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Dean Kamen’s Electric/Stirling Hybrid

Monday, November 17, 2008

Dean Kamen, inventor and entrepreneur, has pieced together a hybrid that uses electric battery power for the drive train, and a Stirling engine for heat and defogging. In a pinch, the Stirling engine can also be used to recharge the battery. Read the whole story at UnionLeader.com
And check out this TedTalk from 2002. Kamen [...]

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Google Mapping Public Transit (And Giving Directions!)

Saturday, September 20, 2008

From WorldChanging.com
this article was written by Jeremy Faludi in June 2007. We’re republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.
Google Transit was already the best thing that ever happened to online public transit trip planning, and now it’s grown to a whole new level. Even better, it’s starting to be incorporated into the [...]

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Energy Export Database

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

very cool online database
A databrowser for exploring:

Where are oil & gas produced?
Where are oil & gas consumed?
How has this changed?

http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/index.html

http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/index.html

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