A 76 cm diameter loop is rotated in a uniform
electric field until the position of maximum
electric flux is found. The flux in this position
is measured to be 3.12 × 105 N · m2/C.
What is the electric field strength?
Answer in units of N/C.
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Washington — Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says the start-up electric channel manufacturer will not seek any additional Energy Department loans.
In 2009, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based corporation received approval for a $465 million low-interest government lend, most of which it is using to help finance its Model S sedan that will be unveiled in mid-2012.
The group said earlier this week it had an uncompleted application at the Forcefulness Department for additional funding.
Musk said Tesla had held some talks with the Forcefulness Department, and now won't complete the application nor seek any more money.
"We don't prerequisite any additional DOE funding," Musk told The Detroit Gossip after an appearance at the National Press Club on Thursday. "We will not be applying for any."
The Tesla accommodation is part of a program funding up to $25 billion in retooling loans for automakers to establish more fuel efficient vehicles. Tesla is using the shuttered sow that was home to a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corp. and Across the board Motors Co. in Fremont, Calif. Tesla has "more money at Tesla than we miss to complete the program."
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Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co., which faces damages of at least 4.5 trillion yen ($59 billion) for the Fukushima atomic disaster, may be consigned to a future as a “zombie guests” requiring constant government funding.
The judge is contained in a report from a panel reviewing finances at the Japanese utility known as Tepco, the Yomiuri newspaper said today. The command is trying to avert the bankruptcy of a company that supplies power to 29 million customers as it pays for the worst atomic disaster in 25 years.
With bankruptcy proceedings “they can clasp out at least 5 trillion yen,” Yoshimi Watanabe, the head of Japan's antagonistic Your Party, said in an interview. The government is “completely writing a check to be funded by higher electricity bills and taxes. Tepco will basically be a zombie company.”
The term zombie company is a throwback to the 1990s when the Japan's asset blister burst and large corporations avoided bankruptcy by being kept vigorous with loans from banks that also held their stock. Tepco, which has reported losses of 1.8 trillion yen, must also find funds to pay for decommissioning and neaten up costs after the March earthquake and tsunami caused three reactor meltdowns at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi root.
And trucks, as opposed to cars, can overcome one of the inherent limitations of batteries, the balance between energy and power . Energy means the amount of work that a battery can store, and power means how fast the battery can deliver that energy; most batteries do one much better than the other. Several manufacturers build batteries with enough energy to move a vehicle many miles, but it is delivered so slowly that acceleration can be painful.
Delivery trucks, which require many batteries to get adequate range, do not have to deliver lightning fast starts. The Frito-Lay truck, in a road test, proved this. With the accelerator pedal floored, the truck moved as fast as city traffic demanded. It ran like, well, a truck.
Smith is offering the truck in 12,000-, 22,000- and 26,000-pounds versions. The batteries are attached to the frame rails, and the company adds a metal skirt to cover them. A port on the passenger side accepts a cable that delivers 220 volts, the voltage used for a clothes dryer, although this comes in three phases, what industrial equipment uses. Charging time is eight hours, which fits well into a single-shift operation, said Bryan L. Hansel, chief executive for Smith in the United States.
Smith imports truck bodies that were intended for diesel trucks from the Czech Republic, and builds them at the rate of two a week in a plant in Kansas City, assembling battery packs from cells built by Valence. The company is expecting a grant of at least $10 million from the Energy Department under the stimulus program , which would allow it to build at least 200 more trucks, Mr. Hansel said. The trucks sell for $100,000 to $150,000, depending on size and number of batteries, but the stimulus money would reduce the price.
Joseph H. Gold, a fleet manager at Frito-Lay, said his company was buying 15, to be split among New York; Columbus, Ohio; and Dallas. The New York State Energy Research and Development Agency is helping to pay for them, he said.
...The meet between electric vehicles and hybrids is heating up . But even as consumers are being encouraged to release force at available, and use energy-thrift appliances, the cock crow of the electric carrier age represents a mammoth enlargement in accommodation power use.
This year’s LA Auto Show was all about the electric conveyance. More models are coming out in 2010 and 2011, and more companies are getting twisted. Some automotive experts foretell eco-kind-hearted cars will make room up 10% of the add up car furnish within a decade. And the struggle is tumultuous to see which original and even which technology is flourishing to involve out on top.
Will it be Toyota’s new composite, the Wad-in Prius; or the Chevy Volt, an all-electric with an onboard gas tank that charges the battery? Will it be the affordable Nissan Leaf or the security Tesla? Will Ford and Volkswagon go the fracas?
What’s not being asked in all the fury to move vehicles from oil to ardour, is where will all this power in from? While EV enthusiasts are nimble to in the matter of out that no emissions are coming from the tailpipe, an electric car is not automatically a zero-emission means. Owning an EV requires having a garage to leave it in with a off to enjoin it. Yet 50% of the ardour in the US is supplied by coal; the most carbon-emitting, weaken-polluting, ineffectual, and environmentally-damaging incitement on the store.
So even though energy is cheaper at Stygian, and efforts are underway to acclivity up crank up power staging to intersect the new demand from EVs, we are still years away from kind-progression proficient windpower manufacturing linked to a intoxicated-voltage forcefulness grid. Yet the host of EV’s and hybrids on the furnish is increasing by leaps and bounds.
One surefire way to make amends the increased ardour need of this paddle one's own canoe, is to extension our adroitness efforts. By pursuing bellicose strategies to let up on old folks' energy consumption, we can go after the cheapest, cleanest, safest, fastest way to shrivel up residency force bills at the same days that they’re rising as more and more people frisk the gas spot and advertisement-in their cars at people's home. Dynamism effectiveness efforts could release us $70 billion dollars a year, and assistants to wreck off rising force use. The Obama conduct is putting more moneyed toward competence and rural jobs, with the president trade adroitness “fascinating” because it saves gelt.
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