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EU investing in 3 year 'road train' projectRoad trains that link vehicles together using wireless sensors could soon be on European roads. An EU-financed research project is looking at inexpensive ways of getting vehicles to travel in a 'platoon' on Europe's motorways. Each road train could include up to eight separate vehicles - ...
David Greene
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Social Innovation Camp - social innovations for the digital ageSocial Innovation Camp is an experiment in creating social innovations for the digital age. We think the web and related technologies hold huge potential to change some pretty fundamental stuff: how people hold those in positions of power accountable; who they rely on to provide the services ...
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Your vote can help fund the development of free and open curricula! Please vote here.Former Google Executive Paul Buchheit is preparing to donate funds to a cause he and you thinks is important. Before he does so, he wants your input! Curriki has suggested to Paul that he fund the development of a complete set of high-quality K-12 open source content that can be used by ...
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Changing the Social Ethos is the KeyI envision a sequential and incremental process, whereby increased social insurance generates a change in citizen preferences in a solidaristic direction, which then induces still more social insurance through the democratic process. This is the process, I conjecture, that brought Europe, and ...
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Nordex USA Will Manufacture Wind Turbines in…USAEnergy | | Nordex USA Will Manufacture Wind Turbines in…USA By Tina Williams Made in the USA is back. Nordex USA, Inc., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of wind turbines, has just announced that it will build a manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The plant is expected to ...
Flora Moon
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Hydrokinetic Technologies: Will the U.S. Lose Ocean Energy to Europe? | CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.comHydrokinetic Technologies: Will the U.S. Lose Ocean Energy to Europe? The earth is the water planet, so it should come as no great surprise that forms of water power have been one of the world’s most popular “renewable” energy sources. Yet the largest water power source of all – the ocean ...
Flora Moon
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All things Africa and ICT - PSD Blog - The World Bank GroupI've just run across a spate of items on the development of ICT in Africa; although it could just be coincidence, I suspect there's been a growing interest in this topic in the development community. First off, Africa Telecom News has just come out with an Africa Mobile Factbook (Hat tip: Whi...
Flora Moon
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David CoxonEuropean Court's throw out Microsofts offer to ship Windows 7.0 without any browser software at all in Europe. Norweigian browser maker Opera ASA are sueing US software giant Microsoft in the European courts for abuse of thier position, in not shipping the Opera browser alongside Internet ...
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Next GenerationHarvesting the Wind Three young French designers hatch an ingenious plan to use existing infrastructure to create clean energy. By Suzanne LaBarre From the window of a TGV hurtling through France, the countryside flattens to a smudge—electrical towers rise and recede in clusters, and ...
Flora Moon
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Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Europe's Re-Entry Vehicle In ActionESA is building a spacecraft that can safely reenter earth's atmosphere.
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