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Roskill: Green magnesium moving to commercial reality; China’s dominance under threat?

Green Car Congress

In the 1990s, the magnesium metal market was dominated by supply from North America (46%), what is now the CIS (25%) and western Europe (19%). There would probably not be any production in Israel if the Dead Sea were not already being exploited for other commodities. By the early 2000s production in France, Italy and Norway had ended.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

Cars That Think

Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. That’s not cheap, except by U.S. Reaper, which it broadly resembles.

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Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Walkout at UN conference after Iran.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. The elegance of that is wonderful. The best part?

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

Cars That Think

Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers. Israel made news in April by field-testing an airborne antimissile laser called Iron Beam, a play on the name Iron Dome, the missile system it has used to down rockets fired from Gaza.

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