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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. MB of data.

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UNECE: claim that diesel on-road vehicles are the cause of increased lung cancer is misleading

Green Car Congress

based on 2005 emission totals, to be met by countries by or before 2020. An improved modal split, particularly from individual to public transport in personal mobility and from roads to rail in long term freight transport while improving environmental performance at micro level. By 2010, average annual reductions of PM 2.5

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]).

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Lead the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 for developing a vehicle that could navigate and drive through a desert course without human intervention. He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. Deffeyes, 2005 "The Coming Oil Crisis", by Colin Campbell "Crossing the Rubicon", by Michael C.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

But those of us who know better, also know that from 1976 to 2005 Californians’ electric use stayed flat while the rest of the United States electricity consumption per capita grew by 60%. That’s a phenomenal accomplishment considering how much our electronic footprint grew in that time period.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. The truth is, I’m unabashedly fascinated by and truly interested in the work they’re doing.

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