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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times.

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Delivery of renewable isooctane to Audi tips interesting potential non-biomass pathway for biogasoline; “e-benzin” as solar fuel

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Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel. Earlier post.). —Thomas Buhl. Audi e-fuels.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The first conference, “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change”, was held in 2005 at the Met Office in Exeter, and focused on pathways to climate stabilization at or below 2 degrees Celsius. Victorian Coastal Council, 2008 However, some planning departments are incorporating adaptive measures into their recommendations. 12 ] Charles J.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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AFP Some 21m electric bicycles were sold in China in 2008, according to Frank Jamerson, author of Electric Bikes Worldwide Reports. The figure has doubled since 2005. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. In Shanghai alone there are an estimated 1m electric bicycles.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

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They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. Our efforts began to be noticed in early 2005 when we were covered in The New York Times, Business Week, TIME, Newsweek, National Public Radio, and local and network TV.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Galbraith joined The New York Times in June 2008 to write about renewable energy. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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