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Wireless Heater Made From a Leaf Skeleton Is Fully Biodegradable

Cars That Think

Among them: Our society generates massive amounts of waste that is going to remain in landfills for a long time. What’s more, the process of making these goods is also bad for the environment, considering raw materials, refining, supply chain, packaging, and so on. Unfortunately, there are some deleterious side effects.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

I wrangled a few hours of charging back in December from Bob Hayden, the SF Department of the Environment's EV Czar. San Francisco's Department of the Environment just received its first LEAF, which now uses one of these spaces. If you happen to have a chip-enabled credit card (I have no idea how prevalent they are), you wave it.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

Then as the sun sets in the West, hopefully the battery pack would have enough juice to power the house for the rest of the evening. . Again we had no idea if these were good or not and took advice from Contact Solar. This extra storage increases the length of time that we can run on the battery packs rather than the grid. .

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." The "normal plug" idea doesnt neccessarily work dude. Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment.

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World Earth Day & The Green Reset

My Energi

It’s no secret that our modern lifestyles put significant pressure on the environment. That’s why we’re launching #TheGreenReset – a national initiative challenging householders worldwide to swap their wasteful ways for environmentally friendly alternatives. Upcycle and recycle projects ideas to try during #thegreenreset.

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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. A free car on a four-year plan in France is another idea mentioned by Shai Agassi, CEO of Project Better Place. 2:54 PM Anonymous said.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The idea is that when your car needs more energy, you can drive your car into a station and, like an automated car wash, your depleted battery is replaced robotically by one that has a full charge. Maybe you should ask some engineers at the local power utility before you go shooting your mouth off, decrying how the idea will never fly.