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Piccard: With Breitling Orbiter, I flew nonstop around the world, but with carbon emissions. And you use the boil off, that means the little part of hydrogen that is evaporating, and put it through fuel cells that makes electricity for the electric motor. We put the carbonfiber and the epoxy in the molds and then we cure it.
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Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Motors for Electric Traction Drives. The additional content which includes the motor, inverter, converter, and on? CarbonFiber or Lightweight Materials. Most critical is the cost of the carbonfiber. The cost to manufacture the carbonfiber is high.
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The newly selected projects are in five areas: energy storage; power electronics and electric motors (PEEM); advanced combustion engines; materials technologies, and fuels and lubricant technologies. Power electronics and electric motors (Area of Interest 2). Batteries Engines Materials Motors Power Electronics' Earlier post.).
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