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Can We Harness Kinetic Energy to Reduce our Carbon Footprint?

Clean Fleet Report

Turning motion into electricity Wind turbines are a prime example of harnessing kinetic energy from the movement of air molecules. These turbines convert the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical energy, which is then transformed into electricity. See more at E Magazine. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

Cars That Think

Before we launch into this episode, I’d like to let listeners know that the cost of membership in the IEEE is currently 50 percent off for the rest of the year, giving you access to perks, including Spectrum Magazine and lots of education and career resources. So go to IEEE.org/join to get started. So what’s the current status of the AI Act?

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. In the mid-1950s, 3M advertised its Scotch audio reel-to-reel tape.

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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

Green Car Congress

The lithium, found in salty water, or brines, is the most cost-effective on the market; it’s cheap and easy to extract, giving competing battery gigafactories new, affordable American lithium resources that will be a global game-changer. And the Tesla gigafactory is just the tip of this overall iceberg.

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Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

and it stillleads globally. PC Magazine, the PCMag.com logo and Gearlog are registered trademarks of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. Got a Question? "He When the government helped American chip companies, the industry didall right," Grove said. "It All Rights Reserved.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In order to minimise carbon emissions linked to electrified transport, global attention on vehicles and infrastructure that will maximise the use of renewable energy for mobility has increased. The island has 40,000 inhabitants and an energy infrastructure characterised by a large proportion of wind energy.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. We do all the paperwork.

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