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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

Cars That Think

Eliza Strickland: Man-made climate change is already reshaping our planet, and carbon emissions aren’t coming down fast enough to stave off real disaster in the decades to come. It’s often called geoengineering in the popular press, but the preferred term is climate intervention. So that’s one class. Transcript.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

Cars That Think

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. There he developed tools to design logic with multiplexers, according to a 2009 oral history conducted by the Computer History Museum. IEEE is a fulcrum for that.”

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 17, 2009 11:38 am Link Goodbye GM. April 17, 2009 12:22 pm Link I don’t see how the Telsa Sedan would be an advantage. April 17, 2009 12:34 pm Link Perhaps they should turbo charge the Volt or Telsa to run more like this electric powered Datsun drag racer: [link] American’s love a hot rod. — Goodbye 2.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

3) TED 2009 (+2) Anti-Nuclear Effectively Means Pro-Fossil Fuel (+2) Consumption dwarfs population as main global warming threat (+2) If youve already signed up for TEC, you dont need to register again. Sokol told me that Mr. Wang seeks his ideas and criticism whenever they meet. I’ve never seen anything like it.

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