My blog host, WordPress.com, continues to give its bloggers new offerings to help us in placing our articles around the Internet and for you to email and/or print a post or static page for yourself. You are the important contributor to the Internet sharing. By selecting one or more buttons from the sharing bar, you send information for others to read. I appreciate that. I invite you to look for articles from the past that you like and share those as well. To this point today [and this began this afternoon], this blog has had 147 shares, not counting any tweets you may have sent. I’m impressed with what you have done. Thank you very much!!!
Daily Archives: August 24, 2010
The Copenhagen Wheel ~ Will it succeed? Reply
Only time will tell. It is to come to market 06/11. My research finds The Copenhagen Wheel is currently in final prototyping phase and will go commercial in June 2011 – the cost will be approximately $600 US per wheel. It was unveiled December 15, 2009, at the COP15 United Nations Climate Conference. The project was conceived and developed by the SENSEable City Lab for the Kobenhavns Kommune. The prototype bikes were made with the help of their technical partner Ducati Energia and funding from the Copenhagen Ministry for the Environment. It seems the project has a sound beginning.
The Copenhagen Wheel ~ just a bit more… Reply
THE COPENHAGEN WHEEL
The Copenhagen Wheel turns the bike you already own, quickly and easily into an electric bike with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities. The wheel harvests the energy you input while braking and cycling and stores it for
when you need a bit of a boost. At the same time, sensors in the wheel are collecting information about air and noise pollution, congestion and road conditions.
