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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). by Bill Cooke. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008). Many participants at the conference expect a 30% decline for the year overall.

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Restoring Hearing With Beams of Light

Cars That Think

The idea for a better way began back in 2005, when I started hearing about a new technique being pioneered in neuroscience called. We next trained the gerbils to respond to an auditory stimulus, teaching them to avoid a certain area when they heard a tone. How optogenetics works. optogenetics.

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The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant

Cars That Think

Saunders had lost his hearing in a car accident two years earlier, and Clark planned to implant a prototype device to restore at least some of Saunders’s hearing. He realized that a blade of grass with a stiff base and a flexible tip could wind through the shell, and that is how he was going to get the electrodes through the cochlea.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. and Chrysler. .’s

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations. “You guys own the cars.&# Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa.

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