Forget about the hybrid auto — Shai Agassi says it’s electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.
Sustainable transportation. Global energy independence. Freedom from oil. Using technology available today, Better Place is building the electric car operator network that will accomplish these goals and more. One nation at a time.
Dear readers and visitors of the OliNo.org website, I would like to share a part of my experience as a Dutch visitor, when I was travelling in the warm and deep South of the USA during October until January of 2009. In December I spent some time in beautiful Sedona (Arizona) where I encountered a dome house in a rural area.
In this short article I explain a measurement on the power factor. Measured is a led tube light from LedLightEurope. This is a 1500 mm long tube equipped with 81 smd leds. The power supply that is delivered as a separate block, is not in the tube and could be put inside the tube holder or close to it.
In this short article I explain a measurement on the power factor. Measured is a led tube light from LedLightEurope. This is a 1200 mm long tube equipped with 60 smd leds. The power supply that is delivered as a separate block, is not in the tube and could be put inside the tube holder.
Trams all over the world could soon be operating without the eyesore of overhead cables according to Bombardier, the world’s leading supplier of trams. Primove, Bombardier’s new tram system, uses induction technology for the transfer of electric power. This contact-less technology is five to six percent more efficient than other technologies in current use, says Bombardier. Amsterdam council has already shown serious interest
‘The large-scale integration of wind energy in our electricity supply is technically very well feasible. The existing power system is able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power, as long as use is made of up-to-date wind forecasts. Furthermore, no facilities for energy storage need to be developed.’ These are the most important conclusions of my Ph.D. thesis, which I have successfully defended at Delft University of Technology. Below I will explain in ten minutes of reading time how I have arrived at these conclusions after four years of Ph.D. research.
At the end of November 2008, I placed a solar energy system on my house. The PV system (Photo Voltaic System) has a power rating of 3500 Watt peak. In the last 3 months it has already generated 382 kWh.
Electric cars are powered by electricity which is provided by the onboard battery. The electric car does not directly depend on fossil fuels because electricity can be generated by a variety of sources. With the current Dutch energy mix, electric cars emit already less CO2 compared to a combustion car.
On Friday, March 20, our Renewable Energy website OliNo was hit by the Slashdot effect. The cause was the story Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage posted on Slashdot, linking back to this OliNo site. The impact was huge. During the Slashdot effect, we received more than 27,000 visitors in a single day. This is a detailed analysis of the Slashdot effect and actions we can take to survive the next hit.
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