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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

Driivz

With the season of peak consumption at hand, it’s not surprising that waste levels globally increase by 25-30% during the holidays, including reams of wrapping paper destined for landfills. Or make your own recyclable gift wrap by using newspapers, brown paper with twine, or magazine pages. Switch to LED Christmas lights.

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Startup Makes It Easier to Detect Fires With IoT and Flir Cameras

Cars That Think

Fires at recycling sorting facilities, ignited by combustible materials in the waste stream, can cause millions of dollars in damage, injuring workers and first responders and contaminating the air. MIO won the 2016 Innovators Award for industry-best product from Vision Systems Design magazine. Startup MoviTHERM aims to do that.

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

Creative Greenius

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. The second copy set you gave us is a little light. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. Could you make us another copy?”

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

Green Car Congress

A 2010 NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) analysis concluded that V2V systems potentially could address 79% of all vehicle target crashes, 81% of all light-vehicle target crashes, and 71% of all heavy-truck target crashes annually. The NHTSA assessment ( Frequency of Target Crashes for. If vehicles approaching from.

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AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables

Cars That Think

You may feel virtuous, thinking you’re doing your part to reduce waste. That’s a lot of material made from finite resources that needlessly goes to waste. Expanding its use will prevent waste and help the environment by keeping recyclables out of landfills and making them easier to reprocess and reuse. AMP Robotics.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

No party for Citis owners: You and me FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- When gas was topping $4 a gallon last summer, the urgency to find alternative sources of energy to power cars and trucks became clear to most Americans. After that, their management skills and backgrounds diverge. 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. The most notorious problem was “sparkle,” a defect that caused small spots of light to appear on the display screen. But this wastes 2 kilobytes of RAM. ?“A Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! It’s only sand.”

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