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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

Cars That Think

Despite these gains, though, traditional magnetic-confinement fusion is still years away from fulfilling nuclear fusion’s promise of generating abundant and carbon-free electricity. University of Washington. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. Seattle-based. To date, the company has raised more than US $40 million.

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car Adds 5,000 Hybrids to Nationwide Fleet

Green Car Congress

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding approximately 5,000 additional gas/electric hybrids to its nationwide fleet and designating nearly 80 rental locations across the country as “hybrid branches.” Louis; Seattle; and Washington, DC.

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The First U.S. Human-Operated Submersible Changed the Course of Oceanography

Cars That Think

During a 1956 symposium about deep-sea exploration held in Washington, D.C., Electrical and fiber-optic connectors and cables were encapsulated in oil-filled hoses and boxes, making them waterproof. The crew escaped unharmed, but the food they brought for lunch sank with the ship. The vessel was completed in 1964.

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Frank Talk on Plug-Ins

Plug In Partners

photo EV World H ere is a new interview with Andy Frank from Washington Technology. Survival Guide: Perspectives from the field Washington Technology Feb. Plug-in hybrids rely more on electricity; the batteries are charged at night using a standard household outlet. WT:Fully electric cars kind of fizzled out.

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27 November 2009 - In First "Plug-in Arizona" Outing to Nogales, AZ, " the "Spirit" Made the News with Nogales International

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Nogales, Arizona Friday, November 27, 2009 Nogales International United States Census 2010 Electric hybrid ‘car of the future’ visits Nogales area By Denise HolleyPublished Friday, November 27, 2009 10:03 AM MST Retired Sgt. Army in Washington, D.C., He urged them to “kick gas because your future depends on it.”Asher he asked.

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BREAKING NEWS: Hermosa Beach To Become Carbon Neutral City! Acting Locally, Thinking Globally

Creative Greenius

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone. 1 city headed for carbon neutral, 87 more to go.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet." Batteries not ready.

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