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OilDrum: Delusions of Finance: Where We are HeadedSource: The Oil Drum Back in October, I participated in the 2nd International Biophysical Economics Conference at SUNY-ESF in Syracuse, New York. Charlie Hall had written to me, inviting me to come and give a talk. Specifically, he wanted me to go back to my post from January 2008 called Peak Oil and the Financial Markets: A Forecast for 2008 and explain why my forecasts had turned out pretty close to correct, while many others widely missed the mark. The title he suggested for the talk was Delusions of Finance. GM-Volt: Chevrolet Chief on Volt Supply and DemandSource: gm-volt.com I just had the opportunity to interview Jim Campbell who is GM’s newest Chevrolet brand director. I raised with him the issue of how the company will deal with the possibility demand could far… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] AllCarsElectric: CalCars Felix Kramer Says National Academy of Sciences Report on EVs and Plug-Ins is FlawedSource: All Cars Electric The annual Electric Drive Transportation Association meeting held in conjunction with the Washington Auto Show is one of the largest events on American soil for electric vehicles. The EDTA conference is a place where automakers, battery developers, suppliers, industry experts, and journalists converge to discuss electric vehicles. The event… AllCarsElectric: Former NY Governor Calls For 40% of Vehicles on Roads by 2020 to be ElectricSource: All Cars Electric Former Governor of New York City George Pataki made an appearance at the Washington Auto Show awhile back. At the show, he made a bold statement that he hopes will ring true. Pataki called for 40% of all the vehicles on the roads in 2020 to be electric vehicles. His numbers are significantly higher than anyone else expects to see and probably… volt914: Revised Front WiringSource: volt914 - Electric Porsche 914 This weekend ended up cold and snowy, so mostly I worked on finishing up the front wiring. Photos will come later, for now, here is the revised circuit diagram. This includes the details of which connectors go to what - this will make it much easier to attach things when in the car: Plugbike: Brunel X-Team Returns In 2010 With The BX-10Source: Plugbike Last year the engineering students of West London’s Brunel University X-Team brought the BX-09 to the Isle Of Man TT. In a very short time frame they completed the Triumph Daytona 675 based electric, got it to the start and with the help of TT rider Steve Harper completed the race. Plugbike: Video Infers Zero S Will Soon Get More PowerSource: Plugbike Zero Motorcycles posted a video of a guy from the Engineering department doing a burn out on a Zero S. GM-Volt: Jaguar Says Only ‘Self Charging’ Extended Range Electric Cars Make SenseSource: gm-volt.com Jaguar intends to be the third automaker to mass produce an extended range electric car, joining Chevrolet’s Volt and Fisker’s Karma. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] OilDrum: The THAI process for bitumen and heavy oilSource: The Oil Drum For a while, when I was a student, I had an attic bedroom that was heated by a small coal fire, with a relatively short chimney up to the roof. I learned, fairly early on, that in starting the fire you needed a fairly high velocity air flow across the coals, and underlying firewood strips. And to get this I would rest a shovel over the front of the fireplace, and try and seal off the sides. I kept a small bellows beside the fire to help when this wasn’t particularly successful. OilDrum: Drumbeat: February 7, 2010Source: The Oil Drum Racking up miles? Maybe not. AllCarsElectric: Japanese Transportation Ministry Orders Investigation Into Toyota Prius Braking IssueSource: All Cars Electric st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The Toyota recalls have made headline stories for at least a week now. The company is working feverishly to fix the problems and rebuild a possibly tarnished image. Just when things could not possibly get any worst for Toyota, they just did. According to the New York Times, the Japanese government has ordered the… GreenTransportation: Coda specs and technical stuffSource: Green Transportation Examiner Photo by David Herron Coda’s electric car is so normal looking (see First impressions of the Coda electric sedan) that the components under the hood are sort of remniscient of a gas engine compartment, until you realize there’s no engine. … GreenTransportation: First impressions of the Coda electric sedanSource: Green Transportation Examiner Photo by David HerronToday Coda Automotive attended the San Francisco Electric Auto Association meeting to talk about their electric car that’s due to go on sale this year. I was privileged to be a passenger for a ride around the block, and am… ElectricChronicles: tail section. yes. yes indeed.Source: The Electric Chronicles
OilDrum: Medical Dark MatterSource: The Oil Drum Below the fold is a guest essay from a friend of mine who is an internal medicine M.D. practicing in East-central Minnesota. (He posts on The Oil Drum as ‘Rock climber’). The post is a shortened version of a longer essay on the interrelationships between health care, human health, human happiness and resource use. As the healthcare sector makes up fully 17% of the GDP of the USA and therefore represents a significant fraction of our resource throughput, this is a very important topic in discussions of more sustainable systems. EVCAST: EVcast #323. Kung-Fo Brammo!Source: EVCAST [1:54:33] Join Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, Gavin Shoebridge from EVsecrets.com and Gavinshoebridge.com along with Kearon de Clouet of EVcapri.com as they discuss the week’s EV news. This episode is sponsored by Evcarco.com.
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http://www.evcast.com/l1/evcast/appdata/blog/00000348.mp3 (55031227 bytes audio/mpeg) OilDrum: Drumbeat: February 6, 2010Source: The Oil Drum OIL FUTURES: Oil Drops Steeply, Breaking Key Support Level GM-Volt: Op-Ed: Prius Halo Damaged; Toyota Pressured to Announce Recall on 270,000 Units Already Sold, as CEO President Finally Breaks CoverSource: gm-volt.com While the damage to Toyota’s reputation has certainly taken a hit of late due to the widely publicized problems with stuck accelerator pedals on many models, a case could have been made that it… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] AllCarsElectric: BMW Discusses Owners' Reactions to Mini E Lease Program, Drivers Delighted With VehicleSource: All Cars Electric st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The lease of the prototype Mini E has been a success. BMW discussed some of their results from the field testing program of the Mini E and opened their press conference with the headline, “Mini E Drivers Delighted with Electric Vehicle Experience.” The Mini E lease program has been ongoing and is still a work in… GreenTransportation: Electric supermotorcycle maker Mission Motors pondering a deal with Chinese motorcycle companySource: Green Transportation Examiner Photo courtesy Mission Motors Related Articles Lightning Motors has second fastest electric motorcycle, ahead of Mission MotorsWhy Vectrix is teetering on bankruptcy, pt. I According to reports surfacing from China over the last couple days… OilDrum: Meet Trev: A two-seater renewable energy vehicleSource: The Oil Drum Major auto companies are now close to bringing their first electric vehicles onto the market. But in many cases these new vehicles are as big and heavy as their gasoline powered brethren, and consequently burn just as much energy even though they take it from batteries rather than a fuel tank. In the greater scheme of things, I’m not convinced that helps us very much. |
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