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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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The researchers refer to these particles as nanolithia. Overall, the new battery system is “ very scalable, cheap, and much safer ” than lithium-air batteries, Li says. —Xiulei Ji, assistant professor of chemistry at Oregon State University, who was not involved in this work.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. If you don’t build something like that, people can’t refer to it. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. Rustam Kocher: It is. It won’t work.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

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More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data. Answer a few questions and get graded on your money skills. Now buyers, like the Lamuses, are venturing back. 5.90 / 0.07% Nasdaq 1,673.07 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76

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

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They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. The day after Fortunes visit to BYD, Oregon Gov. Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data. Electric cars will be one answer.

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

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states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). Supplementarity refers to the idea that the role of offsets in an emission reduction program should be secondary to reduction efforts at regulated emission sources.

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