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The Game-Changing Water Revolution: Interview with Stanley Weiner

Green Car Congress

Everything is connected to everything else—that’s the first message to be heard loud and clear from this emerging ‘water revolution’. In Israel, for instance, there are contracts to build these permanent desalination plants, but now it looks like the permits aren’t going to come through.

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Hawaii opts for EVs and renewable energy

Revenge of the Electric Car

By using existing electric car technologies, coupled with an Internet-connected web of tens of thousands of recharging stations, he thinks his company, Better Place L.L.C. of Palo Alto, Calif., will make all-electric vehicles feasible. The company plans test deployments of vehicles in 2009 and broad commercial sales in 2012. “I

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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. Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA SZ (1) 6753.T

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