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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe. Nest Gets Googled.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. There is a really good new book out by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. E-mail Martin.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Lamps are going out (but only one resident.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. — jerryd 7. Next: a carbon tax.

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