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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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government, and PurpleAir , created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors. A much better way to conserve battery power would be to use none of it at all until the system actually had important data to transmit. The sensor would trigger the computer to power up, process the data, and transmit it.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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the only companyselling hydrogen-powered cars to U.S. policy shifts to favor battery-powered autos. Honda has yet to announce plans to sell one, citing highcosts for the lithium-ion batteries needed to power them andpoor range. “We We will have packages that will be verycompetitive at that time.”

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