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Ultralight Vehicles: Non-Linear Correlations Between Weight and Safety
Development of dramatically lightweight and fuel-efficient vehicles has been slowed by perceptions that lighter vehicles are less safe. Highly safe lightweight vehicles may seem counterintuitive.
Intermittent Renewables in the Next-Generation Utility
Advances in digital communications and renewable energy technologies are poised to facilitate a transition to a “next-generation utility” that fully integrates both supply- and demand-side…
Digging Deep: Are CFLs Really Green?
This paper addresses the debate over compact fluorescent lamps and incandescent light bulbs through lifecycle analysis. It compares the environmental impacts of providing a given…
Systems Thinking for Radically Efficient and Profitable Data Centers
This presentation shows how to apply a whole-system approach to the energy use in data centers in order to provide 95–99% energy savings. The authors…
Smart Garage Charrette Preread Core
The Smart Garage Charrette Preread Core gives the most important background on the Smart Garage vision (united vehicles, the grid, and buildings through vehicle electrification),…