Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2021
Recycled tire waste is already used as a component of Portland cement, but graphene has been proven to strengthen cementitious materials, concrete among them, at the molecular level. The lab calculated electricity used in the conversion process would cost about $100 per ton of starting carbon. —James Tour.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JULY 9, 2012
As Portland, OR gears up for yet another screening of Revenge, local EV'er and filmmaker J Bills recounts the scene at the Portland premiere back in November: Here in Portland, we still talk about the last time Chris Paine rolled through town with a movie; an early screening of 2006’s seminal “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 27, 2010
ReVolt Technology, LLC, a company that is developing rechargeable zinc-air batteries ( earlier post ), has been approved to receive a package of loans and tax credits from Oregon and Portland authorities totaling approximately $6.8 An alkaline electrolyte maintains high ionic conductivity between the two electrodes.
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2010
This integrated capture and conversion process will be used to produce a number of different chemicals that could replace petroleum-derived products. Investigators will attempt to create an energy efficient, CO 2 -consuming inorganic binding phase to serve as a high-performing substitute for Portland cement (PC) in concrete.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
MARCH 29, 2008
I spent over seven hours on my feet at the Portland Better Living Show displaying the 914. This is one of the prime candidates for the open-source vehicle conversion kit I'd like to work on, so there's lots of information to leverage. Yesterday was a long day.
Electric Cars are for Girls
MARCH 17, 2011
Well, "Plasma Boy" John Wayland is working on just that, an all-electric Honda Insight conversion, 'cause he's gotta be different, and the Prius has been done, and done, and done.and so when it's finished, he's planning a freeway trip-slash-parade from Portland to Seattle and back in his Insight conversion, called the Silver Streak, flanked by a squadron (..)
Green Car Congress
JULY 13, 2019
Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University.
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