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Revealed: Jupiter’s Secret Power Source

Cars That Think

Jupiter’s northern (and southern) lights Jupiter's polar auroras are the largest and most powerful known in the solar system—and O'Donoghue says the energy in them, caused as Jupiter's atmosphere is buffeted by solar wind, is strong enough to heat the outer atmosphere of the entire planet. Winds in the cloud bands reach 500 km/h.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

mpg by 2016. cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61 Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 Two are geographically constrained (hydro and geothermal), placing wind and solar as the front running mass renewable energy choices. cents/kWh, with a range from 29.20

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

Green Car Congress

These three geographical areas will each have approximately 50 stations by 2016 and plans to expand this cumulatively to a multiple hundreds by 2020 and thousands in the decade thereafter. Germany will have ~14-16 H 2 stations this year, with 50 by the end of 2016. Japan will have 45 H 2 stations this year, with ~100 in 2016.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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The origins of NDEW and DEED

Plug in America

But, with the audacity of hope—and the confidence born of years driving these cars—we’re asking Obama to accelerate his plan and make it happen three years sooner, then to boost that number to ten million plug-ins by 2016.”. And media from Vermont to Alabama to Hawaii and beyond continue to carry our message of change. million total.

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