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Letter: An underwhelming feat of engineering

Published 16 January 2019

From Tim Stevenson,<br/>Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, UK

You report that a tyre recovering electrical energy could save 800 kilojoules a year (8 December 2018, p 19). You could have knocked me down with a motor car! That's kilowatt-hours, which is the energy in litres of petrol.

Issue no. 3213 published 19 January 2019

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