Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Dyson Has Scrapped Its Electric Car Project
October 10th, 2019Via: BBC: Dyson, the UK-based company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars. The firm, headed by inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a “fantastic electric car” but that it would not hit the roads because it was not “commercially viable”. In an email sent […]
Burisma Paid Joe Biden $900,000 for Lobbying – Ukrainian MP
October 9th, 2019Hmm… Via: Interfax Ukraine: Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials. Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.” at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine’s press center in Kyiv on […]
Thermoelectric Generator: Cold Side Radiates Heat Built Up from Day to Sky at Night
October 9th, 201925 mW/square meter is close to nothing, but it’s an interesting idea. Via: Joule: A large fraction of the world’s population still lacks access to electricity, particularly at night when photovoltaic systems no longer operate. The ability to generate electricity at night could be a fundamentally enabling capability for a wide range of applications, including […]
Millions Brace for Unprecedented Power Cuts in California
October 9th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: It was a once-unthinkable move: purposely shutting off power to millions of people and plunging a major metropolitan area into darkness. And yet, on Wednesday, utility PG&E Corp. began cutting electricity to almost 800,000 California homes and businesses — representing roughly 2.4 million people — to prevent wildfires as high winds are forecast […]
Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable Power
October 9th, 2019Via: Quanta Magazine: Three researchers were honored with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry this morning for their roles in the development of lithium-ion batteries, a technology that has made possible our mobile electronic civilization of cellular phones and electric cars. John Goodenough of University of Texas, Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University and Akira […]
World’s Largest Wind Turbines to be Built Off Yorkshire Coast
October 7th, 2019Via: Guardian: The largest offshore wind turbines ever built will begin powering millions of British homes using blades more than 100 metres long by the early 2020s. Each of the new mega-turbines planned for the world’s biggest offshore windfarm at Dogger Bank in the North Sea will reach 220 metres high and generate enough electricity […]
Tesla Acquires Canadian Battery Specialist, Hibar Systems, Possibly Setting Up Secret Battery Lab
October 5th, 2019Via: Electric Autonomy: Tesla Inc. is expanding into Canada with the purchase of a Richmond Hill, Ont., company specializing in battery manufacturing, Hibar Systems Ltd. The quiet purchase — not previously reported — happened between July and October of this year, public records show. The acquisition comes at a pivotal time for Tesla, as the […]
How the Taycan is Made
October 3rd, 2019Via: Porsche:
GE, NASA Partner to Advance the Future of Electric Flight
September 29th, 2019Via: ZDnet: Electric flight is becoming a tantalizingly close reality for shorter-range service. But increasing passenger carrying capacity and flight times to economically accommodate longer routes will require a major rethink of crucial components. One of these is the inverter, which changes the direct current of batteries into alternating current used by the airplane’s propulsion […]
McCharge: McDonalds is Now Charging EVs in Sweden and Netherlands
September 28th, 2019Via: The Next Avenue: Related: First Gas Station in America to Ditch Oil for 100% Electric Vehicle Charging Opens in Maryland
