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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

Éric Boquaire, the president of Brier’energie, told pv magazine France that the 8,000-square-meter (86,111-square-foot) canopy will consist of 5,000 solar panels. I personally think this project is innovative. That’s because the commune of Saint-Joachim is in the center of the Brière marsh. A sensible use of space, or a step too far?

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Review: “Getting Ready for Model 3”

Green Car Congress

Many of the hundreds of thousands of people who plunked down $1,000 for Model 3 know relatively little about battery electric vehicles and almost nothing about what they have to begin doing now to prepare for Model 3. This book answers their questions and provides a roadmap for those who want to better understand the car.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. Gaynor’s group also developed equipment for testing a streetcar’s exhaust and battery levels. As his fascination with different engineering fields grew, he set out to explore them.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

Cars That Think

From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. In 1961, Hubbard wrote of his recent discovery that the E-meter requires the auditor to have “command value” over the person being audited. In his patents (see, for example, U.S.

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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

Driivz

Or make your own recyclable gift wrap by using newspapers, brown paper with twine, or magazine pages. As the TV commercials like to remind us, ‘this the season for giving a new car to that special person in your life’. Wrapping with cloth or using cloth gift bags is another eco-friendly idea, plus the cloth wraps are reusable.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

When you go to these events, you can’t count on having accessible energy for battery charging, so we’d bring in generators.” A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.” “We would compete in front of 65,000 fans on Saturday and the Indy cars would get even bigger crowds on Sunday.

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Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In a guest editorial in Fortune , Grove writes that just as how power and efficiency of the internal-combustion engine were at the coreof the development of the automobile, batteries willbe a competitive advantage for the automakers of the future. Comments that contain personal attacks or profanity may be edited or removed. automakers.

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