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[EarthSystemScience] EarthSystemScience » Regenerative Shock Absorbers Boost Fuel ...: A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. The students hope to initially find customers among companies that operate large fleets of heavy vehicles.

[Gizmodo] Cars: MIT Shock Absorbers Harness Speed Bump Energy For Better ...: Senior Shakeel Avadhany and his teammates say they can produce up to a 10 percent improvement in overall vehicle fuel efficiency by using the regenerative shock absorbers. The company that produces Humvees for the army, and is currently working on development of the next-generation version of the all-purpose vehicle, is interested enough to have loaned them a vehicle for testing purposes.

[Wired: Autopia] High-Tech Shocks Turn Bumps Into Power | Autopia from Wired.com: Its inventors claim a heavy-duty truck using six of their GenShock shock absorbers can produce enough power to displace the alternator, thereby increasing engine efficiency and fuel economy. The students have attracted the attention of AM General, the company behind the military Humvee, and believe future iterations of GenShock could improve the fuel economy of passenger cars and extend the range of electric vehicles.

[Auto Blog News] Auto Blog News » High-Tech Shocks Turn Bumps Into Power: Its inventors claim a heavy-duty truck using six of their GenShock shock absorbers can produce enough power to displace the alternator, thereby increasing engine efficiency and fuel economy. The students have attracted the attention of AM General, the company behind the military HUMVEE, and believe future iterations of GenShock could improve the fuel economy of passenger cars and extend the range of electric vehicles.

[Hamara News covers Politics, Sports, Technology, Education, Science, Energy, Religion, Arts, Culture, Literature, Travel, Tourism] Now, shock absorbers that harness road bumps to generate ...: The new system also has a fail-safe feature-if the electronics fail for any reason, .Not only would improved fuel efficiency be a big plus for the army by requiring less stockpiling and transportation of fuel into the war zone, but the better ride produced by the actively controlled shock absorbers make for safer .

[Green Car Congress] Green Car Congress: MIT Students Develop Hydraulic Energy ...: Semiactive suspensions are basically, shock absorbers which can vary their damping coefficient rapidly, so as to offer resistance to motion when we want it, but not when we don't. Said devices can use variable orifices, or they may utilize electrorheological or magnetorheological fluids whose viscosity may be varied rapidly simply by varying an applied electrostatic or magnetic field.

[Tech Fragments] MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car: If you had a GenShock, you may not mind those potholes in the road any longer because this new prototype shock actually harvests energy from bumps in the road to save on fuel. A team of students at MIT have invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smooths the ride more effectively than conventional shocks.

[CanadianDriver] CanadianDriver » Green News » MIT students invent energy ...: Senior Shakeel Avadhany and his teammates say they can produce up to a 10 per cent improvement in overall vehicle fuel efficiency by using the regenerative shock absorbers. The project began when the students tried to determine where energy is wasted in a vehicle, and rented a variety of models, outfitting the suspensions with sensors to determine the energy potential.

[Top 10 News] M&M’s World Headlines: Feb 16, 2009Ares News: A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. The students hope to initially find customers among companies that operate large fleets of heavy vehicles.

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » M&M’s World Headlines: Feb 16, 2009: A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks.

[Environment and Energy] Cool Idea of the Day: Bump, and Go! - Environment and Energy: A team of students at MIT have invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smooths the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. In their testing so far, the students found that in a 6-shock heavy truck, each shock absorber could generate up to an average of 1 kW on a standard road.

[yKvz Blog] MIT Shock Absorbers Harness Speed Bump Energy For Better Fuel ...: Senior Shakeel Avadhany and his teammates say they can produce up to a 10 percent improvement in overall vehicle fuel efficiency by using the regenerative shock absorbers. The company that produces Humvees for the army, and is currently working on development of the next-generation version of the all-purpose vehicle, is interested enough to have loaned them a vehicle for testing purposes.

[Long-Term Road Tests] 2009 VW Jetta TDI: Fuel Economy Update | Long-Term Road Tests Blog ...: The diesel noise, vibrations and smells tend to be greatly over-exaggerated by those who have little experience with them. From reading syt_shadow's comments, you'd think the car will shake itself apart and sound like some diesel transport truck.

[AutoNet TV] AutoNet TV » Blog Archive » Shocks and Struts: Regular shocks use hydraulic fluid and air as their dampening system.  Premium quality shocks and struts use compressed nitrogen gas instead of air.  Gas shocks don’t get air bubbles that affect the performance of regular shocks.  If you do a lot of high performance driving, off-roading or just want added comfort and control, think about getting premium gas shocks or struts.

[Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion] 'Limits to Growth' Author Honored for Once-Ridiculed Warnings ...: Jorgen Randers, Meadows’ co-author on all three editions of The Limits to Growth and a professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian School of Management, has also watched human society losing its grasp on sustainability. As he puts it: “We have postponed too long pushing the brake in a world system with a very long braking distance.

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