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Electric Vehicle Battery-Switching System UnveiledMay 13, 2009 By Kevin Bullis ( Technology Review) — Startup Better Place demonstrates a system for swapping out depleted batteries for charged ones. Better Place, a company based in Palo Alto, CA, that's made deals with numerous governments around the world to install charging infrastructure for ...
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Carbon Sciences Mimics Mother Nature, Turns CO2 Into Fuel | CleanTechBriefMarch 30, 2009 By Mary Campbell — Santa Barbara, California-based technology company Carbon Sciences doesn’t do anything Mother Nature can’t do – it just does it several million years faster. What the company does is change carbon dioxide into fuel by means of a biocatalytic process – the kind ...
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Concentrating solar powered desalination - a water solution? (ScienceAlert)Australia needs electricity and Australia needs water. Concentrating solar power can help provide both. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which creates electricity directly from sunlight, concentrating solar power first creates heat. This heat can then be used either to generate electricity or to ...
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Texas Invests $5 Billion to Deliver Wind PowerTexas is the undisputed wind capital of America, with over 7 gigawatts of turbine power. The only problem is that it's located in the middle of Texas and the electrical grid doesn't have the capacity to get all that extra juice to the big cities. To remove this roadblock, the state is pumping ...
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The Disruptive Side of Auto Electrification - Software, Storage, Sidewalks & Parking LotsYes, the 'electric car' is coming, but do not be fooled by first generation ideas being fed into the mainstream media. The short term challenges are probably being understated as the transition will take many years to unfold. But the long term disruptive changes are more profound than anything ...
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Better Place in deal for Canadian electric car network - Green WombatSilicon Valley startup Better Place on Thursday unveiled a deal with the government of Ontario - the Michigan of Canada - to build an electric car charging network in the automaking province. The announcement comes on the heels of agreements Better Place — the electric car infrastructure company ...
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Hawaii to be 1st state with electric car stations - Yahoo! NewsHawaii has unveiled plans to be first in the nation to roll out electric car stations statewide — a move the governor hailed as a major step toward weaning the islands off oil. Hawaii imports foreign oil for almost 90 percent of its energy needs. One-third of that oil is used to power cars and ...
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Battery Maker Bets on Silver-Zinc for Laptops - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comAs batteries go, the rechargeable lithium-ion variety is among the greenest options available. They can last for years, they are recyclable, and they don’t contain the toxic heavy metals found in many of their Walkman-powering predecessors. Your iPod has a lithium-ion, and most likely, so does ...
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RFID Journal - - RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Technology News & FeaturesIn California, Coulomb Technologies is installing its Smartlet charging stations, accessible by means of a customer card containing a high-frequency passive tag.
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California to set up a $1B electric car network » VentureBeatBetter Place (formerly Project Better Place) has scored a coup in the California Bay Area. The electric vehicle startup has struck a deal with the region, including the cities of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland, to set up a $1 billion charging network for electric cars, with car availability ...
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