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Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale

Cars That Think

They’re in all of your appliances not powered by a hand crank, in the climate-control systems that keep you comfortable, and in the pumps, fans, and window controls of your car. For decades, however, engineers have been tantalized by the virtues of motors based on an entirely different principle: electrostatics.

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Junkyard Find: 1993 Nissan Sentra with 320,165 miles

The Truth About Cars

However, I do make an effort to shoot inmates of car graveyards in other states (including Minnesota , Wisconsin , Illinois , Nevada , North Carolina , Arizona , North Dakota , Washington and Wyoming ) and other countries ( Sweden , England ). The combination of harsh sun and damp climate has been rough on the paint.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

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