Says Shay Agassi, the initiator of the "Better Place" project, for the establishment of a charging system for electric cars, in a panel that dealt with environmental quality at the Israel Business Conference
Perhaps this is one of the first times that a panel dealing with the quality of the environment attracts such a large audience that even the largest hall among the halls assigned to the Israel Business Conference routes, was unable to accommodate all those who wished to hear about the subject, perhaps because of one of the speakers, who became one of the six participants and the main star - Shay Agassi, who about two months ago together with Idan Ofer announced the "Better Place" project - within the framework of which a network of charging stations for electric vehicle batteries will be established.
As I recall, the idea is that anyone can refuel the vehicle in the parking lot at home or at work, and thus it will go for a drive with a full battery. Another problem Agassi referred to is the relatively short range of the car between charging and charging - 200 kilometers. The solution to this is an automatic system of replacing an empty battery with a full one in less time than it currently takes to refuel a car. According to him, one of the car manufacturers has already announced the production of a car in several models.
Agassi said that the idea had been simmering in him until he was in his previous position as vice president of the German SAP company, and got momentum after he spoke at a dinner for the Israeli participants in the Davos conference with Shimon Peres who was then the deputy prime minister. Peres arranged for him meetings with senior officials in the automobile industry as well as with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert who agreed to give the project the green light on the condition that Agassi would not be guaranteed any franchise, and that anyone who wanted to invest and enter the market could set up competing filling stations.
Agassi promised that all the funding for the project would come from foreign investors, based on a business plan that would guarantee profits for the investors, and not from the state, which should only maintain the tax differences that exist today between gasoline-powered vehicles and electric vehicles (in favor of electric or hybrid vehicles) for the next eight years.
He promised that the price of these cars will be attractive and will make many car owners replace their car with an electric car. In addition, in order to avoid a situation where it is not possible to drive by car due to the lack of charging stations, the proposal is to set up many charging points in parking lots at once, and a large number of exchange stations at gas stations.
According to him, the power plants of the electric company are much more efficient than a car, in which most of the fuel burned in it turns into heat, and likewise if all two million vehicles in Israel become electric, which he does not expect to happen at once, it will be necessary to increase the electricity production capacity by only six percent and even those can be obtain from renewable sources.
In response to criticism that his project would encourage people to use private vehicles rather than public transportation, Agassi said that he would be very happy if fewer people used vehicles and preferred public transportation. In response to a question from the audience that this is a venture whose sole purpose is to make money, Agassi answered: I and my children have enough money, I should leave them a planet to live on. Otherwise NASA's budget will have to be increased to allow us all to move to another planet.
The investor Maurice Kahan who invests in cleantech companies dealing with water purification, alternative energy and many technologies that have in common the protection of the environment. According to him, the situation is getting worse from year to year, and that the worst scenario for global warming is ten years earlier than planned (for example, the melting of the Greenland glacier and the opening of the northern passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean north of Canada and Alaska). "There is no doubt that human society contributes to warming, and the trend will worsen both due to the expected increase in the population to 9.4 billion within about two decades and due to the increase in the standard of living in India and China, which will equal the standard of living in the USA within ten years. Kahan, who supports the Tzalul association that fought to remove the fish cages from the Gulf of Eilat, and expressed his anger that the government is developing plans to discharge the sewage from the Kishon and Ramat Hovav (separately) through pipes to the sea, even though this is against the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea, to which Israel is a signatory, as well as the Shepdan that wants to burn the the sludge instead of turning it into fertilizer.
Yigal Almogi, Vice President of Applied Materials Global presented the company's activity in the field of solar energy, and improving the absorption of energy from the sun through nanotechnology.
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The Jewish tradition is that the Torah was passed down through the generations from Moses to the present day, but in the Book of Kings Chapter XNUMX it is written that the Torah was revealed in the days of Josiah and he did not know it before (how do we know that it even existed before?). This is of course an internal contradiction within the religion itself.
A- The barrel of the cow splits into three parts and one of them reaches the liver (Msachta Chulin, page XNUMX)
In the Hare and the Hare raise a living (Leviticus XNUMX:XNUMX).
Go to the following websites and admit your mistake
The rabbit and the rabbit are making a living?!?!?…come in here
http://www.arachim.org.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=1640&CategoryID=333&Page=4
The barrel of the cow splits into three parts and one of them goes to the liver ?!?!?...come in here
http://www.hidabroot.org/Site/ARDetile.asp?id=9602&Catogory=5&SubID=6774
Michael, you don't understand anything between your right and your left in regards to your proficiency in the Book of Kings... maybe you forgot but look at the sails because they are a little smarter than you!!!!
"The cow's barrel splits into three parts and one of them reaches the liver (Tsacht Chulin, page XNUMX)"... I wouldn't say that because it's a blatant lie by the "repentant genius Yaron Yadan"
Come in and see... http://www.hidabroot.org/Site/ARDetile.asp?id=9602&Catogory=5&SubID=6774
The rabbit and the hare raise a living (Leviticus XNUMX:XNUMX) Come and see...
http://www.arachim.org.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=1640&CategoryID=333&Page=4
In short, there really is an answer to everything, only you are overly stubborn
By the way, the idea of replacing an empty battery with a new one occurred to me years ago!
And if we take it another essential step, then a system must be built that will transport the empty battery from the car to the "filling" facility and charge a new battery automatically to the car.. This will require a flexible facility that can go up and down to match the height of the vehicle as well as to the sides so that time is not wasted on directing the vehicle to the exact location! Such a device can charge (literally) the vehicle even in seconds depending only on the mechanism of the system and its speed!
It will be possible to build such facilities in different sizes so that they will also fit the house (which means another four batteries) and larger ones for public places! I guess this is what the successful Shi Agassi meant, and if not... he should check the plans again! In any case, I wish him success in the project and follow the energetic and exciting way in which he pushes the business very wisely!
Sign up for 2012!! This is the hot date for a serious change that will apply in the world according to some experts!
What is beautiful about this date is its short validity...so why did they choose it? Because this is probably what the numbers show and you can argue with numbers!
Prepare a survival kit and don't forget to put in the coffee kit from the reserve (for those who are still doing it)!
What's good about these dates is that they release existential tension because if everything is going to go wrong anyway...then why worry?
You don't have to go far to see that the Torah and the religion are full of his claims that turned out to be wrong and were (according to Adam) far beyond any reasonable person.
Here is a partial list:
1. A pie equals three (XNUMX Kings chapter XNUMX verse XNUMX)
2. The Jewish tradition is that the Torah was passed down through the generations from Moses to the present day, but in the book of Kings XNUMX chapter XNUMX it is written that the Torah was revealed in the days of Josiah and he did not know it before (how do we know that it even existed before?). This is of course an internal contradiction within the religion itself.
3. The barrel of the cow splits into three parts and one of them reaches the liver (Msachta Chulin, page XNUMX)
4. The rabbit and the hare raise a living (Leviticus XNUMX:XNUMX).
5. Sages thought that life could be created from inanimate matter
Conclusion (again, according to Adam) - those who still believe in the Torah are not sane.
For Adam, I have a document distributed about 5 years ago by Rabbi Daniel Segal, according to which in 2009 "three quarters of the United States will be covered with water and 200 million Americans will return their souls to the Creator (or Jesus)... there is much more there
"Prophecies" from that messenger of God.
I read a lot on the Hidavrot website, and I also listened to quite a few of Zamir Cohen's lectures, and I must say that the man excels at combining lies, half-truths (for example, he brings
"As a fact" the ancient Greeks thought the earth was flat
While a certain rabbi during the Mishna period claimed that she was a ball. He
They bring up the fact that the Greek sages, in the time of Plato that preceded
About 500 years before the Sages of the Mishnah discovered this fact and also calculated the circumference of the earth with amazing accuracy and probably the Sages of the Mishnah
followed them.
By the way, if you are a believer and you have a "relationship" with him, ask him
In my name let the poor and beaten people of Israel rest for a century,
Two hundred years, which will be destroyed and recovered from its cuts, and in the meantime it will take
Another nation as a "chosen nation" will abuse it with pogroms, exterminations,
Anti-Semitism and all kinds of other decrees...
Send him your regards too...
Leshi, it's really fun for you that you have so much money for you and your child and your grandchildren and for several more generations
But don't forget that if the cars are so cheap everyone will want them and then there will be more traffic jams and more roads will have to be paved and because there are many cheap cars there will be a need to generate electricity where will it come from you have to burn something I don't think
It's not bad, you'll already find something to spend the money on
If I were you, I would make sure to promote education, establish a special fund for scholarships, which those students will have to return to the community with money afterwards, and the same money will continue to finance further education
But what can be done, you are not me and I am not you, therefore your goal is to make more money, this is a special germ that needs more and more for health
In retrospect?..I wouldn't say so because these Sage articles have been with us since they were said and written and there are other prophecies that we are waiting to see in their full fulfillment
(I recommend that you see on the Hidvor website there is a lecture called "Prophecies of the Last Days".. I'm pretty sure you'll be surprised. Here's the link..
http://www.hidabroot.org/Site/ProDetile.asp?id=9449&CategoryID=9&subID=9141&StrCategory=נבואות%20אחרית%20הימים)
Regarding the age of the world, you are right about some things, I will explain..
Truly in creation without any supreme factor the development time it will take for the world to reach the state it is in today is as what you mentioned howie means billions of years,
But one thing is clear and that is that the same supreme power has no problem creating the entire creation in an instant and bringing about changes that would naturally take billions of years... these things are written in several places in the Sages... for example:
A- There is a Midrash in which it is written that the first Adam was created at the age of twenty with all his organs and without any evolutionary development whatsoever... He and the nature around him were created perfectly
In the Torah it is written that in the beginning there was one dry land as it is written "and you will see the dry land".. The Zohar reveals to us and says:
"One country literally took out the water and from it seven countries were formed" (Reminds you of something, right? The continental drift) If I ask any scientist how long do you think it will take for such a process to happen, he will answer without hesitation that a few million years, but the Zohar reveals that it is not a process of millions But a short period..
For a person - everything can be discovered in retrospect. This is not such great wisdom. And apart from that another minor detail, the world has existed for 4.5 billion years and the universe about 13 billion.
I agree with you that this ridiculous excuse is really amusing, but you have to "understand" them because this is the way of Christianity throwing promises into the air that do not stand up to the test of reality, for example it is promised by the prophet that Israel will never return to Jerusalem and here we are according to the words of the Gemara
"Rabbi Abba said: There is no end to your exile from what is said: 'And you, Israel, your branches will give and your fruit you will bear to the people of Israel, for they are near to come.'" And Rashi's interpretation: "'Awesome from this' - when the Land of Israel gives fruit with a good eye, then the end will come and you will not have a more than a happy end".
There are other promises throughout our scriptures. Another one is regarding the building of the temple that the Muslims built in the Holy of Holies and this is how it is written in the chapters of Derbi Eliezer to:
"Rabbi Ishmael says, fifteen things the sons of Ishmael will do in the land at the end of days and these are:
They will measure the land with ropes, and they will make a cemetery for the Ashpot sheep deposit....they will build a building in the temple and two brothers will stand over them as presidents at the end." (Derbi Eliezer Chapters, L)
Now one thing remains to be fulfilled and it is as you can see in the scripture "and two brothers will stand over them as presidents at the end"
I brought these few wonderful prophecies to say that what is written in our sources has happened and what we are promised will happen again because Hazal did not believe things from their hearts like the Christians!!
It is interesting to note that Christianity also claimed that the world was going to end shortly after the death of Jesus. The apostle Paul did not set an exact date, but this was the example he published.
The world did not come to an end, but Christianity remained.
Other sects also published similar dates, and when they did not meet them, they started to find interesting explanations that actually ran the believers in those sects. One of the most amusing explanations in my opinion was: "The end of the world really came on that date. We were simply reborn, and the world will be better than now."
In short, it is not prophecies of wrath that will disprove or prove the Torah, and in any case Rabbi Katina is only one commentator. If his pledge doesn't work out, he'll just be tossed aside in 233 years.
Continue a pleasant existence for all of us.
Another 233 years and we'll see if it's our compromise or your stupidity
To Adam... a ridiculous question. After all, it is clear that things depend on your compromise. And not in his Torah.
I advise you not to worry too much going forward, because according to the Hebrews there is not much time left until the end of the world
It is written in the Gemara in the Sanhedrin (Page 6000, page XNUMX): "Rab Katina said: Shit alfi shani O Alma and Had Harob"...that is, the world according to existence will only exist for XNUMX years, which means that it is almost possible to start counting backwards, and in about two hundred and thirty-three years it will be destroyed The world will return to chaos... and then eternal life... (A question for thought, how can a person commit to such a thing?!? Knowing that if this does not happen, his entire Torah will be thrown away because the sixth millennium will pass and nothing will happen..)