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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

It took me 17 days to reach the United Arab Emirates, and my route went through fascinating places like the Kurdish region of Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Two trains a day connect Paris with the Catalan capital. Ideally, I would have liked to continue to Madrid on the same day, but there’s no late connection.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power. 12:47 PM joe said.

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