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Electric Storage

May 06 2013 11:15 PM | eds in Electric

Nano-engineer Professor Zaiping Guo, at the . . . Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM) . . . made a breakthrough with a new Germanium-based material. It charges in about . . . 2 minutes and has . . . 5 times more energy sto...

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Next Big Thing In Energy Storage

May 04 2013 05:35 PM | eds in Electric

Eos Energy Storage this week launched its first pilot project with Con Edison. . . . The pilot project will see . . . . . . Eos’s potentially disruptive energy storage technology . . . . . . used at Con Edison’s New York City facilities. Source: ener...

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Does The Sun Really Shine On Texas?

May 01 2013 10:00 PM | eds in Electric

In 2012, $75 million bought, . . . 64 MW of solar in Texas homes and businesses. Source: Sun cleantechnica

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Can An Electric Vehicle Save Me Money?

Apr 29 2013 08:20 PM | eds in Electric

The typical driver puts about . . . 15,000 miles per year on his car. Or about . . . . 1,250 miles per month. At about . . . 25 miles per gallon, . . . 50 gallons of gasoline, . . . $4.00/gallon, our typical driver spends about . . . $200...

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The Future Of The Electric Motor

Mar 16 2013 01:05 AM | eds in Electric

Axiflux® is the creator of the Adaptive Magnetic Flux Array™ (AMFA) . . . the world’s first: . . . . . . modular, . . . . . . real-time, . . . . . . software-reconfigurable . . . electric motor and generator, yields significant: . . . . . . size, . . ....

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2011 Electricity Analysis By Opower

Mar 08 2013 03:00 PM | eds in Electric

Analyzing the energy use of more than 8 million homes in 2011, . . . Opower’s study incuded the following findings: The top 1% of electricity-using households spend about . . . $4,000 electricity annually, compared to the . . . $1,000 the...

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Toyota I-Road, It's Electric!

Mar 05 2013 07:00 PM | eds in Electric

No word, yet, on any plans for the i-Road . . . to see production and US sales. Source: I-Road

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1939 Electric Delivery Truck

Jan 27 2013 01:00 AM | eds in Electric

Way back in 1939, Harrods Prestiges Department store of london, . . . had a fleet of electric delivery vans. Source: Electric-Harrods-Truck Fleet

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Electric Snow-Blower Golf Cart

Jan 24 2013 05:35 PM | eds in Electric

Baker says one of the biggest hurdles in building the Snowpig . . . was keeping the costs down. Being unsure if the project would even work, . . . he didn't want to spend a lot of money . . . on something that might not be feasible. The end result...

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Gravity Powered Led

Dec 11 2012 05:30 PM | eds in Electric

1.5 billion people in the developing world still rely for lighting, . . . on kerosene wick lamps, . . . hazardous to the environment and . . . human health. A realistic alternative to Kerosene lamps . . . by harnessing the power of gravity. One lift o...

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