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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

You notice the smell of smoke, and when you try to turn on your bedside light you discover that the power is out. The main reason is access to power. If we had a sensor network that rarely—or never—drew power, imagine how many important places and things could be monitored, how many lives could be saved.

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The electric car and grid parity - OregonLive.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It The idea is to electric vehicles more competitive with conventional, gas-powered vehicles, so that a purchaser can consider paying roughly the same amount for either.

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