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 100km. This [...]
So far so Good. Rebecca & I have been without a car for a couple of months now and it’s about time I give a feedback on how it is going.
Long story short…no worse than before!
As before we’re still using walking, buses and taxi as our main source of movement. We use the bus every [...]
The government/metlink has introduced a new website http://www.letscarpool.govt.nz/ where you can search/join car pools. I think this is a great idea especially for those living a little further out of town. But I’d be surprised if Kiwis take this up at all. There’s just too much car-love going on. For the congestion & environments sake [...]
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 the [...]
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 nice [...]
We read a lot about how datacenters need to be more energy efficient. PCs are becoming more and more energy efficient. That is true and is happening but what’s alarming is that we use ever more of the energy efficient stuff.
Where we had single core systems in the past we now have quad/eight-core systems. They [...]
IKEA is a household name all across the World. All the World? No. Two small islands in the Pacific resist the trend. New Zealand has NO IKEA! Here in NZ we live without the cheap but quality goods. Especially Europeans miss their favourite furniture store.
There are hundreds of rumours around the so-called Auckland-IKEA. It’s probably [...]
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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