Audi A2 – photo credit: matze_ott An electric car drove the 372 miles (600 km) from Munich to Berlin without recharging its battery this week (Tuesday, October 26, 2010) Tuesday, setting what is being claimed as a world distance record for an everyday vehicle. The 27-year-old driver driver Mirko Hannemann delivered the four-door yellow and purple… Continue reading
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How easy will it be to charge an electric car?
The first fax machine, and the introduction of unleaded petrol came at about the same time, in the late 1980s. I’m reminded of how how hard it was to find both of these things, as we await the arrival of the first mainstream electric cars (EVs), scheduled for 2011. The first generation EVs will have… Continue reading →
"Wonder material" wins Noble Prize for Manchester scientists
Graphene -: CORE-Materials Everything in our three-dimensional world has a width, length and height, or so we thought. But scientists have now identified another class of — according to 2010 Nobel Prize winner Andre Geim — “wonder materials” that are stronger and stiffer than diamond, yet can be stretched like rubber. They are one atom thick, he… Continue reading →
“Strong link” between air pollution and diabetes – US researchers
The environment around the busy urban road is a dangerous place to live, was brought air quality linked to cases of asthma, bronchial disease and death. New research from Boston appears to show that polluted air is raising diabetes rates as well.
Continue reading →"One Tonne Life" – Can a household cut its Co2 output by 85%?
The estimable 10:10 project has been urging us to cut our carbon footprint by just a little (10% in 2010), and many have taken the challenge, concluding that such a teensy-weensy reduction can’t be so hard. But what if you’re asked to cut your carbon by 85% — that’s the reduction in consumption from today’s… Continue reading →
Britain has biggest windfarm — but do we care?
What are we to make of the biggest windfarm in the world, which opened seven miles (12km) off Foreness Point in Thanet, on the Kent coast this week (Thursday, September 23, 2010)? The building scheme which has been exercising the media this week is the Commonwealth Games village, and the attendant structurally-suspect infrastructure in New… Continue reading →