I’ve blogged about quite a few electric whatevers. But this one’s really cool. Have a look…. http://www.elmoto-cycles.com/ Inventors from Stuttgart in Germany have crossed a mountain bike with an electric scooter. Looks great and should be the ideal thing for Kiwis. Goes 45km/h and has a radius of over 60km. Costs about a $1 per [...]
An idea that never occurred to me is that we could utilise petrol engines more effectively by using electric propulsion. The dutch company e-traction has developed a diesel-electric drive train that brings down diesel consumption and pollution for buses quite significantly. A diesel engine charges the batteries that drive the bus with electric engines. Because [...]
Somehow it’s odd that I seem to be blogging more about political and environmental issues than anything else these days. I have never really considdered myself a political person. Politics was something better left to polititians. I think most people of this world nowadays think like that. The past 2 years have brought about a [...]
One of the things that just went wrong last week was that the Mitsubishi dealer took a look at my car and mumbled something like “$4000 in repairs”. For that I can buy two used Mitsus! That has sealed the fate of this car. It’s now up as wreckage on TradeMe. Hope that somebody can [...]
I’ve said time and again that I think hydrogen propulsion will be a solution only for trucks, planes and motorbikes. The reason being that batteries would be impractical in these vehicles. But at least on the latter I stand to be corrected. Have a look at this beautiful creation…. I’d say that is a very [...]
While blogging and thinking about those electric scooters I’ve finally thought my way back to the power source (again). I’m still terribly angry at the present government for going back on the whole coal for energy thing but that’s a separate rant. So what are we supposed to do?! The effective energy sources destroy the [...]
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Well seems like someone put it very simple for the masses… I think the message is that simple and maybe we can do it without the politicians. You don’t necessarily need a law to forbid lightbulbs (thanks Nats for killing that act). You can just go and buy energy efficient ones. You can stop asking [...]