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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years.

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The Greenius Goes Into Overdrive

Creative Greenius

And it needs to be THE priority – not the multimillion-dollar glory mansions, not the ego cars, not the toys, the clothes or the life style. Free, Clean, Renewable Electricity From The Wind: Visiting PacWind with Dency & J.R. But I’ll keep my eye on wind energy too. had one installed on his Studio City home.

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

Sure, an electric car would be nice, but that would have been last Sunday, when the nearly 80 electric vehicles in a “CO2 Race&# combed the streets of Copenhagen. So were the electric Teslas, Nissans, Renaults, Betterplace vehicles, and Danish cars of the “International Mayor’s EV Parade,&# a couple days later.

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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? A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. For reasons political and economic, cars and trucks and busses remained tethered to petroleum. Pickens’ plan includes lots of wind-generated electricity, ostensibly to replace the natural gas he would divert to vehicles.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. only when by car dealers, not private parties. carbon sequestration (capture and storage, i.e.). and a third).

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

It was there because the cover story was “Among the Ancients, Giant Sequoias of the Sierra&# Another article headline that made the cover, “Is Al Gore Our Great Green Hope?&#. The USA got the leap on everyone else with solar, wind and other fossil free energy as well as electric cars and other alternative fuel vehicles.

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