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Solar Energy Collecting as an Alternative Energy Source

According my previous articles – alternatives energy-1 and alternatives energy-2, there many different form in which alternative energy is available. And one of these alternative energy is solar energy. Solar energy is power by photovoltaic cells. Photovoltaic cells are getting less expensive (gradually) and also getting more efficient. This alternative energy can be used for heating, making hot water, electricity, and many more. In reality, so…

President Obama Announces $2.4Billion in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles

…Battery, and Materials Manufacturing Facilities: $1,247 million Applicant DOE Award ($mil.) Project locations Technology Johnson Controls $299.2 Holland, MI Lebanon, OR (Entek) Production of nickel-cobalt-metal battery cells and packs, as well as production of battery separators (by partner Entek) for hybrid and electric vehicles. A123 Systems, Inc. $249.1 Romulus, MI Brownstown, MI Manufacturing of nano-iron phosphate cathode powder and…

Hybrid Car Battery: The Fact about The Hybrid Car Battery

…me dangerous waste materials concerns. The design of hybrid automobile batteries utilises a NiMH construction which is totally recyclable and produce a lot reduced poisonous waste results. Hybrid Car Battery Include Countless Cells Conventional car power packs possess not many cells and also the degeneration of any one of these could have a catastrophic effect on overall performance. Hybrid vehicle electric batteries are constructed of a huge sel…

Nissan and Honda Consider Plug-in Hybrids

As the long term stratergy for sustainable mobility, Nissan and Honda have been banking on electric cars and fuel cells. The executives of company are now warming up to plug-in hybrids. Hybrid cars have been repeatedly dismissed – since their introduction in the United State market in late 1999 – as a ‘bridge technology’ – an euphemism for a hybrid technology that briefly serves a purpose until it can be replaced with something longer lastin…