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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

light-duty vehicle fleet would produce around 16 times the output of stationary power plants. Kempton and Letendre also noted that the average light vehicle was used only around 4 percent of the time. The researchers estimated that, if applied to the task of generating electricity, all of the engines in the U.S.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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World Earth Day & The Green Reset

My Energi

From small steps like ditching single-use plastics and shopping local, to larger changes such as investing in solar panels for your home or switching to an electric vehicle, here’s ten suggestions to get you started for you and your family: 1. Step away from them screens for a few hours and get your creative juices flowing!

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Al Muratsuchi Votes To Kill Community Choice Then Finds Out He Was Duped & Calls Me To Apologize

Creative Greenius

They’re also climate change deniers and don’t have a single union executive smart enough to understand the climate science or know what science tells us is coming. The Greenius says these guys are long overdue for a colonoscopy and I know a great proctologist here in the South Bay.

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Seattle says it intends to help develop the charging network; consider incentives for buying and using the cars, and creating charging stations; consider regulatory changes to support the cars, such as streamlined permitting for installing charging outlets; and consider leasing or buying the cars for its fleet.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance. The USA got the leap on everyone else with solar, wind and other fossil free energy as well as electric cars and other alternative fuel vehicles. But nothing we did could gain the parks any more love or funding.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance. The USA got the leap on everyone else with solar, wind and other fossil free energy as well as electric cars and other alternative fuel vehicles. But nothing we did could gain the parks any more love or funding.

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