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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

Cars That Think

To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. Naval Research Laboratory , in Washington, D.C., Army’s Blossom Point test facility south of Washington, D.C. Can the same basic physics be harnessed to replace wires today? They used 9.7-gigahertz

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

During his campaign, President Obama said he would work to put one million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015. You lose the flexibility of the hybrid being able to fuel up nearly instantaneously at a gas station, and pay an additional $10k for that loss. people’s desire for electric over gas cars 2. — Dan 3.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1. So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. April 16, 2009 3:28 pm Link Jared - that’s a one time emission and certainly better than what would come out of a gas powered car over its lifetime.

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