Consumers and businesses are increasingly more concerned about global warming and climate change, and market demand for zero emission electric cars is developing rapidly. As a result, a whole new technology base needs to emerge quickly, to keep pace with social and legislative change. Liberty Electric Cars recognises that a significant challenge to turn innovative zero emission ideas into volume production rests with the industry's first tier of component suppliers. The purpose of the Liberty Zero Emission Vehicle Foundation is to raise awareness, and attract funds and investment into this sector from private and public sources. It will accelerate the market introduction of zero emission vehicle technologies, over what can be achieved by global market forces alone. Barry Shrier, CEO, Liberty ...
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  I have to admit I was a little amused by the idea of an alarm clock waking me up with an annoying buzz sound only to keep on buzzing UNTIL I do 30 reps.  Designed by Yuk Wang, this novelty alarm clock shaped as a dumbbell has a simple LCD display of a clock on one end.  Found this gym treasure right here and here. Gym buffs would surely appreciate the uncanny way of starting up a great day at the gym.  The question that needs answering is that would you want to wake up to 30 reps everytime!  Forget about throwing this "clock" out the window too.  It may not be too ...
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What I'm referring to is not the latest gadget, but in fact the possibility that the latest scientists at CERN's superlab may rip a hole in space and time. Yes, I know, it sounds bizarre and completely incredulous, but it is in fact true. CERN laboratory has, for a long time, done some of the wildest experiments out there, what with it having a massive particle accelerator and all sorts of other gadgetry. CERN is also the European particle physics centre and home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that is going to be switched on later in the year. This will aid scientists in finding out more about the birth of the universe. Two Russian scientists ...
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Notebook designers and manufacturers have long searched for the holy grail of power efficiency. For this reason, the architecture of portable computers has evolved so much since the advent of laptop computers. And one of the main ways to conserve battery life is by reducing hard disk spinning. Recently, the trend is going towards solid-state storage. This means drives that have no moving parts. Most popular of these is flash memory. They're cheap, durable, and can hold data even without power (unlike volatile RAM, which loses data when power is off). Since flash memory can allegedly reduce consumption caused by spinning hard drives, some manufacturers have switched to using solid state drives for their ...
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Now Lets go to part 2 of What’s right for you? Diesel, Petrol, LPG, Hybrids. If you haven’t read the First Part here it is Click me. Let’s go to the Alternatives and the Hybrids Petrol-Electric Hybrids Petrol-electric hybrid vehicles are those types that run on combination petrol engines and an electric motor powered by an energy storage device such as a battery pack. At Low speeds, the electric motors is in the works but when better performance is need for speed the petrol engine kicks in. The battery packs can be recharged by the use of regenerative braking, your batteries charge when your driving and braking making it more efficient and have lower CO2 emissions. Battery-Electric cars Electric cars types that use battery and ...
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Inspired by Mr. Butterscotch's Post on When Buying a Car I'm going to focus on the explanation of the power source. "Fuel" What's right for you, the environment, what would be cost-effective, and what would last longer, and run efficiently. There are lots of type of cars that use either diesel, petrol , LPG, Electric and Hybrids types. Back in the early days of driving, whenever your low on fuel. Just go to the gas station and "fill 'er up" easy as pie. But now we have to take in the consideration, the cost per gallon, fuel efficiency, what type is our engine and such. Petrol Standard Unleaded Petrol (ULP) / Premium Unleaded Petrol (PULP) Petrol engines run quiet and smooth, with ...
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Lately I've had a lot of problems with one of my hosting companies, Dreamhost. The service is just about the worst you can possibly have, the server load is miserable, the downtime is deplorable. It's all got me thinking about how web hosting could be so much better. It seems to me Web hosting is a black hole of money. All of us webmasters who run websites from small busines owners to big companies need reliable hosting. How could we utilize reliable hosting and also make a social difference in the world. 1) Use a reseller account from a Green Hosting Company 2) Utilize the overhead profits give back to third world countries 3) Encourage hosting clients to publicize their ...
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At Gadzooki we think that the biggest tech innovations over the next century will be directly tied to energy. That may be wishful thinking, but we love the prospect of there being a decentralization of energy. Ultimately there are two goals we'd like to see reached regarding energy innovation. First we'd like to see control of energy put into the hands of the individual citizen! Empower the citizen to create his own (clean) energy. Second, we'd like to see the emergence and dominance of alternative, renewable energy sources. One of the great things about alternative, renewable energies is that they allow for the development and decentralization of small-footprint plants near the renewable source. As an example, ethanol plants are popping up near large corn farms. One of the benefits of the decentralization of energy is that less energy gets wasted in the transport.
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Wired has given us the first glimpse of the new Tesla Roadster which runs on 6,800 lithium-ion batteries. In other words, the Roadster will be a high performance, electric car - quiet engine, no more gasoline. Instead of filling this guy with gasoline, you'll charge it from home (and presumably at charging stations in the middle of the Nevada desert). The Tesla Roadster will come with a home-charging kit that will allow a 3.5 hour recharge. The bigger question: how long does each charge last? No matter. I'm a big fan of a new energy technologies. We all know that technology improves over time, so even if I have ...
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