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Crypto’s Slow Motion Gold Rush

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Combined with a rally in the price of Bitcoin starting in June, the ban prompted a scramble to set up whole new operations or relocate mining chips stranded in China. We've seen newer miners that haven't done this before thinking you can buy 10,000 machines and just find a spot to plug them in," he says. "It

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Nebraska – Lincoln). the electric vehicles or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The project will enable “personalized” price signals to be. This “plug-n-use” technology will enable reliable. Northeastern University. Arnold Magnetic. Technologies. Corporation, Columbia. University, General. Motors Research and. efficiency.

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China and the Electric Car | Autos | Smart Spending | Mainstreet

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market in 2011, along with a plug-in hybrid model, the F6DM. Plugging In BYD’s all-electric E6 mid-sized vehicle can run for 250 miles on a single charge and tops out at 100 miles per hour. automakers in their own market. automakers such as Ford (Stock Quote: F ) and General Motors (Stock Quote: GM ).

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up. per barrel.

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