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rallain | April 22, 2010I wasn't paying attention. Earth Day is today. If I would have thought of this before, I could have done something awesome. Instead, here are some reposts related to the Earth and energy. They have been sitting for a while in my post-compost, so they are nice and smelly.
Most of these deal with Earth-type stuff and energy.
Rotation of the Earth as an energy source. What if we could some how use the rotational energy of the Earth? How much would we have to slow it down to get something useful?
Solar Powered motorcycle - possible? There was this story about an electric motorcycle that is…
rallain | August 13, 2009What's the deal with the Chevy Volt? Well, obviously, it is a cool car. A plug-in hybrid. The problem is in how to quantify its efficiency. Normal hybrids (the non-plug in type) have only one type of energy input, gasoline. The Volt can take gasoline or electricity input. This makes it difficult to compare the efficiency of other cars. What is efficiency? There are several things you could calculate.
Actual MPG
This is the distance the car travels (the miles part) divided by how much gasoline it used (the gallons part). Pretty straight forward? Ah ha! Not so straight forward for…