For details on development of the Composite Bearingless Rotor and its derivatives see my accompanying article Failed Dream: the Bearingless … Read more
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The hollowing out of these once great American industrial giants is a sad story, and unfortunately that story has repercussions that will be felt for years to come as the country tries to come to grips with its intractable emissions problem. Although not the only root cause, a remarkable amount of the culpability rests on Jack Welch and his destructive take on capitalism.
Republican strategist Mike Murphy recently joined Imogen on the Fully Charged Show Podcast to talk all things EVs, EV Politics Project, Elon, 2024 presidential election analysis, and more! Mike Murphy is the founder of EVPolitics.org to end the needless partisan divide over EVs
I’ve tracked battery degradation in the EVs we’ve driven during the past decade. The short answer is that our Nissan Leaf lost a lot, our Chevy Bolts not so much.
Since switching to the Bolts, we’ve traveled nearly 70,000 miles on three different batteries. Each battery has lost about 5% of its capacity over 20,000 to 30,000 miles. Importantly, this modest capacity loss hasn’t affected how we use the cars or how far we can drive them.
While editing an article I stumbled across some photos of a Windane turbine on Pajeula Peak in the Tehachapi Pass. … Read more
Another article on the history of wind turbine development has been published in the academic publication Wind Engineering, an imprint … Read more
I’ve uploaded a Multilingual Lexicon of more than 200 terms to a Google spreadsheet. The lexicon describes terms used in wind energy in six different languages: English, Dansk, Deutsch, Español, Français, and Italiano.
This 30,000 word glossary was written by Paul Gipe and Bill Canter in the late-1990s. I’ve added the glossary to my web site for both its historical content—many of the terms were in use during the 1980s and 1990s—and as a reference for the thousands of newcomers to the wind industry since it was first published.
Yes it is. Back in 2022 I wrote two articles on solar and wind-powered EVs. The former I said held … Read more
I came across an article by Michelle Lewis at Elektrek on a recent scientific paper on the mental models we … Read more
