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Transportation2: Battery-Wheel Powers 3-Wheel Car

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

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Energy2: Solar Industries, Brutal Global Price...

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

(CLICK on the picture, to read the full source Article) Quote The solar industry is in the midst of a brutal global price war . . . which has led to the bankruptcy of 4 U.S.-based solar producers, . . . including the high-profile collapse of governmen...

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Economy2: Who Owns You?

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

QuoteThe reliance on foreign oil and . . . its increasing price has raised havoc on the trade deficit in recent years. In the years 2001 through 2010 . . . the U.S. imported $1.79 trillion’s worth of oil . . . out of the total accumulated “trade d...

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Multipurpose2: Solar, Cooking - Electricity - H...

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

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Multipurpose2: Wheel-Barrow Water Drum/carrier/...

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

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Multipurpose2: Water Drum/carrier/time Saver

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

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Multipurpose2: Play On The Merry-Go-Round/water...

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

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Transportation1: California To Create A Multi-M...

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

QuoteIn order for high-speed rail (HSR) systems. . . . . . to reach their maximum ridership and. . . . . . revenue potential,. . . they’ll need to connect with local transit services. . . so longer-distance travelers. . . can get to their final destina...

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Energy2: Printing Oled Newspaper, Affordable?

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

GE demonstrated roll-to-roll printing, Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) . . . (think newspaper style printing) process for OLEDs thats: . . . . . . high performance, . . . . . . energy efficient, and . . . . . . surprisingly inexpensive. The applic...

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Energy2: Ge Oled & Led Christmas Trees

Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

The OLED team at GE Global Research has gone over the top . . . with their traditional OLED holiday greeting-- this year . . . displaying the first ever OLED Christmas tree. 500 GE Color Effects G35 RGB LED nodes (10 50-light strands) . . . synchroniz...

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Energy2: Why Not To Trust Percentages

Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

Wind power now contribute about 3% of the total U.S. electricity In 2010, the U.S. wind turbines industry installed . . . 5,115 MW of generating capacity, . . . increasing the country’s installed wind farm capacity by 15%, . . . according to the Ameri...

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Energy2: Solar Windows/siding?

Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

Quotea step toward photovoltaic glass is pretty impressive. . . . The team even thinks they may be able . . . to tweak the dyes in use now to include infrared light and . . . get up to 15% efficiency. This is without mentioning . . . that if a window i...

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Energy2: Why Solar Energy? (Video)

Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

Solar Energy Abundance! Falling Solar Costs Solar Energy Industry Growth Largest Solar Power Projects

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Energy1: Energy Storage Is A Critical Piece Of...

Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

Adding Energy storage, so solar and wind plants can provide power . . . even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. Energy Storage, removes the requirement to use electric power . . . as soon as it is created on the power grid. This...

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Energy1: Ge Global Team Targets Simplifying Hom...

Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

GE Global Team Targets Simplifying Home Solar PV Installations According to Charlie Korman, manager of Solar Energy Programs at GE Global Research, . . . the average cost today of installing a solar system . . . on a typical home runs $6.50 per-wa...

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Energy1: Who Consumes The Most Energy Worldwide?

Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

Who consumes the most energy worldwide? USA or China? 4,190 Terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2010 . . . China. 3,741 TWh that year . . . United States.

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Transportation1: Electric Vehicles Enable More...

Nov 11 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles

QuoteThe U.S. Northwest could get an additional 12% of its electricity . . . from local wind power . . . If 1 in 8 of the region's cars used batteries. That ls the conclusion of a new study . . . from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories . ....

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