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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

If the power source is limited in capacity, such as a battery, or in availability, such as a solar panel, the computer also monitors and manages power consumption. When we talk about managing power consumption here, we usually focus on the power used by the radio.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Much of the attention on electric cars has been on the vehicles’ design, cost and performance. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines. The employees pull into carports that are covered with solar panels and plug their cars into the 100 available charging stations.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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