lightning Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:33:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Speed Record Set By Solar-Powered “Lightning” Motorcycle https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-solar-motorcycle-20121119/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-solar-motorcycle-20121119/#respond Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:31:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28308 Lightning Motorcycles has broken yet another record. With their electric motorcycle, they reached a speed of 189.086 mph for a course of 1.3 miles, running down the El mirage dry lake bed. This might come as a surprise to some, but the record is not just for electric motorcycles but for gas-powered ones too. In […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-solar-motorcycle-20121119/feed/ 0 28308 Lightnings Found to Produce 10% of Atmospheric NOx Greenhouse Gas https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-nox-global-warming-20091108/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-nox-global-warming-20091108/#respond Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:49:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5239 Every year, scientists learn something new about the power of lightning. With the helps of the satellites they have created a lightning map for the globe, which shows that Rwanda has the most flashes per square kilometer, while the flashes at the polar regions occur rarely. Every year, 1,2 million flashes occur around the world.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-nox-global-warming-20091108/feed/ 0 5239 ElectraWall Photovoltaic System Working Even at Night Time https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electrawall-photovoltaic-system-working-even-at-night-time-20090601/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electrawall-photovoltaic-system-working-even-at-night-time-20090601/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:38:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3625 Your safety is the thing that counts most while being behind the wheel on the highway. And when the night falls the situation is getting critical. But Solaroad Technologies Group has thought of a system that can light the roads using the daylight energy.

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