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The Town of Amherst is hoping to save some greenbacks by going greener. On Monday, the Town Board discussed the possibility of installing solar energy systems on some of its town buildings. Though the initial installation and equipment purchase would ...Read more
Amherst considers hooking up to solar system - Buffalo News
We have just seen the collapse of the financial Goliath that was built by fast-buck bankers and encouraged by altruistic but shortsighted government policies that required banks to make more loans to those least able to repay them, and encouraged ...Read more
Don’t rush to invest in wind, solar power - Buffalo News
FOX CHAPEL, Pa. - Phillip N.H. Smith worked on an experimental solar-powered house when he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. Now, the retired Copperweld Corp. chief executive and his wife, Martha, want to use some of ...Read more
Home, business owners harness solar power in Pa. - Philadelphia Inquirer
Scientists have reported the development of tiny solar cells that are only a quarter of the size of a grain of white rice. The team of researchers, led by Xiaomei Jiang of the University of South Florida, foresee the solar cells may be used as a ...Read more
Small, Flexible Solar Cells May Bring New Energy Opportunities - Redorbit.com
A credit card with its own LCD display and keypad has been unveiled. Visa says the card will cut down on online shopping fraud. It will be tested in Britain early next year by the company MBNA. Each card, identical in size and shape to current ones ...Read more
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The future was unclear because of the low range and small lifespan of the batteries. But there are several developments which could bring back electric vehicles outside of their current field of application -- namely operational yards and indoor operation. The first improvement[1] was to decouple the electric motor from the battery through electronic control while employing ultra-capacitors to buffer large but short power demands and recuperable braking energy. The development of new cell types compared with intelligent cell management improved both weak points mentioned above. The cell management is not only able to monitor the health of the cells but by having a redundant cell configuration (one cell more than needed) and a sophisticated switched wiring it is possible to condition one cell after the other while the rest are on duty. Perhaps the most important point is that a monovalent operation (electric only) is no longer considered dogma. The use of fuel cells instead of internal combustion engines can create propulsion systems that are nearly emissions-free (regarding local emissions). In an electric drive vehicle, the torque is supplied to the wheels by an electric motor to propel the vehicle.? BEVs produce no tailpipe emissions.? The batteries are recharged from the grid and from regenerative braking.? Types of battery electric vehicles in widespread use today include low-speed, neighborhood electric vehicles, airport ground support equipment, and off-road industrial equipment such as fork lifts.
Advantages of battery electric vehicles (BEVs):
-Zero tailpipe emissions (no CO2 or other pollutants
-Use of cleaner electric energy produced through advanced natural gas and coal gasification technologies
-Energy security by displacing imported petroleum with domestic generated electricity