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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

Cars That Think

When it comes online in 2026, Linglong One will have a capacity of 125 megawatts of electricity (MWe)—equivalent to around 40 onshore wind turbines. Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. near Motorola, and another 20 or so work in San Francisco, not far from Apple.

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