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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

Cars That Think

For a fee, people send money to friends and family, pay bills, and buy groceries using a mobile wallet app. magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. She applied for several grants, including a special American Express program for businesses owned by Black women. For her development of geeRemit, Inc.

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Optimistic EVs – the cure for range anxiety | Opinion

EV Central

But I will grant you this – when I discovered that I’d booked an EV for the Christmas break I did have a mild panic, along the lines of “but what if I actually have to GO somewhere”? (As This is one of the things that people who’ve never lived with an EV simply don’t believe; how rarely you’ll actually have to charge it.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Where Can I Buy One? 1 $100,000 Grant Moving in the Right Direction? Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010).

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. Are you kidding me? BRAD (laughing).

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

No party for Citis owners: You and me FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- When gas was topping $4 a gallon last summer, the urgency to find alternative sources of energy to power cars and trucks became clear to most Americans. Bell Labs licensed the technology to all comers.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. Later, with Mazor and Faggin he filed for and was granted a patent for a “memory system for a multi-chip digital computer.”) You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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