Is EEStor delaying its power system for cars?
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The start-up's futuristic ultracapacitor--a device that holds electricity and functions somewhat like a battery--may not hit the market until 2008.
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Ian Wright, CEO and founder of Wrightspeed, discusses of the future of electric cars.
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Problems designing accessories that don't drain the Chevrolet Volt's lithium-ion batteries have General Motors adopting "redundant systems" that increase costs. And have you seen that bizarre ad?
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As&#160;One Laptop Per Child prepares to ship its highly anticipated XO laptops in two weeks, it is developing a &quot;supercharger,&quot; a mass battery recharger that will draw power from cows and yo-yos to help the laptops run longer.The supercharger is a box that will charge 15 batteries at a time, said Mary Lou Jepsen, chief technology officer for OLPC.The supercharger complements other environmentally friendly battery charging technologies being used or under development for the XO laptop, Jepsen said. Users can hook up handcranks, cows, yo-yos, foot pedals and solar panels to the box to recharge batteries.Last week OLPC said it was designing a cow-powered generator through a dynamo with a system of belts and pulleys using cattle to generate power.A typical charge cycle for a laptop battery should be about three hours, Jepsen said. Groups of children will be able to share batteries.Currently in design, the supercharger will be ready for manufacturing next year, Jepsen said.A laptop&#39;s mileage depends on its usage, so OLPC designed an environmentally friendly laptop that could work with a rugged, low-power battery, Jepsen said. The laptop&#39;s specially designed lithium-ferro phosphate battery consumes between 2 watts to 8 watts depending on usage, Jepsen said. It lasts five years and works in environments up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius), Jepsen said.The XO batteries do not work on normal laptops, which can sap up to 40 watts of power depending on usage, Jepsen said.The XO is also the first laptop that uses only alternative energy, Jepsen said. Low-cost solar panels are great as a power option where there is plenty of sunlight, Jepsen said. Energy is especially scare in developing nations, so the laptop will hopefully pass on energy preservation lessons, which could help preserve battery life in the XO, Jepsen said.The laptop goes into manufacturing this week after three years of design experimentation and attempts to reduce manufacturing cost. It will first be offered in two weeks to consumers in the Give 1 Get 1 program, in which two laptops can be purchased for about US$400, with a user getting one laptop and the other being donated.&quot;We&#39;re exhausted, but exhilarated,&quot; Jepsen said.REFERENCES:OLPC experiments with cow-powered laptops ... seriously, Oct. 24, 2007
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An electrical problem forced NASA to postpone Wednesday's liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis yet again, and engineers faced with a tight launch schedule struggled to understand the problem.
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It could be a single malfunctioning power supply. Or, from the other side of the glass, it could be a portent of doom for a technology that would make good use of all those TV channels that no one's broadcasting on, for wireless networking.
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Ford will return hundreds of electric cars to Norway after protests about its plans to scrap them. Also: IBM and SCO Group tussle over Unix lawsuit & hellip;. Former Enterasys Networks CEO pleads guilty to fraud conspiracy charge & hellip;. and more.
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By Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An electrical problem forced NASA to postpone Wednesday's liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis yet again, and engineers faced with a tight launch schedule struggled to understand the problem.
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The MR2 is built. Dear god, I am sore and tired. &nbsp;It started Friday night and was expected to be a job done by Saturday afternoon. Sunday afternoon rolls around and we're still smashing things... There's odds and ends to clean up (I'm absolutely sure it needs an alignment and set of plugs) but otherwise I am done working on cars for quite awhile.
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Pesky Flash disks... Waiting for the 8GB Eee PC? Then you're going to have to wait a little longer - until April at least, it has been alleged, thanks to problems Asus is having getting the machine out of the door.â¦
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By mike Lindblom, Seattle Times  Dec. 18--Some communities on the Eastside will have to wait several more days before they have electricity again, utility officials warn.
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Ultracapacitors will prevent the need for jump starts in chilly weather. In Autopia.
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Power failure? Some hybrid owners are plugging their houses into their cars to provide backup electricity.
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Google and Pacific Gas & Electric have unveiled their vision of a future in which cars and trucks are partly powered by the countryâs electric grids, and vice versa.
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Wiring woes continue The wiring problems which earlier this year forced Airbus parent company EADS to delay delivery of its A380 by six months continue to plague the roll-out programme.â¦
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Plug-in electric cars could defeat Toyota's Prius and recharge Detroit. And Detroit desperately needs recharging. By John Gartner.
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By James A. Jones Jr., The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jun. 5--EAST MANATEE -- There is no argument that the area needs plenty of electric power and redundancy, so that the grid doesn't fail in a hurricane and leave residents in the dark for days and maybe weeks.