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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., These days, his main technical interests surround energy, water, and climate change.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. In effect therefore, the more energy convertion stages there are the less efficient the process is. Close down all the car companies. — Sir Giddy Up 24.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) This company is not stupid." ( NY Times Magazine ) 2/16/07 In an interview with BusinessWeek on Feb.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 10:06 pm Link I make, convert and drive EV’s and have for 13 yrs. Editor After a year as an editor at large for National Geographic magazine, Tom returned to The New York Times in July 2008 to help expand the papers coverage of sustainable energy development and green business. — Jeff U 6. Follow the money.

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