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Solar Impulse grounded until 2016 due to battery damage; team studying better thermal management

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Solar Impulse, the solar-powered electric aircraft attempting to fly around the world, will be grounded in Hawaii until early spring 2016 due to damage to the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii. The Round-The-World mission will resume early April from Hawaii to the USA West Coast.

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ICL, CMU study associates PM2.5 air pollution in US with >30,000 deaths and reduced life expectancy

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Air quality in the US may be linked with increased mortality and reduced life expectancy according to new research from Imperial College London and the Center for Air, Climate and Energy Solutions at Carnegie Mellon University. excluding Alaska and Hawaii) between 1999 and 2015. million deaths between 1999 to 2015 in the USA, with 18.4

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EV Readiness Index Study shows which U.S. States are most prepared for an electrified future

Teslarati

LeasePlan USA, a self-proclaimed “Car-as-a-Service” company, released the results of its EV Readiness Index study in the United States. ” LeasePlan USA. Hawaii at 2.20 Hawaii – 15.0 – 1, 3, 1, 2, 5. All fifty states, including Washington DC, were assessed. ” Between 10 and 14.9

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61

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Australia introduces its first exhaust rule but makes all the mistakes the US did

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Albanese succeeded a string of right-wing Liberal prime ministers, including most recently Scott Morrison, who was criticized for, among other things, taking a vacation to Hawaii while his country was on fire due to a climate change-exacerbated brush fire.

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smart fortwo electric drive Debuts in the US

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smart USA Distributor LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Automotive Group, Inc. smart USA will begin deploying a fleet of 250 electric drive vehicles across the United States this fall, targeting key electrification leadership cities and Department of Energy grant areas. smart USA Distributor LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Automotive Group, Inc.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

Did I mention that we are also as doomed as doomed can be when it comes to a livable climate and none of what I’ve been working on is going to stop that or even slow it down? Having seen “Inconvenient Truth” the year before I was driven to work on climate change and related environmental issues.