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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

Cars That Think

When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. Proposals for co-locating data centers next to nuclear power have popped up in New Jersey , Texas, Ohio , and elsewhere.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

Though he ignores the other reasons a wealthy person might buy a Bentley – style, creature comforts, as an indication of socioeconomic status, and so on. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be allowed to buy a car that has a high potential top speed. We don’t know why Villani owned a Bentley. I wish it didn’t happen, but it does.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

Cars That Think

Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We BMW , Google , Samsung , and Volvo have all said they will not buy metals mined from such sources until the environmental impacts are better understood.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Instead they could buy back electricity at peak hours from vehicle drivers. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Remember its PURE D.C.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Boone Pickens plan, which states that using all the wind power capacity from northern Texas to the Canadian border would produce AS MUCH AS 20%. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. Look at the T.

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