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sfgate.com - 5/14/2009
United States: PG&E expands solar power plans
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San Francisco Chronicle: California's big plans for solar power keep getting bigger. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and a young Oakland company on Wednesday signed what may be the world's largest solar deal, one that will create a string of seven solar power plants generating enough electricity ...
Drought, politics trouble farmers in California
npr.org - 5/11/2009
Drought, politics trouble farmers in California
— npr.org — National Public Radio: California is in its third year of drought, and many farmers in the state's... crop-rich Central Valley are looking at dusty fields, or worse, are cutting down their orchards before the trees die. Hardest hit is Westlands, the ... (more) Drought, politics trouble farmers in California

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news.prnewswire.com - 5/11/2009
Wal-Mart to Nearly Double Solar Energy Use in California
— news.prnewswire.com — Expansion expected to generate energy equal to powering more than 1300 homes annually LOS ANGELES , April... 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT ), as part of its commitment to accelerate and broaden its sustainability ... (more) Wal-Mart to Nearly Double Solar Energy Use in California

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reuters.com - 5/19/2009
Obama Drafts California to Raise Fuel Efficiency | Green Business
— reuters.com — By Environment News Service - Environment News Service President Barack Obama is proposing on Tuesday the highest... auto fuel efficiency standards ever attempted in the United States. Burning less fuel also will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ... (more) Obama Drafts California to Raise Fuel Efficiency | Green ...

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Newswatch: Apples's WDC Will Have 1,000 Engineers On Hand -Reuters
Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media — ... Review: Flaws in Web's much-touted WolframAlpha -AP Unlike search engines that deliver links that match keywords in your query, WolframAlpha is more of a black box. If you have it perform a calculation, it gives you an answer, along with a small link for "source information." Open that and you'll generally be told the data was "curated" - found and verified - by the company behind WolframAlpha. In other words, "trust us." PG&E; expands solar power plans -SFGate California law requires the state's ...

Is the Dark Cloud Over Solar Energy Beginning to Break?
R-Squared Energy Blog — ... “PG&E looked hard at what we’d done,” Woolard told The San Francisco Chronicle. “They looked at the results from our plant in Israel, and that built a lot of confidence that we were meeting milestones and delivering.” ...

Is the Dark Cloud Over Solar Energy Beginning to Break?
The Energy Collective — ... “PG&E looked hard at what we’d done,” Woolard told The San Francisco Chronicle. “They looked at the results from our plant in Israel, and that built a lot of confidence that we were meeting milestones and delivering.” ...

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