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Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

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His team at BIG have designed many high-profile projects: from 2 World Trade Center in New York and Lego House in Denmark, to Google’s Mountain View and London headquarters. These three street types weave together to form an organic grid pattern to help accelerate the testing of autonomy.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru. Different forms of gated communities were also found to be on the rise globally. Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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Research Suggests Renewables Could Generate 40% of Global Power by 2050

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More specifically, Germany has more than doubled its share of renewable energy since 2000. The German government has been supportive in strengthening renewable energy by regulating the payment for the power fed into the grid through the Renewable Energy Sources Act (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, EEG), as well as other programs.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid. Its a centralised solution.

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80x30: U.S. Clean Energy Standard Accelerates Transition to Renewables

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To reach the 80x30 goal, the US power grid would need to add between 60 and 80 GW of new clean power every year (double the record 35 GW of renewables added in 2020). Many have set renewable portfolio standards (RPSs), mandating that renewables make up a certain part of the power grid. It may seem daunting.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. Notice in [link] that GM carefully avoids claiming to reduce CO2 by shifting to the grid, but leads people off the track by focusing on smog related issues. GM knows better and guards against making fraudulent claims.

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