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Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale

Cars That Think

And, perhaps even better, they would use only cheap, plentiful materials, rather than the rare-earth elements, special steel alloys, and copious quantities of copper found in conventional motors. He actually used the motor as a rotisserie to grill a turkey on a riverbank in Philadelphia” (a fact unearthed by the late historian I.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Mr. Thesen said that a factory in Turkey was being refurbished to be able to produce 100,000 electric vehicles a year. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation.

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From Waiter to Guest at Nantucket’s Grande Dame Hotel

Baua Electric

Never cheap, Nantucket has become a vertiginously expensive destination. It was perfect succulence, but at $42.00, hardly a workingman’s lunch.

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Pableaux Johnson, the Heart of New Orleans Hospitality, Dies at 59

Baua Electric

During the holidays he would stockpile cheap turkeys in a freezer, which he would turn into gallons of gumbo that he delivered, earning the nickname Gumbo Claus. He made delightful intimate portraits of most people he met, disarming subjects with a joke or by saying, Think of me as your Cajun grandma with a beard.