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

Green Car Congress

Today we have just reached an important milestone on the path that will lead us forward to profitable industrial applications. 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.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Apple coming from the computer industry to deliver iTunes and the iPod,&# he added. “You may see that start to happen in the energy sector.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Some numbers and percentages in Europe may look different from what you see elsewhere, because I’ve added light-commercial vehicle sales to numerator and denominator, to make the comparison with other regions equitable. France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US.

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The Greenius Solution To All California’s Problems: AB 920 + AB 811

Creative Greenius

The dots that other folks were failing to even see, already looked pre-connected to me - like those incredibly real artificial Christmas trees with the lights already set in place and ready to plug-in. is using federal stimulus money to kick-start their program and they’re going to be rolling out a large program countywide.

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