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Hyperbaric Centrifuge Technology Successfully Dewaters Coal Fines

Green Car Congress

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va., as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Filling car batteries overnight, or any other time when no longer limited by our current mind locking, tech blocking, bullshit 120 vac, crap system, and fed by high volt D.C.Or other better transmission systems will be a lark! is a Green Options Media Production. is a Green Options Media Production.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This time it’s Obama’s brainless comments in which, within the very same paragraph, he both proclaimed that GM was behind in high tech green technologies which he foolishly proclaims the road to commercial salvation, and then blasts the Volt as a project incapable of saving GM. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. railways replacing cars and trucks, weatherizing homes, etc.),

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

tech industry during the 1990s. Revenues, which have grown by about 45% annually during the past five years, reached $4 billion in 2008. He was paid about $265,000 in 2008, and he lives in a BYD-owned apartment complex with other engineers. But can this no-nonsense tech veteran come up with a plan to save Yahoo?

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

None of the new electric cars are planning to use old-tech lead acid batteries. Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. Galbraith joined The New York Times in June 2008 to write about renewable energy. If you charge with solar, is way less.

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