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This is a blog about electric vehicles and energy. I mainly repost other stories that I find on other websites. I am a graduate student at WVU in the mechanical engineering program. my other blog is JustinRCole.net Check out Filmstowatch.tumblr.com, my gf Ash runs it. Posts: Cars Motorcycles Energy Give Back: Submit Story var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3722826-6"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/
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unknownskywalker:
How much energy? by GOOD
How much energy whether electric, coal, nuclear, or otherwise - is required for a 100 watt lightbulb to run for a year , 24 hours a day?
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05.02.2012 - 22:41:55
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/post/17115162954
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Stanford pioneering a wireless electric highway: infoneer-pulse:
Stanford researchers may have solved the problem of range anxiety by wireless charging technology that could one day create an electric highway.
Wireless recharging already is used by some electric vehicle charging stations to fill up batteries without cords or plugging into an outlet. MIT helped pioneer this technology and spun it off into a wireless charging startup, WiTricity. However, Stanford researchers improved on this concept and devised a way to transmit 10 kilowatts of electric power across a 6.5-foot distance with minimal energy loss. By overcoming transmitting electricity across a significant distance, researchers will make it possible to pave a highway with wireless conduits that can provide addition power to EVs and let them operate indefinitely.
» via CNET
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03.02.2012 - 22:41:26
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/post/16991557301
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drweidinger:
Fake Leaf is Twice as Efficient as the Real Thing
http://www.nextnature.net/2012/01/fake-leaf-is-twice-as-efficient-as-the-real-thing/
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03.02.2012 - 19:20:05
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/post/16982444114
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trendd:
Magnetic fields in roads could also power hover boards. (I wish)
“While we used AC and wires to build a massive electrical grid in the 20th century, wireless energy could be a game changer in the years to come. Researchers at Stanford just announced that they have developed a way to charge moving electric vehicles using a series of coils embedded in freeways. The system would power cars while they drive at full speed, effectively untethering the electric car from the plug and providing unlimited range at high efficiency.”
(via Stanford Develops Wireless Electric Car Charging System For Highways | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World)
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02.02.2012 - 22:08:42
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/post/16934871204
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smarterplanet:
BOXX electric bike: two wheels, four corners, all-electric transport for one — Engadget
Has bicycle design reached its pinnacle? Or are electric bike manufacturers just not trying hard enough? The YikeBike begs to differ, and here joining it is BOXX Corporation’s diminutive BOXX. Coming in at just under a meter (or 36-inch inches) long, the 120 pound aluminum “bike” has a top speed of 35 miles per hour and can even haul up to 300 pounds of heft. Yet, despite that compact footprint, the company hasn’t skimped on tech, as it boasts traction control, anti-lock brakes and yes, even LED lights. Available in one of ten colors, $3,995 nets you a base 40-mile range model, which can optionally be doubled to 80 by ticking the $599 CORE 2 box.
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31.01.2012 - 19:20:05
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/post/16826142587
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Solar power cheaper than fossil fuels for 1.3 billion people
Here in the U.S., we’re used to thinking about solar power as one of those happy eco-friendly things that we’d all totally be using except for the fact that it’s so much more expensive than fossil fuels. In the developing world, though, it’s exactly the opposite: solar power is gaining ground with 1.3 billion people simply because it’s the cheapest way to go.
Let’s just forget about the fact that fossil fuels are all extracted from the Earth by evil corporations controlled by evil states and that they do evil things to our atmosphere. Thereal problem with fossil fuels is that unless you have a ton of infrastructure already in place, getting, refining, distributing and using liquid fuel is stupidly inefficient and expensive. And we’re not even talking about cars: millions of households in Africa rely on kerosene lamps to provide light at night, which is important because (among other reasons) it extends the amount of time with which people are able to work or study.
Kerosene, like any fossil fuel, is expensive. In fact, it costs twice as much to use a kerosene lamp as it does to use a small solar panel, battery and LED lights, and it’s cleaner and safer at the same time. Plus, with a solar panel, you can charge your cellphone too, which otherwise might cost you more money since (in Africa) you might have to rent a charger.
There’s a whole new industry springing up to meet this demand with cheap and efficient microsolar systems. For about $10, you can buy a solar lighting system that includes a 2.5 watt solar panel, two LED overhead lights and a battery pack. Every week, you pay a small fee (about $1) to use the power the solar panel provides (offsetting the subsidized up-front cost). After about 18 months, the system has been completely paid off, and you can upgrade it to a larger solar panel with more lights and battery capacity. Eventually, it’s even possible to work your way up to a system than can run a sewing machine or a refrigerator.
All this time, you’d be helping to both save the environment and fund a green tech industry, but again, that’s really not the point. The point is that sometimes solar power really does make the most sense, both socially and financially, and if companies can leverage this developing world market to help make solar power more attractive and affordable to those of us who are stuck living in the first world, everybody (in every world) might just come out a winner.
Eight19, via MIT
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28.01.2012 - 19:15:18
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/post/16644769621
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discoverynews:
Fold-Up Car of the Future
A tiny revolutionary fold-up car designed in Spain’s Basque country as the answer to urban stress and pollution was unveiled Tuesday before hitting European cities in 2013.
The “Hiriko,” the Basque word for “urban,” is an electric two-seater with no doors whose motor is located in the wheels and which folds up like a child’s collapsible buggy, or stroller, for easy parking.
The car was dreamed up by Boston’s MIT-Media lab.
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25.01.2012 - 18:00:14
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/post/16469100914
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jstn:
My dream car for 2012: Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell
An all-electric version of the SLS, each wheel with its own motor (!) totaling 525 horsepower. Zero to sixty in four seconds. Starts production this fall. Not sure I would go with that color.
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21.01.2012 - 03:47:18
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http://electricpower.tumblr.com/post/16204424676
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