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Cadillac looked into this once for a prototype. Not sure if they ever applied it. The idea being of course to cut down aerodynamic drag of the side mirrors. Rear bumper cameras have been on RV's for years now and I think UPS has (finally) added them to their fleet. Feasible?

On a much, much larger scale, I believe that American Superconductor was doing and actually delivering capacitors to be used for grid management. They were also getting on to applications for marine motors for the navy. Any Relevance to the Tesla thing. Maybe a topic for another thread, but the...

Thanks for fleshing out my understanding of the basics. I do not wish to defame Mr. Bussard. I just like to maintain a healthy skepticism in a world in which one of the truest lessons I have learned is that if something is too good to be true it is not likley to be true. If Dr. Bussard is close...

As if China has ever had any reservations about pirating anyone else under the sun's technology. I have heard of Bussard before but really know little about him. I hate to disparage anything that is so far above my head technically, but this has many of the earmarks of a fraud. I'm just sayin'...

Wall St. Journal has article today on car buyers preference for quiet cars and the involved efforts required to diminish the lead cause-wind noise. A sort of differant consideration than those outside the cars perceptions of the cars noise. One measure taken that the Roadster will likley be...

Todays Wall Street Journal (subscription) takes a front page look at Austin, TX project to use EV batteries to store energy for peaking coverage. Very good to get the utilities involved early. Austin mgr. Dustin was greeted with silence from automakers when presented with the details of the...