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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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The IEEE Fellow was awarded the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor for “pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer, and the semiconductor industry.” Intel helped cement the region as a global center for technological innovation, the article says.

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

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A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5 The article was countered the next day by an AOSIS statement that its proposed mitigation path would be expected to temporarily result in average temperatures of slightly more than 1.5

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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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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Here’s the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. By contrast, hybrid vehicles that mix traditional internal- combustion engines with electric power accounted for less than 3% of car sales in 2008, more than a decade after their introduction. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use.

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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. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. Moreover, making an electric bicycle uses far less energy than making an electric car.

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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. Its a coalition between the Tree-Huggers, Do-Gooders, Sod-Busters, Cheap Hawks, and the Evangelicals". 2008.03.20 - New rechargeit.blogspot.com about PHEVs.

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