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Going to the Portland Better Living Show

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

I spent over seven hours on my feet at the Portland Better Living Show displaying the 914. He's documented much of the work needed to get a fifth generation ('92-'95) Civic converted to electric. Yesterday was a long day. My throat was hoarse at the end of the day from answering the same questions many times.

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US DOT and Solidia in CRADA on Solidia reduced CO2 Concrete and Cement for highway infrastructure

Green Car Congress

This last step is what happens when Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) reacts with water to bond together the sand and aggregate particles that constitute conventional concrete. will document the compressive strength, flexural strength, freeze-thaw durability, and other basic properties of Solidia Concrete. Source: Solidia.

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UC Riverside team developing nav system that uses signals of opportunity; support for autonomous vehicles

Green Car Congress

Led by Zak Kassas, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, the team presented its research at the 2016 Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite System Conference (ION GNSS+), in Portland, Ore., in September.

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Alaska Airlines 737 May Have Left Boeing Factory Missing Bolts, N.T.S.B. Says

Baua Electric

It also answers critical questions about why the door plug detached shortly after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 took off from Portland International Airport in Oregon. The safety board said its investigation would continue to look at what documents had been used “to authorize the opening and closing” of the door plug.

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Taking a Break

Open Source Civic EV Kit

In the process, I've found several folks in the Portland area who are willing to help out with a variety of skills and talents. getting a '92-'95 Civic and start hacking away to get the battery boxes and other components laid out starting on documentation for the conversion kit (tool list, parts list, etc.)

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RMI Launches Project Get Ready to Help Communities Prepare for Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

Community members in Portland, Oregon; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Raleigh, North Carolina soon expanding to the Triangle region have already agreed to work with RMI’s Project Get Ready. Plug-in vehicles are a revolution for the consumer and will transform the way we move from place to place, and the way we think about using energy.

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

Several years ago, with the dream of making a book, I set out to learn and document how people around the world make use of thermal waters. Greta Rybus is a photojournalist based near Portland, Maine. It can be milky and opaque, silty with sediment or as clear as a municipal pool. That’s part of the ritual, too.