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		<title>Wind Car Update – 13 of 6</title>
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Video production: TWA Productions
A day at Bruntingthorpe
Two weeks ago now we took the Nemesis to Bruntingthorpe, for it’s first real track day.  
We had two purposes, to test safety followed by speed.

The safety aspect was about the stability of the car in the event that one of the motors or belts suddenly quit – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2010/08/23/wind-car-update-%e2%80%93-13-of-6/</link>
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		<title>Nemesis Latest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry it&#8217;s been a few weeks since I posted anything on the car here, or anything at all on this site in fact, my bad – only excuse is there&#8217;s a lot going on.  More of that next week I hope.
Meanwhile, on the car front:
The new lightweight rear end and rear diffusers are both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2010/04/23/nemesis-latest/</link>
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		<title>The Wind Car – Episode 9 of 6</title>
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 Video production: Tim Walter Associates Limited
This months highlights are;
Meeting the Sun&#8217;s environment correspondent – yes seriously.  They&#8217;ve not had one very long but they do have one and he is serious about it &#8211; and: 
That amazing machine at Leeds University &#8211; the one that looks like it belongs on a Sci Fi [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/05/26/the-wind-car-episode-9-of-6/</link>
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		<title>The Wind Car – Episode 8 of 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[				
				
 Video production: Tim Walter Associates Limited
Here’s our latest video.  The big focus of this episode is design and, as you’ll see, it’s definitely taking shape.
I’m off to Norfolk next week to meet the Sun, they love the idea BTW, and nail down a few questions on detail (with the A team).
Couple more weeks after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/04/17/the-wind-car-%e2%80%93-episode-8-of-6/</link>
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		<title>The car with no name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[				
				
 Video production: Tim Walter Associates Limited
I was in Norfolk earlier this week for a milestone in the development of our wind powered car, the first turning of its wheels&#8230;!
While I was there I met with John Vidal the Environment Editor of the Guardian.  He&#8217;s a great guy John, enjoyed discussing things with him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/03/16/the-car-with-no-name/</link>
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		<title>The Wind Car (4 of 6) &#8211; Time for a name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here it is then, the fourth episode of the making of our wind car.  By the time we get to the sixth I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;ll be on the road.
				
				
 Video production: Tim Walter Associates Limited
Good vid this one, all looks very industrial over there in Norfolk &#8211; and stuff is starting to come together.
I&#8217;m thinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/12/16/the-wind-car-ep4-time-for-a-name/</link>
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		<title>Wind car video update &#8211; part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the third in our series of monthly wind car videos.
				
				
 Video production: Tim Walter Associates Limited
You can see the body really starting to take shape here, and hear Peter talk about &#8216;toughening up&#8217; of the look, from his original.
We&#8217;ve &#8216;placed&#8217; all the parts within the car now and began machining/producing some of the bigger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/11/21/wind-car-video-update-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Are cars greener than bikes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is perhaps a surprising question to ask.  The assumption we&#8217;d all probably make is that bikes must be the greenest form of transport.  Certainly that&#8217;s a view put to me in recent comments, arguing that I shouldn&#8217;t be promoting wind powered cars &#8211; mainly because bikes are greener than any kind of car. 
But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/10/29/are-cars-greener-than-bikes/</link>
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		<title>The Wind Car is on its way &#8211; video update part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the second of our monthly video updates on the Wind car project.
				
				
 Video production: Tim Walter Associates Limited
I’m off to Norfolk next week to take a look at the proposed body modifications and generally have a catch up with the team.  I’m looking fwd to it.
Chassis has been lengthened, battery housing and transmission [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/10/20/the-wind-car-is-on-its-way-video-update-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Where on Earth will all the Lithium come from?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months we’ve been discussing here how we’ll all get around post oil, looking closely at how electric or wind powered cars might work.  
The ranges made possible by new batteries seem very practical, when looked at against current car use patterns refuelling appears to be possible, even desirable, without the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/10/08/where-on-earth-will-all-the-lithium-come-from/</link>
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		<title>The Wind Car is on its way &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work started in earnest on our wind powered car about 6 weeks ago.  We&#8217;re making good progress, close to plan and budget so far.
Here&#8217;s a short video showing our progress so far: 
				
				
 Video production: Tim Walter Associates Limited
Should be posting one of these a month now as we count down to the day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/09/15/the-wind-car-is-on-its-way/</link>
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		<title>Can the Grid take it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted a couple of visions of garages of the future recently.
The first vision was of an internet café style ‘park and surf while you charge’ kind of thing.  Looked cool, not a bad first stab, but on further examination &#8211; it wasn’t it.
The second vision is an abandoned, moss grown relic.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/09/05/can-the-grid-take-it/</link>
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		<title>Looking for Green Gold down under&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard on the heels of a record Olympics for the Brits…….:)
I’m off to Oz in a few days to join the Greenbird team and attempt to take the world land speed record – powered only by the wind.

Greenbird,  the awesome looking craft in the picture above, we named as a nod to Donald Campbell and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/08/27/looking-for-green-gold-down-under/</link>
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		<title>More thoughts on ‘garages’ of the future – they won’t exist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s our revised, mocked up vision of ‘the petrol station of the future’.
We’ve been discussing the charging of electric cars in previous posts and I’d suggested a vision of rows of charging posts and it taking 20 minutes or so to fill your car up while you surfed the net or otherwise chilled out. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/07/03/more-thoughts-on-garages-of-the-future-they-wont-exist/</link>
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		<title>Petrol Stations of the future – swap shop or not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Simon for your comments on Petrol Stations of the Future (and to Will and to Chris also). I started writing responses, but again this is quite a big topic so have turned it into a new post instead (for those who have just joined the thread &#8211; you can read the first post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/06/10/petrol-stations-of-the-future-swap-shop-or-not/</link>
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		<title>Another Tesla? – preferably not.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Peter and Simon for their posts last week.
Has Tesla really killed of the myth of rubbish electric cars as Simon says?  And are we just trying to make another Tesla as Peter says?
Tesla’s big success has been to convince so many people that they’ve actually done it.  That their car is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/05/16/another-tesla-%e2%80%93-preferably-not/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m no Jeremy&#8230; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Norfolk yesterday meeting the team that are building the car for  us.  We&#8217;ve reached the end of the feasibility phase (the donor car is in  absolute pieces).  We shot some more film on the day and now have enough to make  a short promo to tout to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/05/08/im-no-jeremy-part-2/</link>
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		<title>I’m no Jeremy Clarkson (let’s get that straight…)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But I am a bit of a petrol head.  I like fast things, mostly bikes.  People ask how I can be both a petrol head and an environmentalist – fair question. Well nobody’s perfect, I’m certainly not.  We all live in the real world, the one in which we make compromises and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/04/24/im-no-jeremy-clarkson/</link>
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