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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons.

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The Sneaky Standard

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It was wasteful, made being a hardware manufacturer more costly, and added to consumer confusion. At the high end of the professional market, workstation-level computing from the likes of Sun Microsystems , Silicon Graphics , and Digital Equipment Corporation suggested there wasn’t room for Intel in the long run.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Renewable energy projects are frequently financed with project rather than corporate finance. What is the PTC and why does it matter?

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How a Parachute Accident Helped Jump-start Augmented Reality

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Adjusted for inflation, they cost about US $8,000 and weren’t even a thousandth as fast as a cheap gaming computer today. The best PCs on the market back then used Intel 486 processors running at 33 megahertz. The other option was to invest $60,000 in a. Silicon Graphics workstation—still less than a hundredth as fast as a mediocre PC today.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. But this wastes 2 kilobytes of RAM. ?“A We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 0.50% 10yr 98 10/32 Yield: 2.94% Apr 17 5:15pm ET † Company Price % Change Unisys Corporation 1.50 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76

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