Green Car Congress
MAY 7, 2009
The results weaken the applicability of the simplest version of the Iron Hypothesis as a geo-engineering approach to climate change. To explain this counterintuitive “High Biomass, Low Export” result the researchers considered a number of ideas. Tags: Climate Change Geoengineering. —Jim Bishop.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
While interest in this idea seems likely to grow as EVs proliferate, the prospect of electric car owners becoming power entrepreneurs appears more distant. Back in 2002, at the end of their experiment, the engineers at AC Propulsion concluded that what V2G really needed was a powerful institutional champion.
Cars That Think
MARCH 14, 2023
Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year.
Plug in America
DECEMBER 17, 2020
My ex and I got solar at home on his birthday in 2002, then our first EV, the RAV4, a couple months later, on the winter solstice. Finally, I was doing something that could really make a dent in climate change. Won’t ever forget the feeling, from my head to my toes, of driving without a tailpipe. Well, almost none.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Munger, the 85-year-old vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is a curmudgeon who frowns on most investment ideas. "When I call Charlie with an idea," Buffett tells me, "and he says, That is really a dumb idea, that means we should put 100% of our net worth into it. "Its a completely different business model."
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
When most of America will be reluctant to buy a GM car because the company might go bankrupt how the hell did those in charge think bailing them out was a good idea? I had surmised this in my 2002 car design thesis [link] even before anyone was talking about plug in series hybrids. This is true, irrespective of the merits of the Volt.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2009
But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. But in the current economic climate their support has dropped a notch. Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of PPIC.
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