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IPG to demo Flameless Ceramic Turbine for clean, off-grid power in EV charging

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IPG’s project will demonstrate the role of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in bringing EV charging to high-use and remote locations through clean, cheap, grid-independent power generation. Not only can IPG’s technology deliver low-emission, pollutant-free energy on today’s cleaner fuels. —IPG CEO Toby Gill.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. And so now, we’re seeing very cheap pieces of very effective silicon that you put right with a camera. And it’s really cheap.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Now are we still stuck maintaining our addiction with clean needles, or, best case, settling for methadone? And oil only seems cheap. That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. While providing a boost to renewables, such a slowdown would increase import bills, heighten energy security concerns and make it harder and more expensive to combat climate change. —WEO 2011. Click to enlarge. —Fatih Birol, IEA Chief Economist.

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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

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Eliza Strickland: Man-made climate change is already reshaping our planet, and carbon emissions aren’t coming down fast enough to stave off real disaster in the decades to come. It’s often called geoengineering in the popular press, but the preferred term is climate intervention. It’s one of the key questions in climate science.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. As more renewables come online, battery electrics just keep getting cleaner and greener. ↓ ↑ report 12 Throwback 11:29AM (4/23/2009) Envi includes the GEM entries. Or maybe just snap up the engineers. But where does Hydrogen come from?