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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

Green Car Congress

Once further optimized and energy conversion elements, such as thermoelectric converters, are added, the cell could produce electricity. It looks like it will have to be a thermal conversion—that makes it not quite as easy as if I could get a direct conversion to electricity. —Prof. Tadahiko Mizuno, Ph.D.,

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Credit the EV’s advantage to its greater efficiency in the conversion of chemical energy to motion—77 percent, compared with 12 to 30 percent for a gasoline car—along with the potential to generate electricity using low-carbon sources. Between 2007 and 2011, the city of Seville built an.