Commercial Grid IDEA Mercury 
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. One HTS induction heater now moving to commercialization rotates a metal ingot within a magnetic field to generate eddy currents within the metal. The wire had become a “superconductor.”
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 25, 2023
Thermodynamics on Earth and in space Before we tell you about those ideas and prototypes, you need to understand the role radiation plays in maintaining Earth’s energy balance. The idea of using such a wavelength-selective emitter for radiative cooling dates back to the pioneering work of Claes-Göran Granqvist and collaborators in the 1980s.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
The solar market, for example, has been around for some time, but it has been a fringe technology in commercial terms. The idea is to electric vehicles more competitive with conventional, gas-powered vehicles, so that a purchaser can consider paying roughly the same amount for either. • Cartoon: Recovery is Just Around the Corner!
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