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

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ºF) above pre-industrial temperatures. worldwide temperatures, as compared to pre-industrial temperatures. worldwide temperatures, as compared to pre-industrial temperatures. 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

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. One of our industry partners, PowerLight Technologies , formerly known as LaserMotive, has been developing laser-based power-beaming systems for more than a decade. Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ].

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

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“Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Apple coming from the computer industry to deliver iTunes and the iPod,&# he added. “You may see that start to happen in the energy sector.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Recycling of dead cells will become a big spin-off industry just like re-built motors are today, and all will be well in America, slower, but off of oil, and better, more sustainable - you know, more “Granola&# — Uncle B 8. I also wrote an article about cars and what’s good and not good. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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