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Boeing Suspends Financial Outlook as It Focuses on Safety

Baua Electric

“My focus is on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and the actions we are taking as a company to strengthen quality and earn the confidence of our customers, the confidence of our regulators and the flying public,” Boeing’s chief executive, Dave Calhoun, said on a conference call with Wall Street analysts. “We

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

At a renewable energy conference in February of this year Doug Berven, the director of Corporate Affairs at ethanol producer POET, shared the following capacity projections for the ethanol business: At the beginning of this year the industry had 12.1 All of these issues are contributing to excess capacity in the industry. Earlier post.).

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Conferring with Amtrak on "Spirit's" Auto Train Return from Sanford, Florida. Note: the Green Train leave on its six week venture from Portland and is en route to DC. Will be a'waiting to converse further while the "Spirit of DC" takes me to San Diego, CA on Friday. Setting up PHEV3A Committee Open Planning Sessions.

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Adding Graphene to Metal Oxides Significantly Improves Li-ion Electrode Specific Capacity at High Charge/Discharge Rates

Green Car Congress

They presented the results of their work on these hybrid TiO 2 -graphene systems earlier this week at the Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference in Portland, Oregon. Wang et al. Donghai Wang, Daiwon Choi, Juan Li, Zhenguo Yang, Zimin Nie, Rong Kou, Dehong Hu, Chongmin Wang, Laxmikant V. Saraf, Jiguang Zhang, Ilhan A.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

As Sutherland put it in his thesis , “The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings. The Sketchpad system…opens up a new era of man-machine communication.”

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. Ted Kulongoski arrived to test-drive an electric car and urge the company to import through the port of Portland. Wang takes a seat across from me - he is 43, a smallish man, with black hair and glasses - and begins, through an interpreter, to tell me his story.

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