Thinking about electric vehicles

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Electric vehicles reduce noise and local air pollution, such as nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and ground-level ozone, but do they simply relocate the carbon tire-tracks to fossil-fired power stations or are there benefits on the global scale?

Fundamentally, an electric engine can achieve 85 to 90% energy conversion efficiency, which contrasts starkly with the internal combustion engine, which can achieve at most 20%, requiring the conversion of …

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Sciencebase blogging schedule

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This is the Sciencebase blogging schedule for the remainder of 2009:

Sciencebase.com Dec 8 – Science news round-up with a spectral twist

Sciencebase.com Dec 9 Electric vehicles better than hybrids?

ImagingStorm.co.uk – Dec 10 Science of sepia-toned photography

Sciencetext.com Dec 15 Cathartic emails for overworked journalists

Sciencetext.com Dec 16 Tips for Twitter brutes

Sciencebase.com Dec 17 Pre-Xmas science book reviews

SciScoop.com Dec 22 Large Hadron Collider (LHC) diatribe (anon guest post)

Sciencebase.com Dec 23 Green by design

Sciencebase.com Dec 24 Happy Solstice Event

Nothing’s fixed …

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Twitter science list categories

Posted in Geek, Science at 8:45 am by David Bradley -- 15 Comments; add yours

 

List name
Following

scientwists

500

archaeo
7

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