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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

megawatt (MW) solar canopy will cover the Saint-Joachim cemetery and supply electricity to the commune’s 4,000 residents from the summer of 2025. 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. million ($3.6

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

If cap-and-trade in the United States were to become reality along the lines of proposals now before Congress, up to 2 billion of the new credits would be drawn from carbon offsets, potentially increasing the worldwide supply of such credits by a factor of seven. 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

Automakers must plan for an eventual tightening of globaloil supplies and pressure to cut greenhouse gases, Fukui said. Hydrogen may have a future, but the view seems to be thatbatteries are what we can do reasonably soon,” Becker said. Oil prices are going to go up. We will have packages that will be verycompetitive at that time.”

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

The South Korean government had established the institute in 1971 with financing from the United States Agency for International Development and had invited. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. Frederick E. In academia, meanwhile, Kim had become a model to emulate. Patents: 15 (3 in the United States, 12 in South Korea).

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. will be competing for the same finite supplies of oil and gas. To get an adequate supply of batteries for U.S.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

In the end, Apple got a commitment from Zilog to supply the part, which Mr. Espinosa attributes to the negotiating talents of Mr. Jobs. to handle the finances of the Macintosh project. A vent was added to the Macintosh casing to allow cool air to enter and absorb heat from the vertical power supply, with hot air escaping at the top.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Also ferrying guests about a short circuit (so to speak) was a smart fortwo imbued with a Tesla-engineered drivetrain, fruit of its effort to supply Daimler with battery packs for 1,000 smart eds. Motor Trend Magazine has extensive coverage of all cars online including road tests, free videos, buying guides, etc.

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