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

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. I want it to be all of California.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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One is to operate successfully as a market, with a steady supply of carbon offsets and varying prices to ensure that profits can be made. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010). THE APPROVAL PROCESS. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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During the next five years, the price of RAM chips fell enough to accommodate the huge memory demands of bit-mapped graphics, and the Mac was followed by dozens of similar interfaces for PCs and workstations of all kinds. But aided by prizewinning advertising and its lower price, the Macintosh took the world by storm. Cupertino, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Twelve chips, each with more than 3000 transistors and 36 leads, were to handle different elements of the calculator logic and controls, and he surmised the packaging alone would cost more than the targeted retail price of the calculator. You’re crazy.” And finally, they estimated that sales might total only 2000 chips a year.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. Broady paid a high price: Besides being disbarred, he served the entirety of his four-year sentence in jail. It was also entirely legal to hire someone else to do it for you. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and.