<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/db98092d-2935-426e-ac5f-c7f46a8ff900/0A83E5AE-B9BD-47FC-84A2-FAB1E3906BDF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090517/tc_nm/us_korea_recharging_road_1" href="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090517/tc_nm/us_korea_recharging_road_1" style="font-size: 11px;">tech.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090517/tc_nm/us_korea_recharging_road_1"><H2>South Korea tries recharging road to power vehicles </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090517/tc_nm/us_korea_recharging_road_1"><P><SPAN id="lw_1242532446_0" class="yshortcuts">South Korea</SPAN>'s top technology university has developed a plan to <SPAN id="lw_1242532446_1" class="yshortcuts">power electric cars</SPAN> through recharging strips embedded in roadways that use a technology to transfer energy found in some <SPAN id="lw_1242532446_2" class="yshortcuts">electric toothbrushes</SPAN>.</p> <P> The plan, still in the experimental stage, calls for placing power strips about 20 cm (8 inches) to 90 cm (35 inches) wide and perhaps several hundred meters long built into the top of roads.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090517/tc_nm/us_korea_recharging_road_1"><P> Vehicles with sensor-driven magnetic devices on their underside can suck up energy as they travel over the strips without coming into direct contact.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090517/tc_nm/us_korea_recharging_road_1"><P> "If we place these strips on about 10 percent of roadways in a city, we could power <SPAN id="lw_1242532446_3" class="yshortcuts">electric vehicles</SPAN>," said Cho Dong-ho, the manager of the "online <SPAN id="lw_1242532446_4" class="yshortcuts">electric vehicle</SPAN>" plan at the <SPAN id="lw_1242532446_5" class="yshortcuts">Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090517/tc_nm/us_korea_recharging_road_1"><P> The system that can charge several vehicles at once would allow <SPAN id="lw_1242532446_9" class="yshortcuts">electric cars</SPAN> and buses to cut down on their battery sizes or extend their ranges.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0A83E5AE-B9BD-47FC-84A2-FAB1E3906BDF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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