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NASA’s Artemis I Revives the Moonshot

Cars That Think

Looks like we’re looking back toward the Saturn V. But Nelson is right: The rocket is retro in many ways, borrowing heavily from the space shuttles America flew for 30 years, and from the Apollo-Saturn V. Launius, for one, rejects the argument that government is inherently wasteful. Who hasn’t?”

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

An Argonne researcher reached consensus with researchers from other national labs, universities, the Air Resources Board, automakers, utilities and AD Little to estimate in July 2002 that PHEVs using nighttime power reduce greenhouse gases by 46 to 61 percent. Thats 20-25 cents a gallon. Why Pay More for a PHEV?

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They only have that many models because they use the same chassis and drivetrain to build 3 different cars, one branded as a Chevy, the next a Pontiac, then a Saturn, etc. We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. South Korea did that and Australia is going to be doing that.

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