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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

Their journey began with a question posed by its founders, Tommi Eronen and Markku Ylönen, when they were university classmates: “Is it possible to build an energy-self-sufficient and cost-effective hippie commune for engineers using only solar power?” The intermittent nature of daylight and strong winds, however, is a stubborn problem.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. In perhaps the most sobering statistic shared at the 2009 SAE conference, Prof Thrun’s investigations have led him to believe that 1-1.2 Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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