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Germany: Fumble's Electric Car Challenge
May 13 2016 01:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Audi and BMW say, . . . first long-range battery electric vehicles still years away. 5-13-2016 Source: Germany: Fumble's Electric Car Challenge
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Charging Points Vs Gas Stations
May 09 2016 10:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The world’s 3rd-largest economy, Japan, . . . now boasts: . . . . . . 40,000 electric car charging points, than . . . . . . 34,000 gas stations, . . . according to Nissan. The U.S. has an estimated: . . . . . . 9,000 charging points and . . . . . . 11...
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Worst Drought In 900 Years
May 08 2016 11:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) . . . concludes that the current drought that began in 1998: . . . . . . Cyprus, . . . . . . Israel, . . . . . . Jordan, . . . . . . Lebanon, . . . . . . Palestine, . . . . . . Syria, and . . . . . ....
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Tiny Apartment
Apr 11 2016 03:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Hong Kong, "one of the most expensive places in the world to live." . . . So keen were one couple to live in the city's Central district, . . . though, they bought a 309-sq ft (29-sq m) apartment. 4-10-2016 Source: Tiny Apartment
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Spacex Successfully Lands On Barge
Apr 09 2016 11:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
SpaceX Successfully Lands On Barge in the Atlantic ocean.
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4Th Industrial Revolution
Apr 04 2016 01:45 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
4th Industrial Revolution
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Are Bike Lanes Too Expensive?
Mar 21 2016 03:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, . . . published a brief exploration of what it called the "myth" that, . . . "there's no way we can keep spending so much on bike lanes, . . . with so many other pressing needs in San Francisco." Th...
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Electric Vehicle: $14,500 - $18,500
Mar 14 2016 06:10 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Mahindra, Plans no-frills e20 electric car, For British Drivers. Small urban commuter cars are part of an enormous market worldwide. . . . They are much in demand in China, especially in rural areas, . . . where luxury motor cars are less important, ....
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Watch Arctic Ice Disappear In Seconds
Mar 13 2016 12:35 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Watch 26 Years of Arctic Ice Disappear in Seconds
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North Pole, 50 Degrees Above Normal
Mar 09 2016 08:30 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Temperature actually rose above freezing, . . . at the North Pole, . . . in Winter. The National Weather Service (NOAA), . . . one of the top 5 strongest storms on record in this region, . . . forced a huge wave of warm air north, . . . into the A...
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The Empathic Civilization
Mar 04 2016 01:45 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Jeremy Rifkin The Empathic Civilization
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Solar Energy Prospecting In Alaska
Feb 24 2016 06:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Alaska has more than 175 remote village populations, . . . that rely almost exclusively on diesel fuel for electricity generation, and . . . heating oil for heat. Electricity generated by diesel fuel in some rural Alaskan villages can cost . . ....
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David Vs Goliath
Feb 06 2016 08:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Storage VS Utility “No threat to a traditional utility business model, . . . would seem to be more clearly defined, than the prospect of a community, . . . installing a combination of solar panels, and storage, . . . in order to become independent fro...
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Climate Change 1990 - 2006
Feb 02 2016 07:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Earth is experiencing ecological change at a greater rate than ever seen before, . . . today’s rate of change is far quicker, . . . which is an alarming piece of information, . . . given that this event would result in, . . . our mass extinction on thi...
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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet
Jan 25 2016 03:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), . . . is a massive ocean current system that’s critical to the stability of our climate, . . . as it moves a significant amount of heat from the Southern Hemisphere, and . . . the tropics up toward th...
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Buv
Jan 15 2016 05:10 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
The Institute for Affordable Transportation (IAT), . . . is a not-for-profit public charity devoted to improving the lives of the world's poor . . . by providing simple, low-cost vehicles, . . . in order to facilitate community transformation.
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Basic Utility Vehicle (Buv)
Jan 15 2016 04:55 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Institute for Affordable Transportation Basic Utility Vehicle (BUV)
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2016 Energy
Jan 12 2016 12:10 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Why 2016 Could Be a Turning Point the Energy Revolution
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Mö: Solar Powered Car-Cycle
Dec 28 2015 08:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Mö’s embedded solar panels charge a removable ~700Wh+ (48V 15Ah) battery, . . . which powers a 1200/1500W direct drive motor. In addition to the solar panels, . . . the car-cycle has a wall charger; . . . able to recharge the battery to 90% in an hou...
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Falcon 9 First Stage Landing
Dec 22 2015 11:00 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
It was the first time an unmanned rocket returned, . . . to land vertically at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and . . . represented a tremendous success for SpaceX. The company led by billionaire Elon Musk is striving for reusability, . . . to drive laun...
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The Car-Free City
Dec 01 2015 12:45 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Oslo officials pledge to ban cars from the city's downtown area by 2019. Officials in Oslo have also promised to invest in public transportation, and . . . incentivize the purchase of electric bicycles, as the city phases out cars. The proposed b...
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Tesla May Build Millions Of Cars A Year
Nov 09 2015 04:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, told Richard Baron, . . . “We could conceivably go beyond 1/2 a million cars there. . . . Long-term, I think we want to try to do several million cars.” 11-9-2015 Source: Tesla May Build Millions Of Cars A Year
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Ev's Could Change Everything
Sep 26 2015 12:40 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Economy . . . Electric vehicles convert about 60% of energy to the wheels, . . . Gasoline vehicles convert about 20% of energy to the wheels. Simplicity . . . EV's could be designed to: . . . . . . occupy 1/4 of the space, . . . . . . be noiseless,...
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