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

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So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. 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. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers. Israel made news in April by field-testing an airborne antimissile laser called Iron Beam, a play on the name Iron Dome, the missile system it has used to down rockets fired from Gaza.

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