Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

Tesla’s investor day on 1 March began with a rambling, detailed discourse on energy and the environment before transitioning into a series of mostly predictable announcements and boasts. Ferrite magnets, based on a form of iron oxide, are cheap and account for nearly 30 percent of the permanent-magnet market by sales.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. But full credit for the thumb drive really belongs more to the environment—the ideas circulating at the time and the networks of clients and suppliers—than any individual.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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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