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January’s Secret: It’s the Best Month

Baua Electric

I dislike breaking up my routine in the second half of December,” said Mr. Mac, 55, who lives in suburban Washington and, like many comics, travels extensively. “I Airline traffic slackens, which means cheap flights. I can’t get anything done.” Others like the month’s lack of social obligations and sense of calm.

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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

Cars That Think

And so the cost of that right now is really, really high. But right now we’ve got some distance to go with any of these ideas. And again, scientists look to what they’ve observed before when arriving at these ideas. And that idea became what they call now marine cloud brightening. It’s only been done on a pilot level.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

coalition led by electric utilities , sensing a way to gain market share through vehicles that derive 90% of their power from electricity and can recharge at night when power is plentiful and cheap, kicked off a national campaign in Washington yesterday to push auto makers to make plug-in hybrids.

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

Cars That Think

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. Your chargers are not public chargers, but I have a feeling you have some ideas about why the uptime is so bad. Charged : For a fleet going electric using your service, are they looking at a cost per mile that’s equivalent to diesel, or does it depend?

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Today, this cap-and-trade program is considered one of the most efficient and cost-effective environmental initiatives ever implemented. Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Factors Determining Abatement Costs.

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