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Latest Posts
- LI Wind Energy Workshop
KidWind has a free LI Wind Energy Workshop on Dec. 6 from 9-3pm at Ørsted’s Setauket facility. Can you share with your teachers? kidwind.org/event/long-island-wind-energy-training/
- Worlds of Physics Lecture
On Friday, November 14 at 7.30 pm, we have a Worlds of Physics lecture by Distinguished Professor Laszlo Mihaly entitled “The cost of energy: Do electric vehicles save on the fuel cost?”
The venue is the Earth and Space Sciences Building, ESS 001. See below for an abstract and a short bio.
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The Cost of Energy: Do Electric Vehicles Save on the Fuel Costs?
Distinguished Professor Laszlo Mihaly
We will review the advent of hybrid cars and EVs, with special attention to the physics
principles behind the emerging new technologies, including special areas from atomic
physics, condensed matter physics and nuclear physics. We cover topics from
magnetism, semiconductors and superconductivity. We discuss why rare earth elements
are important, and why are they rare. We will answer the question posed in the title, and
the answer will be “It depends”…. We discuss technologies and policies that influence
the answer.
Distinguished Professor Laszlo Mihaly received his PhD in 1977 at the Eotvos Lorand
University in Budapest. In addition to being a staff member at the Central Research
Institute (Budapest), he held positions at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble,
Universite Paris Sud in Orsay, and at UCLA. He joined the Department of Physics and
Astronomy at Stony Brook in 1989. He is an experimental condensed matter physicist,
with research interests. - Leave Replacement – Plainview
Plainview Old Bethpage has a 9 day leave in physics 9/2-9/12.
If interested please contact Dame Forbes, Sci Director at 516-434-3191, dforbes@pobschools.org.