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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. The most notorious problem was “sparkle,” a defect that caused small spots of light to appear on the display screen.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

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Still, the instant torque of the electric motor is a rush you get to experience all the time in city driving; each time you pull away from a red light and stop sign youre wondering why gasoline engines ever became popular. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Small size. New technology.

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

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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

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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. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Powered by Blogrunner Previous post The Promise of a Better Light Bulb? To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. Not good for large EV’s but great for light ones. electric car race with i MiEV in Oregon?

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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The new weapon combines the output of a large bundle of fiber lasers of varying frequencies to form a single beam of white light. 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. Wells imagined them in his sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds ?

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