Archive for July, 2005

Motors and bicycles

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

I’m practicing some semi-technical marketing talk for Stokemonkey here. Does it work for you?

A direct current electric motor operating at a given voltage will spin up to a certain speed, called the unloaded speed. At this speed the motor produces no useful mechanical power. Once you hook things up to the motor, giving it work [...]

Mr. Kunstler on the phone, and a hat tip to Kash

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Bikescape has a podcast with James Howard Kunstler this week. For those not in the know, Mr. Kunstler is probably the most active and acerbic professional commentator on the trouble we’ve made for ourselves with car culture. He doesn’t tie it all in so relentlessly to cars as some of us do, but I think [...]