efficient dynamics Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:21:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 BMW Saves Fuel With Pipe-Mounted Radioactive Device https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-nuclear-thermoelectric-20090309/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-nuclear-thermoelectric-20090309/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:02:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2893 In a world that tries to save more and more of its resources, BMW wants to make use of the car's heat to recover some of the energy lost by thermal means. It's just that they understood this time by being green means putting a radioactive thermoelectric generator in the car's tailpipe.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-nuclear-thermoelectric-20090309/feed/ 4 2893 BMW X3 Hybrid announced to launch in 2008 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-x3-hybrid-announced-to-launch-in-2008-20080206/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-x3-hybrid-announced-to-launch-in-2008-20080206/#respond Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:00:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/06/bmw-x3-hybrid-announced-to-launch-in-2008/   BMW, considered by some critics to be the best car manufacturer in the world, is jumping on the hybrid bandwagon with the Concept X3 EfficientDynamics. In contrast to the gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles from Toyota, Honda, and Ford, the X3 uses high-performance capacitors (“Super Caps”) to store and supply electric energy to the vehicle’s well-packaged […]

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