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Crypto’s Slow Motion Gold Rush

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"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 If you're not plugged in, you're not making money," says Perrill. It can take six to twelve months to build up those kinds of facilities." The math is real easy—zero revenue.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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This project is unique in that the buses will be charged during the day to take advantage of the renewable energy made available by the abundant solar and wind energy available on the island. City of Lincoln, Nebraska. The City of Asheville will receive funds to acquire 35-foot battery electric buses and chargers. 500,000.

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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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for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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These batteries, if successfully developed, could triple the energy density of existing electric vehicle batteries (target: 400 Wh/kg)) and rapidly hasten adoption of low cost plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. This novel ultrahigh efficiency engine could replace current backup generator technology of Plug-in Hybrid Electric vehicles.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

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Element Hotel General Manager, D Dave Smith, plugs in the RAR'ster. Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska. This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle).

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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.

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