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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? I liken electric grid and renewable to the economic and political and military fiasco of the Iraq war. EFICIENCY OF ENERGY CONVERSION There is a law in science (more specifically, thermodynamics) that.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power. 12:47 PM joe said.

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

I’m a bird lover too and a fellow member of the Audubon Society so we had yet another thing in common as we began what turned out to be a lively two hour conversation that went by in a flash. Then in 2003 we presented a forum on Iraq, “Voices From the Streets.&# Before I left I knew two things.

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