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Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Investing in Offshore Wind Backbone

Green Car Congress

Energy investor Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Corporation are investing in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone transmission project. The 350-mile (563-km) long transmission backbone will provide approximately 6,000 MW of offshore wind capacity, enough power to serve 1.9 Source: Google. Click to enlarge.

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

No this is a job for the company I’ve long been a stockholder of – Google. Because Google is smart enough to not only see the opportunity and have the wherewithal to seize it, they also know what to do with it. The house above looks good to what I’m talking about. Communications. Citizen/community engagement.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. Wind-vortex generators: In 2016, 3M developed a technology to help wind turbines generate airflow more optimally to ensure they work better, in partnership with Smartblade.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

Followed Google Maps to hit Hosur road - and from then on the Maps was switched off. With the cruise control on, managed to have a lovely conversation with Karthik on Jared Diamond’s excellent book Guns, Germs and Steel. (In We switched on Google Maps and left for Ooty. But that is not the case in the cockpit.

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Ola S1 Pro Electric Scooter: Test Ride & Observations

Plug In India

By Atul Gopal & Kamlesh The PluginIndia team has booked an OLA S1 electric scooter and we were delighted to meet the OLA team and also go on a test ride. Video: Ola S1 Pro Electric Scooter: Test Ride Day | Opinions & Observations Atul's Observations Along with thousands of you, Kamlesh booked an Ola S1 many months ago.

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The Solangelist Learns To Install Solar & Loves It

Creative Greenius

Time after time Scott would would offer us the “by the book&# lesson and then add his personal experience lessons with working examples from his on-the-job history. I felt like what we got from Scott Carlson was the golden ticket class that only the luckiest students found themselves in. Who deserves that more than me?

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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