- known formally as "engineering development vehicles" -- pretty hard for a couple of months now and they've got the lithium-ion batteries and electric drivetrain pretty much sorted. Lutz finally got a chance to take one of the range-extended electric vehicles for a spin and notes on his blog, "While the car is still most definitely a work in progress, the thrill of driving electrically -- that instant, silent torque -- is certainly present and accounted for."
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Technology Review: Novel Batteries Get a Boost - 0 views

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  • davidchapman on 14 Aug 07
     
    General Motors has announced it will work directly with A123 Systems, a start-up based in Watertown, MA, to develop batteries that are fine-tuned for the Chevrolet Volt, an electric vehicle scheduled for production in 2010 or 2011. The new agreement between the companies is designed to speed the vehicle to market.
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YouTube - The Air Car - 0 views

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  • Peter Fleming on 19 Aug 08
     
    Nice idea, but has it got performance potential? Rotary engine impressively compact and friction free. How much emission is generated by the compression of the air? Is it just passing the emissions on to a power station?
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Greentech Media: Cleantech Investing » Blog Archive » The auto industry needs... - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 20 Jun 08
     
    It seems to me that the auto industry has a very intriguing opportunity right now to use all of the recent entrepreneurial and investment activity in clean transportation tech to their benefit. This opportunity could help them address the evident "gap" between highly innovative demonstration vehicle programs, and the historically slow pace of adoption of core innovations into mass-production models.
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Solar Planes, Trains and Automobiles | celsias° - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 27 Aug 08 - Cached
  • And that's not all. We reported recently on this site on the solar powered car making its way around the world. We also covered the concept of solar roads to capture usable energy. We even reported on a sail boat powered with a solar sail. Now the BBC reports   that the U.S. military has held a test run in Arizona of a UK-made solar plane, the Zephyr-6. The plane flew for more than three days, running at night on solar charged batteries. The more than 83 hour non-stop flight was the longest of any unmanned aircraft.
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 27 Aug 08
     
    Does it make sense to solar power everything? It leads to many small, and relatively expensive installations. Wouldn't it be more effective to go for a battery & plug-in concept where possible. One would loose the inflight recharging of the solar airplane, but for everything else, the plug-in concept probably provides benefits.
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 27 Aug 08
     
    In addition, the lifetime of cars, for example, is much lower than the one for solar panels. Why integrate both?
  • Peter Fleming on 28 Aug 08
     
    Yes, I agree that there is too much emphasis on the novel in attempt to solve climate change. Creating technology for the designer label market to sell goods to the rich who want to tell their friends they are green. The same investment in a solid developed renewable method could yield a hundred times the reduction of carbon or more...
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EU states handed ambitious renewable energy targets | EU - European Information on Energy - 0 views

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  • To achieve these objectives, every nation in the 27-member bloc is required to increase its share of renewables by 5.5% from 2005 levels, with the remaining increase calculated on the basis of per capita gross domestic product (GDP). EU countries are free to decide their preferred 'mix' of renewables in order to take account of their different potentials, but must present national action plans (NAPs) outlining their strategies to the Commission by 31 March 2010. The plans will need to be defined along three sectors: electricity, heating and cooling and transport.
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Grand Challenges for Engineering - 0 views

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  • With input from people around the world -- much of it on this website -- an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century.  Now their conclusions are revealed on this website.
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FactCheck.org: Can a freight train really move a ton of freight 436 miles on a gallon o... - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 08 Jul 08 - Cached
  • This question is generated by an advertising campaign by the railroad industry, which is arguing that a good way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to move more freight by rail rather than by truck. An example of the industry's ads can be seen on the Web site www.freightrailworks.org.
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New Technology Can Turn Heat Waste Into Electricity : CleanTechnica - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 25 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Most importantly, the material is most effective between 450 and 950° Fahrenheit. This is a typical temperature range for many power systems, including car engines. Many experts argue that up to 60 percent of a gasoline engine’s energy is lost through waste heat, so a thermoelectric device using lead telluride would be a welcome addition to any car. Such devices have no moving parts; this means that wear and tear is virtually non-existent.
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TED | Talks | Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame (video) - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 24 Dec 07 - Cached
  • Energy guru Amory Lovins lays out his plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy in the process. It's the subject of his book Winning the Oil Endgame, and he makes it sound fairly simple: On one hand, the deadly risks of continued dependency, and on the other, some win-win solutions.
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The transition to a Zero Emission Vehicles fleet for cars in the EU by 2050 - 2 views

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  • The transport sector is expected to deliver a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU by 2050. Achieving these commitments is expected to require a complete decarbonisation of the passenger car fleet.
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Honda to build electric motorcycle - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News - 0 views

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  • Details of the plans have not been revealed yet, but the motorcycle is expected to go on sale in 2010. Vectrix Corp, based in the United States, claims to be the world leader in zero emission electric scooters and high-performance bikes, building its Electric Vx1 and Vx1e scooters in Poland.
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Energy Systems for Sustainable Prosperity | SpringerLink - 1 views

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  • Ecologically sustainable energy technologies comprise renewable energy supply together with improved efficiency of energy conversion and use. Together they can mitigate the climate crisis, greatly reduce pollution of air, water and land, create more jobs than are lost in the fossil fuel industries they replace, and contribute to energy independence and social equity. The best technical energy supply strategy is transitioning fossil fuelled electricity to renewables, electrifying most heating and transportation, and producing fuels by using renewable electricity to make hydrogen and ammonia. This technological transition is necessary and urgent, but unlikely to be sufficiently rapid to avoid irreversible climate change. Substantial demand reductions are needed by rich countries, beyond the technological measures of energy efficiency. This would entail an end to growth in energy production, materials extraction, land clearing and population, that is, the creation of a steady-state economy within Earth’s biocapacity.
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