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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

Baua Electric

At Portland International Airport, in Oregon, there’s a movie theater screening short films by creators from the Pacific Northwest ( located after security in Concourse C). Mr. Tsutsui, the canned-cheese fan, said that as a frequent traveler to Japan, he’s rarely surprised by what he finds in vending machines.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?”