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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. The sensor equivalent of a sleeping dog is called an event-driven sensor. This has been the experience of hundreds of Californians.

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USGS study concludes plausible California megastorm could result in 3x more damage than severe SoCal earthquake

Green Car Congress

The same is true of Sacramento: traffic to the north, south, and west is largely cut off for 1 week or so, with gradual recovery thereafter. These atmospheric rivers, the meteorological conditions that produce them, and the resulting precipitation and winds that affect California, can be simulated by using computer models.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power).

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Ted Lieu Wants My Money, Wants My Vote, But Doesn’t Want To Talk About AB 920

Creative Greenius

Ted didn’t leave Torrance any significantly better than he found it before his stint on the city council, but he ran to become my state Assemblyman anyway and got elected to serve in Sacramento. Galliani: Thank you for contacting me regarding your support for Assembly Bill 920 (Huffman) – Solar and wind distributed generation.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

This effort was led by Georg Kuhnke, who lives near Sacramento, California. in planning overnight charging locations and events. Seeing the inside operation of a wind turbine generator in Iowa and solar arrays throughout the country brought renewed hope for continued advances in renewable energy technologies and power generation.