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blogs.wsj.com - 5 days ago
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Environmental Capital provides daily news and analysis of
the shifting energy and environmental landscape. The Wall Street...
Journal's Keith Johnson is the lead writer. Environmental Capital is led by Journal energy reporter Russell Gold, and includes ...
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energy.gov - 35 hours ago
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COLUMBUS, OHIO - At an event in Columbus,
Ohio this afternoon, Secretary Chu announced that the Department...
of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems that ...
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Secretary Chu Announces $620 Million for Smart Grid ...
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China's booming car sales, falling gas usage stump analysts
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cleanenergywonk.com - 7 days ago
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Energy Self-Reliant States [pdf] , a flawed study
on local Renewable Energy availability from the Institute for...
Local Self-Reliance (ISLR) found that 18 of the 50 states could not meet their electricity needs with local renewables. In ...
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“Heretic” Battles Straw Man
sustainx.com - 5 days ago
latimes.com - 4 days ago
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Dieter Helm Dieter Helm, an economist and professor
of energy policy at Oxford University, favors the carbon...
tax because it places the emphasis on carbon consumption--those who use the steel, for example--rather than carbon production--where the steel ...
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'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, ...
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green.autoblog.com - 3 days ago
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How fast can a battery-powered car travel the
entire 16,000+ mile length of the Pan-American highway? We...
don't really know but it looks like we're going to find out. The Racing Green Endurance team, hailing from Imperial College London , are putting together an all-electric version of the ...
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Racing Green Endurance to tackle Pan-American highway ...
technologyreview.com - 2 days ago
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully demonstrated
a prototype machine that uses the sun's energy to...
convert water and carbon dioxide into the molecular building blocks that make up transportation fuels. The " Sunshine to ...
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Demonstrating a CO2 Recycler
sciencedirect.com - 7 days ago
reuters.com - 7 days ago
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Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Norwegian electric
car maker Think Global is gearing up to launch...
its vehicles in the United States and has picked a site in Indiana for its U.S. manufacturing facility, a major investor in the company said on ...
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Norway electric carmaker to build in Indiana
examiner.com - 7 days ago
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PHEV image from the U.S. Department of EnergyElectric
Vehicles: Electricity can be used as a transportation fuel...
to power battery electric vehicles (EVs). EVs store electricity in an energy storage device, such as a battery. The electricity powers t...
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What are the types of green transportation vehicles
nytimes.com - 6 days ago
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LAST June in a fjord in southwestern Norway,
a 213-foot-tall wind turbine did something large wind turbines...
normally don’t do: it headed out to sea. Towed by tugboats, the newly built turbine, with three 139-foot rotor blades and a 2.3-megawatt ...
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Seeking Wind Energy, Some Consider the Sea
avt.inl.gov - 6 days ago
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Development of the PHEV Integrated Test Plan and
Evaluation Program, which is used to conduct accelerated onroad...
and baseline performance (dynamometer and test track) testing Testing is being conducted on nine PHEV models, with most of the PHEVs from ...
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Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity
gas2.org - 5 days ago
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[Editor's Note: Karen Pease has developed many personal
relationships with people inside and out of Aptera over...
the years. She's been able to get the best picture we've seen so far of the quirky EV manufacturer's troubles from her inside sources. In ...
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Aptera’s Troubles: Get the Full, Inside Story Here
autocar.co.uk - 6 days ago
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Latest News Rolls-Royce could have an electric Phantom
on the road in just 12 months, according to...
a company source. That would be well in time for the car to be one of the centrepieces of BMW’s sponsorship of the 2012 London Olympics. Electric Rolls ...
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Electric Rolls Phantom planned
forbes.com - 5 days ago
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SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - South Korea said
on Friday it had picked eight consortiums for a...
test-bed of a smart grid project to make electricity distribution more efficient, as it looks to save $10 billion in energy imports by 2030. Korea aims to ...
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S.Korea picks local consortiums for smart grid test
europe.theoildrum.com - 5 days ago
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When the Oil Exports article was published here
at TOD, profG was kind enough to disseminate it...
through out the blog-sphere, posting it at places such as SlashDot . I was very curious and went there to see the folks' comments. Most commentators ...
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How to Address Contrarian Arguments
epjb.edpsciences.org - 5 days ago
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Contents | PDF_file_(1 Mo) Eur. Phys. J. B
2 , 525-539 Stretched exponential distributions in nature and...
economy: "fat tails'' with characteristic scales J. Laherrère 1 - D. Sornette 2,3 1 107 rue Louis Blériot, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France 2 ...
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The European Physical Journal B (EPJ B)
latimes.com - 5 days ago
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Energy-hogging TVs face California ban New California standards
for TVs, which take effect Jan. 1, 2011, are...
similar to those imposed on refrigerators, air conditioners and dozens of other household appliances since the 1970s. The tightened standards ...
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usatoday.com - 5 days ago
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The hens' owner, Jennifer Rudin, wasn't sure at
first whether her city neighbor would appreciate the chickens'...
free-ranging, which has become routine for them since Portland approved backyard chicken farming earlier this year. But having seen how ...
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Chickens come home to roost in backyards around the USA
chicagotribune.com - 4 days ago
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Severed link in South America A man heads
for Colombia using one of two border footbridges blown...
up this week by the Venezuelan military. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been critical of a pact allowing the U.S. military use of Colombian bases. ( ...
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Outages dim Chavez popularity -
