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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

For every kJ of chemical energy in the fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, 73 % is sacrificed to chemical and thermal losses. Crane also mentioned that one-quarter to one-third of the cost of a battery system is the packaging, integration and electronics. Personal mobility redefined. Storage Temperature.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

The International Energy Agency (IEA) last week launched the 2011 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), the current edition of its annual flagship publication assessing the threats and opportunities facing the global energy system out to 2035. Click to enlarge. World PLDV oil demand in the New Policies Scenario. —WEO 2011.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

Cars That Think

In an online discussion about EOD support robots, one soldier wrote, “Those little bastards can develop a personality, and they save so many lives.” Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious. An infantryman responded by admitting, “We liked those EOD robots.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I liken electric grid and renewable to the economic and political and military fiasco of the Iraq war. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. I personally wouldn’t count on the “Big Three&# actually implementing any of these new technologies in the near future.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar. Pre-paid 600 kilometer cards are one approach that is suggested. 12:47 PM joe said. SZ (1) 6753.T

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