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Posts Tagged ‘system’
Green living, Science & Technology, Apr 6th, 2010,
On April 26th the city of Tokyo, Japan will experiment with a new public system for charging electric vehicles. The ‘battery swap’ method robotically changes empty batteries for fully charged ones at specially equipped charging stations. This innovative system, developed by the American company Better Place, provides a much quicker way of charging electric cars than the traditional ‘plug in and wait’ option. The battery swap system will be tested for a three-month trial period by a major taxi firm located in Tokyo’s central Roppongi district. From an article in the Guardian: All of our components will be tested together…
Tags: battery, better place, cars, charging, electric, EV, Fluence, japan, Renault, stations, swap, system, Tokyo, trial, vehicle
Green living, Health, Politics, Mar 23rd, 2010,
As an American who has lived in various European countries during the last ten years, I have an unusual, but perhaps insightful perspective on various health care systems. The cheapest and most efficient health care I ever experienced was during my teenage years and was provided by the US military, in the form of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center in Washington, DC. They weren’t cushy and had lousy magazines, but these massive mega-mall style centers provided everything from GPs to specialists to filling prescriptions to hospital care at no cost to the patient…
Tags: America, American, bill, care, conflict of interest, health care, hospital, insurance, medical, private, profit, Sweden, system, US
