Today, full-service gas stations have largely gone the way of drive-in movie theatres and travel agents: While they're not entirely gone, pumping your own gas is certainly a more common practice. The slowdeath of full-service gas stationsbegan in 1947 when Los Angeles gas station operator F...
So traveling down the road driving at night on a poorly lit 4 lane highway I see barely off in the far distance of a vehicle behind me a few miles back a puff of smoke and what feels like I hit a wavy portion of road and the trailer is feeling kind of bouncing I pull over to ...
This means that when the road goes uphill in the game, pedalling gets harder just like it would in the real world. They are 'wheel-on', which means you keep the wheel on your bike and place your tyre against a roller, while a special rear axle holds the bike in place on the ...
Last July, the town switched on 1MW of solar, 4MW of wind and a 500kWh battery. Before the hybrid project, Coober Pedy relied on a 3.9MW diesel power station and trucked in the expensive diesel to run it. Now renewable energy provides about 70 percent of the town's needs, and the p...
Volkswagen and Ford are building 400 fast-charging stations in Europe. Volkswagen is building hundreds of stations across the U.S. as part of its settlement for selling polluting diesel engines. Even oil-rich Dubai, which just got its first Tesla showroom, has more than 50 locations to charge...
Moreo- ver, electronic and group visas will be introduced in the near future. At the same time, we are working on improving our border and immi- gration controls. Two bus stations and a railway station are under construction, and we will commence building our international airport's new ...
But instinctively it feels to me that wide adoption of solar is inevitable and we just need a catalyst to make that happen. Maybe that will be electric cars. Or maybe it will be something else. I’m interested in what folks here at AVC think about this question....
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water-energy nexus; island; diesel engine; renewable energy; desalination1. Introduction Although small islands’ energy and water supply problems and solutions have been studied for a long time, high costs are still experienced. A levelized cost of energy of EUR 0.38/kWh [1], in some cases ...