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In the 19th century, Maxwell figured out that you can't explain electromagnetic phenomena in terms of the existing fundamentals — space, time, mass, Newton's laws — so he postulated fundamental laws of electromagnetism and postulated electric charge as a fundamental element that those laws govern.
In Boulder, Colorado, voters not too long ago approved a process to replace the private power company, literally the power company, the electric company Xcel, with a publicly owned utility that would forego profits and attend far more to climate change.
If we could take a gigantic kettle, the kind you could plug into a power socket, an electric one, and put those 20 billion metric tons of water in it, how much power would you need to have this water evaporated?
I don't have to list all those things to an audience like this, but you can see the electric cars, you can see the batteries using new materials.
That price is also a signal that maybe we need to start looking at other technologies, in the same way that gasoline prices are a signal and an impetus, to, say, the development of electric cars.
The only technology involved here is this cheap electric fencing: relatively new, hooked to a car battery; even I could carry a quarter-acre paddock, set it up in 15 minutes.
The story goes that participants were prepared to give what they believed to be fatal electric shocks to a fellow participant when they got a question wrong, just because someone in a white coat told them to.
This is a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck in circles on the road.
Or, can we help the mobility of the aging population by transforming very standard wheelchairs into cool, electric vehicles?
Well, it turns out that if you give a crayfish a lot of little tiny electric shocks every time it tries to come out of its burrow, it will develop anxiety.
It has a very small mass and negative electric charge.
It's antiparticle, the positron, has exactly the same mass, but a positive electric charge.
How long would it take if you received constant electric shocks to your hands?
In solar panels, photons from the sun's rays hit the surface of a panel, and electrons are released to get an electric current going.
Because in that compressed space, there was a creative explosion, ignited by the electric excitement of new geopolitical frontiers, which set on fire the ancient missionary tradition of the Church and produced one of the greatest works of art in history.
Similarly, the electric shock from a defibrillator doesn't jump-start an inanimate heart, but resynchronizes the muscle cells in an abnormally beating heart so they regain their normal rhythm.
Neutrons have no repelling electric charge so they're easily captured by the iron group elements.
And as levels of cortisol rise, electric signals in your hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with learning, memories, and stress control, deteriorate.
Do any of you drive hybrid cars or even electric cars?
One electric car doesn't amount to much in a fleet of 1.2 billion combustion engine vehicles.
But each exit is blocked by an electric barrier with a combination keypad.
Moments later, the buzz of the electric barrier stops for a few seconds, and you realize that Zara has escaped.
We are investing in sustainable transport and subsidizing the purchase of electric vehicles.
How to install zero-emissions buildings, how to deploy electric car-sharing systems.
That's the Tesla electric automobile.
In 2005, a lot of people in the automobile industry were saying, we would not have a decent electric car for 50 years.
Police and prison guards in Cambodia, for example, have been documented subjecting sex workers to what can only be described as torture: threats at gunpoint, beatings, electric shocks, rape and denial of food.
The red coating will seal it against the cold of deep space, the purple coating will protect it from the intense heat as it enters the atmosphere of RH-1729, and the green coating will shield it from the alien planet’s electric storms.
It rearranges itself to be red in deep space, purple as it enters RH-1729’s atmosphere, and green when it flies through the electric storms.
But still, if you slightly perturb a plasma equilibrium, you will find that the resulting electric field spontaneously vanishes, or damps out, as if by some mysterious friction force.
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