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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

Éric Boquaire, the president of Brier’energie, told pv magazine France that the 8,000-square-meter (86,111-square-foot) canopy will consist of 5,000 solar panels. The municipality will fully finance the €3.35 That’s because the commune of Saint-Joachim is in the center of the Brière marsh. million ($3.6 million) installation.

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The Battery Revolution Is Just Getting Started

Cars That Think

Gordon Moore himself told us so in his seminal 1965 magazine article, in which he predicted that we would be able to double the number of components in a digital integrated circuit every year for the next 10 years (turns out he was a pessimist). Batteries are key to decarbonizing our economies. But it'll never happen.

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PEUGEOT charges ahead with revised pricing and finance offers for PEUGEOT e-2008 and e-208

Drive EV

With revised pricing for all e-2008 models and enhanced deposit contributions for the e-208 range, Peugoet is latest manufacturer to respond to the recent overhaul of the UK Government’s Plug-in Car Grant. This move follows Citroen, Vauxhall and Kia who have adjusted their prices. The Peugeot e-2008 offers up 206 miles of range (WLTP).

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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. He was a geek. I don’t know.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

One is to operate successfully as a market, with a steady supply of carbon offsets and varying prices to ensure that profits can be made. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010). THE APPROVAL PROCESS. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

customers $600 a month to lease.Honda hasn’t revealed its production price. Oil prices are going to go up. Thehydrogen-powered car has a top speed of 105 miles per hour andtravels as far as 280 miles on electricity produced by its fuelcell stack. The vehicle costs U.S.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

And the marketplace also began to compete based on price. Similarly, GE sold off GE Capital for $26 billion after the 2008 finance and banking collapse, which is a far cry from a decade earlier, when it was worth ten times that. Once the PC business in IBM got folded into the main corporate structure, its costs of operating went up.

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