Can you improve the bicycle?
DEC 16, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023929
NYTimes.com : It is not easy to reinvent the wheel, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving it their best shot.The Senseable City Laboratory at MIT has designed a wheel called the Copenhagen Wheel that captures the kinetic energy released when a rider brakes and saves it for when the rider needs a boost.The Copenhagen Wheel was unveiled yesterday at the COP15 United Nations Climate Conference .
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