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2009-04-10T22:37:00.006-04:00

Printed supercapacitor could feed power-hungry gadgets

( April 10th 2009 by Colin Barras) For similar stories, visit the Nanotechnology Topic Guide

A supercapacitor – a device that can unleash large amounts of charge very quickly – has been created using printing technology for the first time. The advance will pave the way for "printed" power supplies that could be useful as gadgets become thinner, lighter and even flexible.

Advances in electronics mean portable gadgets are shrinking in size but growing in their energy demands, and conventional batteries are struggling to cope.

Batteries are slow to recharge because they store energy chemically. By contrast, capacitors, which are common in electronics, are short-term stores of electrical energy that charge almost instantaneously but hold little energy.

In recent years capacitors able to store thousands of times as much energy as standard ones, called supercapacitors, have been developed. They are charged by applying a voltage to two electrodes suspended in a solution so that positive ions head to one electrode and negative ions to the other.

Now, a team led by George Grüner at the University of California, Los Angeles, has printed a supercapacitor for the first time, building on earlier theoretical work to provide quick bursts of power that today's electronics devices demand.

Team members sprayed carbon nanotubes onto a plastic film – two such films act as both the device's electrodes and charge collectors. Between the two films, the team sandwiched a gel electrolyte made by mixing a water-soluble synthetic polymer with phosphoric acid and water.

Experimental batteries

He thinks the real advance in the new work is in engineering – many researchers study the electrochemistry of potential flexible supercapacitor components, but no one has built a working flexible device before. "There's more than the electrochemistry to think about here – there are manufacturing and material selection issues to consider too," says Chen.
Both Grüner and Chen think portable devices will ultimately carry a battery and a supercapacitor to provide the high energy storage and fast energy discharges demanded by modern devices.
But Chen points out that experimental batteries show some promise towards filling both roles. They have the energy storage of normal batteries, but also possess a power density rivalling supercapacitors, meaning they can charge and release energy 100 times as fast as normal lithium ion batteries.
Journal reference: Nano Letters (DOI: 10.1021/nl8038579)

Live or MemoMatrix?

2007-08-16T18:40:00.022-04:00

Nick Bostrom discussing his theory
that we're already living in a computer
simulation, but don't know it, on
'Countdown With Keith Olbermann"
15 August 2007:

Living in a simulation? Video will open in another window.

NYT Times piece here:
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: August 14, 2007

Findings
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch

Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims.

But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.
This simulation would be similar to the one in “The Matrix,” in which most humans don’t realize that their lives and their world are just illusions created in their brains while their bodies are suspended in vats of liquid. But in Dr. Bostrom’s notion of reality, you wouldn’t even have a body made of flesh. Your brain would exist only as a network of computer circuits.

You couldn’t, as in “The Matrix,” unplug your brain and escape from your vat to see the physical world. You couldn’t see through the illusion except by using the sort of logic employed by Dr. Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or “posthumans,” could run “ancestor simulations” of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems.

Some computer experts have projected, based on trends in processing power, that we will have such a computer by the middle of this century, but it doesn’t matter for Dr. Bostrom’s argument whether it takes 50 years or 5 million years. If civilization survived long enough to reach that stage, and if the posthumans were to run lots of simulations for research purposes or entertainment, then the number of virtual ancestors they created would be vastly greater than the number of real ancestors.

There would be no way for any of these ancestors to know for sure whether they were virtual or real, because the sights and feelings they’d experience would be indistinguishable. But since there would be so many more virtual ancestors, any individual could figure that the odds made it nearly certain that he or she was living in a virtual world.

The math and the logic are inexorable once you assume that lots of simulations are being run. But there are a couple of alternative hypotheses, as Dr. Bostrom points out. One is that civilization never attains the technology to run simulations (perhaps because it self-destructs before reaching that stage). The other hypothesis is that posthumans decide not to run the simulations.

“This kind of posthuman might have other ways of having fun, like stimulating their pleasure centers directly,” Dr. Bostrom says. “Maybe they wouldn’t need to do simulations for scientific reasons because they’d have better methodologies for understanding their past. It’s quite possible they would have moral prohibitions against simulating people, although the fact that something is immoral doesn’t mean it won’t happen.”

Dr. Bostrom doesn’t pretend to know which of these hypotheses is more likely, but he thinks none of them can be ruled out. “My gut feeling, and it’s nothing more than that,” he says, “is that there’s a 20 percent chance we’re living in a computer simulation.”

My gut feeling is that the odds are better than 20 percent, maybe better than even. I think it’s highly likely that civilization could endure to produce those supercomputers. And if owners of the computers were anything like the millions of people immersed in virtual worlds like Second Life, SimCity and World of Warcraft, they’d be running simulations just to get a chance to control history — or maybe give themselves virtual roles as Cleopatra or Napoleon.

It’s unsettling to think of the world being run by a futuristic computer geek, although we might at last dispose of that of classic theological question: How could God allow so much evil in the world? For the same reason there are plagues and earthquakes and battles in games like World of Warcraft. Peace is boring, Dude.

A more practical question is how to behave in a computer simulation. Your first impulse might be to say nothing matters anymore because nothing’s real. But just because your neural circuits are made of silicon (or whatever posthumans would use in their computers) instead of carbon doesn’t mean your feelings are any less real.

David J. Chalmers, a philosopher at the Australian National University, says Dr. Bostrom’s simulation hypothesis isn’t a cause for skepticism, but simply a different metaphysical explanation of our world. Whatever you’re touching now — a sheet of paper, a keyboard, a coffee mug — is real to you even if it’s created on a computer circuit rather than fashioned out of wood, plastic or clay.

You still have the desire to live as long as you can in this virtual world — and in any simulated afterlife that the designer of this world might bestow on you. Maybe that means following traditional moral principles, if you think the posthuman designer shares those morals and would reward you for being a good person.

Or maybe, as suggested by Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University, you should try to be as interesting as possible, on the theory that the designer is more likely to keep you around for the next simulation. (For more on survival strategies in a computer simulation, go to www.nytimes.com/tierneylab.)

Of course, it’s tough to guess what the designer would be like. He or she might have a body made of flesh or plastic, but the designer might also be a virtual being living inside the computer of a still more advanced form of intelligence. There could be layer upon layer of simulations until you finally reached the architect of the first simulation — the Prime Designer, let’s call him or her (or it).

Then again, maybe the Prime Designer wouldn’t allow any of his or her creations to start simulating their own worlds. Once they got smart enough to do so, they’d presumably realize, by Dr. Bostrom’s logic, that they themselves were probably simulations. Would that ruin the fun for the Prime Designer?
If simulations stop once the simulated inhabitants understand what’s going on, then I really shouldn’t be spreading Dr. Bostrom’s ideas. But if you’re still around to read this, I guess the Prime Designer is reasonably tolerant, or maybe curious to see how we react once we start figuring out the situation.
It’s also possible that there would be logistical problems in creating layer upon layer of simulations. There might not be enough computing power to continue the simulation if billions of inhabitants of a virtual world started creating their own virtual worlds with billions of inhabitants apiece.

If that’s true, it’s bad news for the futurists who think we’ll have a computer this century with the power to simulate all the inhabitants on earth. We’d start our simulation, expecting to observe a new virtual world, but instead our own world might end — not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a message on the Prime Designer’s computer.

It might be something clunky like “Insufficient Memory to Continue Simulation.” But I like to think it would be simple and familiar: “Game Over.”

Adam Sandler Rides A Scooter in "Reign Over Me"

2007-03-18T10:22:00.002-04:00

It was inevitable that a post 9/!! widow/er, 3 hanky flick, was gonna come out, whodathunkit was gonna be an Adam Sandler vehicle?

I'm going to leave off any discussion of the film's relative merits on this site, since the focus is on technology, maybe I'll post about it elswhere, but I do want to mention that in the trailer that's making the rounds we see both Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle tooling around Manhattan's streets on the kind of scooter we champion here on Digital Components.

Yes, I know it's a gas model, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

I don't have a lot of hope that it will spark the revolution in the general public mind that this is the future of urban transport, but maybe it will break through and convince a few folk that are tired of paying $2 a ride on the NYC subway system that this is not only a viable alternative, but an economic one since it costs all of 2 cents a day to use an electric scooter in Manhattan.

At around $300 for a scooter like Adam Sandler rides in "Reign Over Me" the thing pays for itself in all of 3 months, or less.

Go see this movie, if you like, there was talk about releasing it last December for Oscar season, so the performances may be worthwhile.

The Authoritarians

2007-02-21T20:03:00.000-05:00

The Authoritarians

Herein lie the Psychological roots of Bush supporters, fascists and psychopathic psychosis. Enjoy!

My daily Musings: What I learn from my web browsing

2007-02-21T16:44:00.002-05:00

My daily Musings: What I learn from my web browsing
My Fave Pic here is the Buddhist Monk burning himself to death to protest the torture of Priests.
I really believe these pics affected the deep consciousness of the American People,
thus leading to the end of the Viet Nam war.

http://homland.gov.safenow.org - what to do in an emergency

2007-02-13T20:53:00.000-05:00

http://homland.gov.safenow.org - what to do in an emergency
Hey now!

Wired News: Teledildonics Takes a Step

2007-02-10T00:05:00.000-05:00

Wired News: Teledildonics Takes a Step
sign me up...

The king of alter egos is surprisingly humble guy - USATODAY.com

2007-02-05T07:04:00.000-05:00

The king of alter egos is surprisingly humble guy - USATODAY.com
Well, there isn't much new here, but he sure could use DFNG.

A Cross Between Youtube and Karaoke

2007-01-27T00:01:00.000-05:00

I think this is gonna be huge...

Domain Value

2007-01-26T23:26:00.000-05:00

Can you recover your old silicon valley domain?

Marshall Brain On Buying A $300 Electric Moped

2007-01-23T10:01:00.000-05:00

The $300 electric moped is already a reality at Pep Boys in the United States, according to this Marshall Brain piece:

Friday, September 02, 2005

Buying an electric scooter

I have a friend who filled up his gas tank yesterday. Because of the supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Katrina, he paid $3.20 a gallon and it ended up costing about $60. His reaction to that was, "I'm not going to take it anymore!"

What he decided to do is interesting. He decided to go to Pep Boys and buy an Electric Scooter. Since I have a truck, I helped him out by driving him down to pick it up.

This scooter is fascinating. It is made in China, and with a rebate it is currently priced at $299. I had a moped in college, and this scooter is exactly like the moped. It has a 750 watt (about 1 HP) motor that gives it a top speed on level ground of 30 MPH. It has a four 12-volt batteries that give it a range of about 25 miles. It has everything you would expect it to have from a moped standpoint -- head light and tail light, turn signals, horn, rear view mirrors, storage under the seat, etc.

It has two things that you do not get with a moped. First, it is completely silent. It's almost spooky how quiet it is. Going 30 MPH with zero noise is a new experience. It's a lot of fun to ride it. Second, it costs basically zero to operate. Perhaps a penny per mile. With gas at $3.20 a gallon, his car is costing 16 cents a mile just for the gas.

His wife sent him to the grocery store last night for a gallon of milk. The store is two miles away. He found that taking the scooter was quicker than driving because you can park the scooter right next to the store's door, walk in, walk out and you are done.

Here's the funny thing about this scooter. By the time you add in tires, oil changes, gasoline and per-mile depreciation on the car, the average car costs about 30 cents a mile to operate. That means that if he uses this scooter for 1,000 miles, the scooter is free.

Obviously he won't be riding a scooter like this in the winter when it is 20 degrees F outside. He won't be riding it in the rain. He won't use it for any journey longer than about 15 miles round trip. But his office is only 6 miles away so he can ride the scooter to work on nice days. He can use it to go to the store and so on. Let's say it takes him a year to put 2,000 miles on the scooter. And let's say that at the end of the year he throws the scooter away, so he has zero maintenance costs. He has saved 100 gallons of gasoline and he has put $280 in his pocket compared to the cost of driving his car (2,000 miles would cost $600 in the car, while the scooter cost $299 and he spent $20 on electricity for it).

There are 235 million cars in America -- about 1 for every adult. If 235 million people bought a scooter and used it 2,000 miles per year, it would save the nation about 1.25 million barrels of oil per day. That is nearly equivalent to all the oil pumped out of the Gulf of Mexico every day. And the nation would save $280 * 235,000,000 = $65 billion.

Not quite the scooter I have in mind, but I'll take it.

RU Sirius interviews Joe Quirk

2007-01-22T18:02:00.000-05:00

This is REALLY fun! Except they have not a clue regarding Evolutionary Enlightenment, just don't get that there is a science of consciousness.

God knows they seem to have done enough drugs. Maybe I'm missing something here.

Let's see, they FEAR a unitive consciousness, where the individual ego goes to die. Oh, ok, I get it.

Thank you.

Wikipedia - The Singularity

2007-01-22T18:01:00.001-05:00

This is fun!

2007-01-17T13:57:00.000-05:00

Well, I'd certainly like to be a voice of reason to this place. So, here goes:

Check it out...

dwc

Now If We Can Only Get Him To Do An EScooter Followup Ad

2007-01-13T00:24:00.000-05:00

GM Introduces Plug-In Electric Car

2007-01-08T09:49:00.000-05:00

Of course this is promising, but I still hold that we'll see the EScooter gain mass acceptance before the ECar.

By Sholnn Freeman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 8, 2007; A07
DETROIT, Jan. 7 -- General Motors Chairman G. Richard Wagoner Jr. on Sunday unveiled an innovative prototype, the Chevrolet Volt -- a plug-in vehicle that derives its power primarily from electricity rather than gasoline -- as the world's automakers take on global warming and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Wagoner's announcement underscores the depth of GM's previous miscalculation on alternative vehicles and the degree to which the U.S. automotive landscape is changing. In 1990, GM introduced the concept of an all-electric car, the EV1. The vehicle made it to U.S. consumers but didn't survive through the decade.
GM hasn't given a date when consumers can buy the Volt because the advanced lithium-ion batteries needed to power the vehicle -- similar to technology used in cellphones -- are still years from widespread use in automobiles.
Still, Wagoner and other GM executives have pledged to give the electric-car technology high priority within the company's massive product development operation.
"In the end, this is all going to be about delivering on these products," Wagoner said.
The world's auto executives meeting here at the Detroit auto show say that any big push into alternative vehicles will have to come from the automakers themselves. The executives said it isn't clear yet what role Washington will play under the new Democratic-controlled Congress. Some Democrats have proposed higher federal fuel economy standards. Wagoner reacted strongly to calls from Washington lawmakers for government-mandated increases to as high as 40 miles per gallon from the current level of 27.5 mpg for passenger cars, with a lower level for trucks.
"That's simply impossible," he said.
Wagoner, and other executives, said the industry is doing its part to confront the nation's energy problems through bigger investments in advanced technology.
Analysts in Detroit say any moves in Washington could come to a standstill, given the auto industry's unified lobbying position against major increases in fuel efficiency.
"The new Democratic Congress does not weaken the lobbying ability of U.S. automakers," said Sean McAlinden, an economist with the Center for Automotive Studies in Ann Arbor, Mich. "With new plants in Mississippi and Texas, they gain a couple of new senators. With the push for ethanol, you gain a couple of ag-state senators, in places like Iowa and Nebraska."
GM put its electric-car plans back on track after being stung by the rising gas prices after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Higher gas prices ended the boom in sales of large SUVs, which have supported the Detroit automakers. They've also watched from the sidelines as the Prius gas-electric hybrid has brought a windfall of positive attention for the Toyota brand.
"The domestic industry spends hundreds of millions to cultivate image," said Harley Shaiken, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "What they've been slow to realize is that fuel efficiency is increasingly sexy to many Americans. Even if you don't buy a Prius, you have the sense that Toyota is with the program."
GM killed off its previous electric vehicle after corporate officials balked at more than $300 million for further development. At the time, GM nearly had the alternative-car market to itself. GM has played catch-up to Japanese rivals Toyota and Honda, which seized the advantage, turning their electric-car know-how into today's hybrid cars.
GM's Volt would use its battery pack and electric motor as the primary source of power. The small three-cylinder engine, serving as a generator, kicks in to recharge the battery when power starts to fade. As envisioned, the Volt would have a top speed of 100 miles per hour. It would have an all-electric range of 40 miles, more than what many Americans typically drive in a day, making it possible for some people to commute to and from work without using a drop of gasoline.
Though the battery technology is still early in development, GM officials say they are pushing ahead. "We are taking a calculated gamble on this," said Robert A. Lutz, GM's vice chairman of global product development. "We are making the bet that the batteries will be available."

A Ten Point Manifesto For Electric Scooters

2006-12-28T02:27:00.002-05:00

It's a simple idea.

What I want to see is a well designed, electric, scooter that:

1. Can support 300 pounds traveling weight
2. Has a comfortable seat you can easily fold or remove
3. You can take on an elevator, escalator, and is light enough to carry up stairs
4. You can tuck in a cubicle to recharge, or similar work/school place
5. Goes at least 30 miles on a charge
6. Has a speed of 30 miles per hour, or better
7. Takes 30 minutes to recharge
8. Has a daily operating cost of 30 cents a day, at most
9. Has handlebars and seat that will fold up so as you can roll it down the sidewalk behind you like a traveling suitcase when not riding it
10. Costs no more than $300.00

Is this do-able?

Of course it is, most of the above elements are already in place, and already on the market, with the exception of speed, range, battery power and price.

The Electric Car is Dead, Long Live The Electric Car

2006-07-20T11:08:00.000-04:00

I haven't seen the whodunnit, 'who killed the electric car?' or Al Gore's flick, perhaps I will.

Just one thing, I believe the obituary is premature and I'm going to prove it by posting evidence of that in this blog

Gmail - Fwd: "Who Killed the Electric Car" NEWS June 2006

2006-06-16T05:34:00.000-04:00

N E W S June 2006

Greetings!

The countdown begins . With less then two weeks before our film opens in New York and Los Angeles (and then across the US in July and August), everything depends on our opening weekends. Feel free to forward this email to get the word out . Anything you can do to get people to theaters will be invaluable. Thank you!

Here's what's included in this newsletter:

1) U.S. and Canada National Release Dates
2) Invitation to Premiere Party in Los Angeles (June 24th!)
3) Press, Reviews, Videos

It's been incredible journey these past two months. After our sneak preview at Sundance and big efforts by our team, we mastered a beautiful 35mm print just in time for the San Francisco Film Festival. Our San Francisco audience included family and old friends, EVers and local celebrities like Larry Ellison. The Tribeca Film Festival in New York continued the roll and the reunions. Battery pioneers Stan and Iris Ovshinsky joined our Q&A at Lincoln Center cinemas. Next up was Telluride for a raucous screening at Mountain Film where we won an Audience Award and a "Truth is Power" audience award. Next up was Seattle and Atlanta for their gala festivals. At a private screening in New York City Michael Moore introduced us to invited guest . He said "Who Killed" was this summer's 1-2 punch with Inconvenient Truth and said democracies depend on an an informed public. (And of course documentaries depend on cameos from GM's ex-CEO Roger Smith). We also met Al Gore at his premiere in Los Angeles who said he loved our film and that it made a perfect double bill. Our trailer now runs in front of most screenings of Inconvenient Truth .

The film's success now depends on you . Buzz to your friends, calls to theaters in your home town requesting a print (if it isn't screening near you) and boxoffices are the results that make the difference in getting the word out . Anything you can do to buy tickets early and get friends to the theater on opening days is so appreciated . THANK YOU!

1) U.S. and Canada National Release Dates (Hurrah!)
JUNE 28th (OPENING WEEKEND)
ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD 15 HOLLYWOOD,CA 6/28/2006
ONTARIO MILLS 30 ONTARIO, CA 6/28/2006
NUWILSHIRE TWIN THEATRE SANTA MONICA CA 6/28/2006
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER 6 NEW YORK NY 6/28/2006
EDW SO COAST VILLAGE 3 COSTA MESA CA 6/30/2006
TOWN CENTER 5 ENCINO CA 6/30/2006
LAEMMLE'S PLAYHOUSE 7 PASADENA CA 6/30/2006
EARLY JULY
SHATTUCK 8 BERKELEY CA 7/7/2006
SEQUOIA TWIN MILL VALLEY CA 7/7/2006
AQUARIUS TWIN PALO ALTO CA 7/7/2006
CENTURY FIVE PLEASANT HILL CA 7/7/2006
EMBARCADERO CENTER CIN. 5 SAN FRANCISCO CA 7/7/2006
EMPIRE THREE CINEMAS SAN FRANCISCO CA 7/7/2006
CINEARTS AT SANTANA ROW SAN JOSE CA 7/7/2006
LOEWS PIPERS ALLEY 4 CHICAGO IL 7/7/2006
CINEARTS 6 EVANSTON IL 7/7/2006
RENAISSANCE PLACE CINEMA HIGHLAND PARK IL 7/7/2006
KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA 9 CAMBRIDGE MA 7/7/2006
EMBASSY CINEMA 6 WALTHAM MA 7/7/2006
MAIN ART THEATRE 3 ROYAL OAK MI 7/7/2006
BURBANK 16 BURBANK CA 7/14/2006
AMC COVINA 30 COVINA CA 7/14/2006
CENTURY 20 HUNTINGTON BEACH CA 7/14/2006
AMC 30 AT THE BLOCK ORANGE CA 7/14/2006
CENTURY STADIUM 25 ORANGE CA 7/14/2006
CINEMAS PALME D'OR PALM DESERT CA 7/14/2006
THE AVENUES 13 ROLLING HILLS ESTATES CA 7/14/2006
HILLCREST CINEMA FIVE SAN DIEGO CA 7/14/2006
PLAZA DE ORO TWIN SANTA BARBARA CA 7/14/2006
ROLLING HILLS 20 TORRANCE CA 7/14/2006
CENTURY DOWNTOWN 10 VENTURA CA 7/14/2006
MAYAN THREE DENVER CO 7/14/2006
LAGOON THEATRE 5 MINNEAPOLIS MN 7/14/2006
PORT CHESTER 14 PORT CHESTER NY 7/14/2006
LOEWS PALISADES CENTER 21 WEST NYACK NY 7/14/2006
LOEWS ROOSEVELT RACEWAY 10 WESTBURY NY 7/14/2006
THE MAGNOLIA THEATRE DALLAS TX 7/14/2006
RIVER OAKS THEATRE 3 HOUSTON TX 7/14/2006
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER & CAFE PLANO TX 7/14/2006
METRO TEN CINEMAS SEATTLE WA 7/14/2006
UPTOWN THREE CINEMAS SEATTLE WA 7/14/2006

LATE JULY
CROSSROADS 6 CINEMAS BOULDER CO 7/21/2006
E-STREET CINEMA WASHINGTON DC 7/21/2006
LOEWS ESQUIRE 6 CHICAGO IL 7/21/2006
RIVER EAST 21 CHICAGO IL 7/21/2006
YORKTOWN CINEMA 18 LOMBARD IL 7/21/2006
STREETS OF WOODFIELD 20 SCHAUMBURG IL 7/21/2006
AMC CANTERA 30 WARRENVILLE IL 7/21/2006
LOEWS LIBERTY TREE MALL 20 DANVERS MA 7/21/2006
FRAMINGHAM 14 FRAMINGHAM MA 7/21/2006
BETHESDA ROW CINEMA BETHESDA MD 7/21/2006
RITZ SIXTEEN VOORHEES NJ 7/21/2006
FOX 10 THEATRE PORTLAND OR 7/21/2006
RITZ AT THE BOURSE 5 PHILADELPHIA PA 7/21/2006
SHIRLINGTON 7 THEATRES ARLINGTON VA 7/21/2006
ORIENTAL 3 MILWAUKEE WI 7/21/2006
TOWER ANGELIKA FILM CTR. 3 SACRAMENTO CA 7/28/2006
SHADOWOOD SQUARE 16 BOCA RATON FL 7/28/2006
SOUTH BEACH 18 MIAMI BEACH FL 7/28/2006
UA TARA CINEMA 4 ATLANTA GA 7/28/2006
AMC STUDIO 30 OLATHE KS 7/28/2006
NICKELODEON 5 NORTH FALMOUTH MA 7/28/2006
STAR GREAT LAKES X-ING 25 AUBURN HILLS MI 7/28/2006
AMC LAUREL PARK PLACE 10 LIVONIA MI 7/28/2006
AMC FORUM 30 STERLING HEIGHTS MI 7/28/2006
TIVOLI THEATRE 3 ST LOUIS MO 7/28/2006
CENTURY 14 ALBUQUERQUE NM 7/28/2006
VILLAGE SQUARE 18 LAS VEGAS NV 7/28/2006
GREEN HILLS COMMONS 16 NASHVILLE TN 7/28/2006
ARBOR CINEMAS @ GREAT HILLS AUSTIN TX 7/28/2006
UA HULEN MALL TEN FT WORTH TX 7/28/2006
REDMOND THEATRE 8 REDMOND WA 7/28/2006

EARLY AUGUST
DIMOND CENTER 9 ANCHORAGE AK 8/4/2006
AMC DESERT RIDGE 18 PHOENIX AZ 8/4/2006
CENTURY ELCON 20 TUCSON AZ 8/4/2006
WESTMINSTER PROMENADE 24 WESTMINSTER CO 8/4/2006
BARRINGTON SQUARE SIX HOFFMAN ESTATES IL 8/4/2006
KEYSTONE ART CINEMA INDIANAPOLIS IN 8/4/2006
CANAL PLACE CINEMA 4 NEW ORLEANS LA 8/4/2006
RIO 14 THEATRE GAITHERSBURG MD 8/4/2006
BALLANTYNE VILLAGE THEATRE CHARLOTTE NC 8/4/2006
CAMEO ART HOUSE THEATRE FAYETTEVILLE NC 8/4/2006
RIVERSIDE 12 RENO NV 8/4/2006
AMC QUAIL SPRINGS 24 OKLAHOMA CITY OK 8/4/2006
REGAL DOWNTOWN WEST EIGHT KNOXVILLE TN 8/4/2006
AMC STONEBRIAR 24 FRISCO TX 8/4/2006
AMC GRAPEVINE MILLS 30 GRAPEVINE TX 8/4/2006
AMC STUDIO 30 HOUSTON TX 8/4/2006
FIESTA 16 SAN ANTONIO TX 8/4/2006
AMC FIRST COLONY 24 SUGARLAND TX 8/4/2006
WESTHAMPTON THEATRE 2 RICHMOND VA 8/4/2006
SEHOME THREE CINEMAS BELLINGHAM WA 8/4/2006
CITY CENTER CINEMA 12 VANCOUVER WA 8/4/2006
BONITA SPRINGS 12 BONITA SPRINGS FL 8/11/2006
BELL TOWER 20 FT MYERS FL 8/11/2006
MIRACLE FIVE TALLAHASSEE FL 8/11/2006
WINTER PARK VILLAGE 20 WINTER PARK FL 8/11/2006
AMC MANSELL CROSSING 14 ALPHARETTA GA 8/11/2006
UA SIEGEN VILLAGE TEN BATON ROUGE LA 8/11/2006
AMC OAKVIEW 24 OMAHA NE 8/11/2006
AMC HAMILTON 24 HAMILTON NJ 8/11/2006
AMC SOUTHROADS 20 TULSA OK 8/11/2006
PILOT BUTTE 6 PLEX BEND OR 8/11/2006
AMC NESHAMINY BENSALEM PA 8/11/2006
RIVER PARK SQUARE 20 SPOKANE WA 8/11/2006
LATE AUGUST
DELRAY 18 CINEMA DELRAY BEACH FL 8/18/2006
GAINESVILLE 14 GAINESVILLE FL 8/18/2006
AMC REGENCY SQUARE 24 JACKSONVILLE FL 8/18/2006
BEACH BLVD CINEMA 12 JACKSONVILLE FL 8/18/2006
JUPITER MALL 18 JUPITER FL 8/18/2006
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2) Your Invitation to our LA Film Festival Premiere and "Green Day" Party in Los Angeles

June 24, 2006

THE LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF

WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?

Opens June 28th in LA and NY (All major US markets to follow)

WHAT:
The Red-Carpet Premiere of WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF): Starring Tom Hanks, Phyllis Diller, Mel Gibson, Ed Begley Jr., Peter Horton, Alexandra Paul and directed by Chris Paine, narrated by Martin Sheen and produced by Jessie Deeter with Executive Producers Dean Devlin, Tavin Marin Titus and Richard D. Titus

http://ElectricEntertainment.com/GreenFair
Immediately following the screening the filmmakers will host �Green Day " in the parking lot adjacent to the theater. The unique event will feature �green� vendors and informational booths from entities including hybrid car companies, environmental organizations, The Environmental Media Association, Energy CS, Plug-In-America, Left Coast Conversions, Rainforest Action Network, Whole Foods, and many more. The purpose of the event is to educate people about the environment and what they can do to help conserve energy, help clean the air, as well as convert their automobiles into hybrid or full electric vehicles!
WHEN: Screening: Saturday, June 24th at 12:45pm (Patrons must purchase tickets through the LAFF. Green Day: immediately following the premiere
WHERE: Screening: Landmark Regent Theater: 1045 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Green Day: Parking Lot adjacent to Landmark Regent Theater
WHO: Chris Paine, Director; Dean Devlin (Independence Day), Peter Horton, Alexandra Paul, and many more.
TICKETS: http://www.lafilmfest.com/. And sold out or not, Green Day is Free (and open to the public) , right after the film .

3) Press, Video, Director Blog and Links on the film....

If you are interested in following press, the best thing to do is to create a "Google Alert" for "Who Killed the Electric Car". We are now getting about 5 new listings a day. Google will then send you daily links for the film. Here are a few recent ones (including some links to video):

The plot to kill the green machine
Independent - London,England,UK
... Three years later he has finished his film, a startling documentary entitled Who Killed the Electric Car?, which manages to turn received wisdom about the EV ...

"Who Killed the Electric Car?"
Now - USA
This week, NOW talks to director Chris Paine about his upcoming documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" The film looks at the hopeful birth and untimely ... (30 Min TV piece)

Chris Paine - Writer-Director of WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
iFMagazine - USA
Director�s Blog: RANTINGS FROM WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? FILMMAKER CHRIS PAINE � CHAPTER 1 - DENIAL. In three weeks [June ...

Al Gore and the X-Men: This Summer's Most Lovable Mutants
The Simon - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... For more environmentally friendly infotainment, look for the far superior Who Killed the Electric Car? coming later this summer. ...

Middle-of-the-Road
New York Magazine - NY, USA
... pro-car agenda, a powerful duo is emerging, in the form of Al Gore�s An Inconvenient Truth and Chris Paine�s anti�GM jeremiad, Who Killed the Electric Car ...

Hollywood's going green
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... Al Gore's PowerPoint presentation "An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning," opening Friday, and director Chris Paine's "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (July 7 ...

YouTube - Who Killed the Electric Car?
This is a mu This is the first trailer for "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
(originally titled EV Confidential) to be released by Sony Classics in June-July ...

Cruise Crawls to 'Mission' Finish
FOX News - USA
... of my favorite films. Devlin has just produced a terrific documentary called �Who Killed the Electric Car?

That's all the latest.
Thanks again for all your support!

CHRIS PAINE
Director

www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com