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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

Such perception is at odds with most projections; for example, the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change suggested in March that while some societies might be able to cope with a “two-degree world” through aggressive adaptive strategies, impacts could be “significant” even below 2 ºC. BBC: 15 December 2009. [

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

asked David Marcus, the head of the project at Facebook, whether the company would wait for Congress to consider appropriate regulation. Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. If the “Big Three auto manufacturers aren’t building alternative energy vehicles with the money they’re getting from Congress, then what are they doing with it?

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