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Homes That Use Thermal Inertia to Maintain Comfortable Temperatures

By harnessing the ability of materials to store heat and give it off slowly, “Enertia” houses maintain a relatively fixed and comfortable temperature
Enertia is a brand name for homes designed and sold in kits by North Carolina-based Enertia Building Systems (EBS). The idea essentially marries the concepts of geothermal and passive solar heating/cooling into what [...]

Mechanical bolt-on KERS hybrid for buses offers 30% fuel saving

It seems that the lessons learned in developing a mechanical KERS system for F1 may yet hold the key to a low-cost, high-efficiency hybrid system particularly suited for the stop-start patterns of buses, which are quite similar to the distances between capturing and delivering energy of those of a race car. Torotrak will deliver a [...]

Goal of M.I.T. Electric Car Is 10-Minute Charge Time

A team of six undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has converted a 2010 Mercury Milan hybrid into a pure battery electric car.

Hybrid System Of Human-Machine Interaction Created

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Scientists at FAU have created a “hybrid” system to examine real-time interactions between humans and machines (virtual partners). By pitting human against machine, they open up the possibility of exploring and understanding a wide variety of interactions between minds and machines, and establishing the first step toward a much friendlier [...]

Ultra-wideband Radio Rides A Beam Of Light

Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European researchers.
Moshe Ran, Coordinator of the EU-funded project, UROOF (Photonic components for Ultra-wideband Radio Over Optical Fiber), has a vision. He wants to see streams of high-definition video and other high-bandwidth services [...]