photo credit: kosabeMany people are not even considering the new generation of electric cars (EVs) because of range anxiety. This is the fear of setting off in an EV, and not making it home, or to a charging point before you grind to a halt. Manufacturers promise a range of around 100 miles, but is… 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 →
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 →