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Consider the transition from the traditional automobile to electric transport.
Some companies, such as C3 Energy, offer electric utilities software that can analyze their electrical networks to improve grid operations and asset utilization, thereby increasing profits.
To take one example, small business owners subscribe to electric service as individual consumers and can even qualify for subsidies of up to 80%.
Costa Rica has just approved a law promoting electric trains, and legislators are debating a bill to provide incentives for electric vehicles and buses.
As David explains, before electric motors were installed in factories, machines were arranged around centralized steam engines, to which they were connected by belts and pulleys.
Yet the NPT is clear: any signatory country that gives up nuclear weapons and accepts the IAEA’s absolute and unconditional control is entitled to produce electric energy from civil nuclear sources, and to receive from the international community, if necessary, technical and financial support.
They function somewhat like a battery, except that their fuel is constantly replenished, reacting electrochemically with the air’s oxygen to make electricity to drive an electric motor.
But because of the weight of electric batteries, their limited range, cost, and other considerations, batteries are best suited primarily for short-range city cars.
Within ten years, shifting to more efficient electric cars will almost certainly reduce the costs of road transport, benefiting rural and small-town car owners even more than city dwellers.
Technology and Economic GrowthROME: The story of Elihu Thompson, the inventor of the electric dynamo, and ultimately a founder of one of America's great companies, General Electric, recurs frequently in the speeches of Alan Greenspan.
Such research may also shed light on whether the current extraordinary expansion of the U.S. economy, which has lasted uninterrupted for the past nine years, is simply a prolonged streak of luck or represents the effect of a new technological revolution, similar to the one which occurred at the end of the 19th century and which is best symbolized by the spread of electric power.
The reason why the Federal Reserve is studying the electric dynamo is, obviously, not the Fed's interest in history.
The reason for this delayed impact was the same as a hundred years earlier in the case of the electric dynamo: the difficulties that firms encountered in modifying the organization of their labor forces in such a way as to benefit from such technologies as e-mail and the internet.
If firewalls are strong, or redundancy and resilience allow quick recovery, or the prospect of a self-enforcing response (“an electric fence”) seems possible, an attack becomes less attractive.
China is intent on lowering CO2 emissions, cleaning its air, and becoming the twenty-first-century leader in low-carbon technologies such as photovoltaics and electric vehicles.
In fact, since the Industrial Revolution, efficiency through innovation has revolutionized just a handful of core energy-conversion inventions: the internal combustion engine, the electric motor, the light bulb, the gas turbine, the steam engine, and, more recently, the electronic circuit.
The government also could start aggressively pushing a shift to electric vehicles.
In support of his thesis, he offers several examples of “parallel instances” of invention: there were six separate inventors of the thermometer, three of the hypodermic needle, four of vaccination, five of the electric telegraph, and so on.
A report in 2012 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimated that the circular economy concept could save the European Union alone $380 billion annually in materials for medium-lifespan consumer durables such as cars, furniture, and household electric appliances.
Rapid cost reductions are also being achieved in battery and other energy-storage technologies, bringing electric cars closer to economic viability and enabling flexible electricity supply even where a large percentage of power comes from intermittent sources.
Pathways to a low-carbon future focus on three main actions: improving energy efficiency, producing electricity from low-carbon energy sources (such as solar and wind energy), and switching from petroleum to low-carbon energy for powering vehicles (such as electric or fuel-cell vehicles) and heating buildings.
While we already have high-quality electric vehicles, they require improvements in range and cost to be able to outcompete conventional vehicles.
With renewables like solar and wind consistently outperforming expectations, growth in electric vehicles far exceeding projections, and governments worldwide acknowledging the urgency of tackling climate change, the writing is on the wall.
The next stage needs the world’s engineering experts on power generation and transmission, electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, artificial intelligence for energy systems management, urban design for energy efficiency and public transport, and related specialists.
This zero-carbon electricity will power electric vehicles that replace our internal-combustion engine cars.
Most of China’s dams serve multiple functions, including generating electric power and meeting manufacturing, mining, irrigation, and municipal-supply water needs.
These items range from small ones, like the $7,500 tax credit that goes to a buyer of an electric car, to large (for example, the deduction for mortgage interest and the exclusion from taxable income of employer payments for employee health insurance).
Furthermore, MIT has developed the foldable electric CityCar, four of which can fit into a conventional parking space.
New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
China is also engaged in constructing a $500 million electric plant and railway link between Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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