tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58171957777734653602024-03-05T03:50:29.986-08:00Vancouver's City-TV Features Solar Roadshow carsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817195777773465360.post-51560042554371112962007-08-10T13:23:00.000-07:002009-04-30T08:37:10.870-07:00Wind and Solar Power on City-TV Feature<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvhbzm0UlFHUlHnUFZ6WpllcWl7RxzTIH8vs9i6f-Ks3xvzT51220qiWS5MV9sijDWCa-z3W11FYWd6k6aRXcNyksN2QcVjoRJBK613Mqt3LnwDlQ2gsJz5FV3mVHX600JS1gh1AYZQWU/s1600-h/CHINATOWN_CITY_TV_+002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvhbzm0UlFHUlHnUFZ6WpllcWl7RxzTIH8vs9i6f-Ks3xvzT51220qiWS5MV9sijDWCa-z3W11FYWd6k6aRXcNyksN2QcVjoRJBK613Mqt3LnwDlQ2gsJz5FV3mVHX600JS1gh1AYZQWU/s400/CHINATOWN_CITY_TV_+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097175739494947202" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJwDVfOaMKpVCjxTvOBgT2_fz5Su2SIqnl5H7Du3ePEc9kfoMrNTWB-BpUg2cezsG1YzKrPePQXHVqLlQoEER-hiWJovjUKPMtT87EWf3ntQRYXf_N4vxx38Tink_3z4Oi8ANBaQUjC4/s1600-h/CHINATOWN_CITY_TV_+005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJwDVfOaMKpVCjxTvOBgT2_fz5Su2SIqnl5H7Du3ePEc9kfoMrNTWB-BpUg2cezsG1YzKrPePQXHVqLlQoEER-hiWJovjUKPMtT87EWf3ntQRYXf_N4vxx38Tink_3z4Oi8ANBaQUjC4/s400/CHINATOWN_CITY_TV_+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097174850436716914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" >Tasha Chiu Co-Host, BT - BreakfastTelevision, City TV, shows <a href="http://tinyurl.com/pd8pt">Rob Matthies</a>, the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/pujga">Solar Power Roadshow</a>, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEq-GbVcFTA">world's first</a> '<a href="http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/1091">discarded battery</a>' <a href="http://electric-vehicle-article.blogspot.com/">electric pickup</a> truck. This show covered the Vancouver Chinatown <a href="http://tinyurl.com/38cp9h">Festival</a>.<br /><br />Tasha is holding the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lo9kz">Roadshow's</a> model wind turbine which generates electricity to power the attached <a href="http://tinyurl.com/s87h8">model electric car</a> at a wind speed of only 5kph --- whereas most other windmills require wind speeds of 16kph or more.<br /><br />This is the first time this style of wind turbine has been shown on Canadian TV. Also, its three 'bent-propeller' blades do the work of six blades and change shape with as RPM changes. The efficiency of this wind turbine is greater than 35 percent.<br /><br />Two students from <a href="http://www.silbury.ca/">Silbury School & Resource Centre</a> helped Tasha demonstrate how to build a model <a href="http://tinyurl.com/7kcfj">solar-powered car</a> for the festival. Tasha said, several times, that these students were "bright kids" and knew what do to. One Silbury student explained that the lack of sunlight wasn't a problem with solar power because he <a href="http://www.geocities.com/solarpowerroadshow/Did_The_Impossibles.html">revived alkaline batteries</a> with solar power when the sky was so dim that planes weren't allowed to land at the airport. (That <a href="http://www.geocities.com/solarpowerroadshow/Silbury_Batt_Workshop.html">battery-revival workshop</a> for Silbury School was documented and aired on TV by Channel-M.)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Click on any photo to zoom in.</span><br /><br />.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" >.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Questions? New Tel. Contact: </span></span></span><br /></div> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">6 0 4 - 5 1 2 - 9 5 6 7</span></span><br /><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br />.<br /><br /><br />.<br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='280' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxg586iK9ae8RXzaG6UisAvOvrqJAoMtEsIeLJH5dp8jMKbmv1jl08spqIxZPXG3dBTQcdFWxAgUEYZFFmeGg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0