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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

Nobody was recharging any cell phones or laptops during the 1976 bicentennial year. (I I learned all bout this in Joe Romm’s great book, “Hell and High Water&# (c) 2007). That’s a phenomenal accomplishment considering how much our electronic footprint grew in that time period. How powerful will that make you?

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. There are about 600,000 GHE installations working in the U.S.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. The Appraisal 2010 Prius Delivers Record Mileage and Accelerates.

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