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Feature: Electric ladyland: when battery-powered cars were built for women

In 1907, technology futurist Carl H. Claudy  held forth on the electric car in the pages of Motor magazine. The vehicle, Claudy enthused, does "more work, in certain lines, than horses ever did."...

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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments

German solar juggernaut rolls on despite tariff cuts

An article in German photovoltaics magazine Photon last month has shed light on the dramatic effect that photovoltaics technology had on reducing the price of electricity over the last four years. But as...

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Thursday, April 5th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Denmark’s 50 percent wind commitment and a path to fully renewable power

Denmark has committed to generating 50 percent of its electricity from wind sources by the year 2020, by which time the country hopes to have reduced CO 2 emissions by 34 percent compared...

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Friday, March 30th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Nobody Asked For A Refrigerator Fee

They would cut up large blocks of ice from the frozen lakes in the winter, store them on sawdust in huge barns, cut the blocks into smaller chunks and sell it in the...

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Sunday, August 21st, 2011 Net News No Comments

Google fiber expands to the other Kansas City

At a press conference yesterday, Google announced that it was expanding its 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed network. No longer limited to the citizens of Kansas City, Kansas , the company now plans to include...

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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 Net News No Comments

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