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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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Britain was behind the United States when it came to laser research, and it took time to acquire such an expensive piece of equipment. As he told an interviewer in 1975, “Our future, both from a food and an energy point of view, may well have to depend largely on photochemistry applied to solar energy. www.youtube.com.

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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. Department of Energy campaign to explore the feasibility of solar-power satellites , which, it was proposed, would one day harvest sunlight in space and beam the energy down to Earth as microwaves.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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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. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources. February 17, 2009 12:04 pm Link I cant wait to charge my car from my own solar panel.

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

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Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. If you charge with solar, is way less. We need to stop BURNING fuel in our cars.

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