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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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EPFL/Technion team develops “champion” nanostructures for efficient solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen

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global sunlight. The whole point of our approach is to use an exceptionally abundant, stable and cheap material: rust. Its efficiency was such that gas bubbles emerged as soon as it was under a light stimulus. The next step will be the development of the industrial process to large-scale manufacturing. 2 air mass, 1.5

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Unfortunately, there is very little specific funding for wireless transmission in the stimulus bill that was just signed by the USA President. In fact, almost none at all.

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