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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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ONR developing offensive autonomous swarming capability for unmanned surface vehicles; adapting JPL’s CARACaS

Green Car Congress

As autonomy and unmanned systems grow in importance for naval operations, officials successfully demonstrated the new autonomous swarming technology—enabled by sensors and software—over two weeks in August on the James River in Virginia. —Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The United States must reduce its global warming pollution emissions at least 80 percent below 2000 levels by 2050 to avoid some of the worst effects of global warming. A uniform price multi-round auction was used by the State of Virginia to auction its emissions allowances in the NO x Budget Trading Program in the eastern U.S.

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