Archive for June, 2009
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Dr. Rob Wilder is Manager of Encinitas, Calif.-based WilderHill Clean Energy Index (ECO), the first Index on Wall Street for renewable energy, better energy efficiency and zero-carbon solutions. He was previously on faculty at U.C. Santa Barbara, and University of Massachusetts; he has been AAAS/EPA Fellow in Environmental Science & [...]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
The Waxman-Markey climate bill (HR 2454), passed in the U.S. House of Representatives today, is hailed by many as the most important piece of climate change legislation ever. Yet it's still receiving a surprising amount of opposition from environmentalists, mostly for it's plentiful polluter permits, weak renewable electricity goals, and low carbon emission reduction targets .
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Imagine taking an already efficient gas furnace and generating a home's electricity directly from it, while it heats? That's the reality that Marathon Engine has in store for the North American market today.
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
With the recent lawsuit filed by Martin Eberhard, which seeks to perpetuate a version of Tesla’s history that is at odds with the truth, I felt it was important to set the record straight. This post is not a complete response to the allegations in the lawsuit (we will be responding fully in court soon), [...]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Not a big post, rather a Twitter-style update. Just to confirm that I saw the first 2010 Prius on the streets of Seattle, WA a week ago. There are still waiting lists galore at the dealers but this lucky guy (or gal) had probably been on the list long enough to get the first 2010 model. It was silver color – looks like the most popular color out there. And yes, it is a shame I did not have a camera with me 
Tags: 2010 Prius, Prius, Third Generation Prius, Toyota Prius
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
The idea was simple: Celebrate the one-year anniversary of Tesla’s first showroom with a “Roadster Rally” and say thank you to customers in Southern California, our largest regional market.
We didn’t realize we’d get such an overwhelming response!
The first owners arrived last Saturday from San Diego around 8:30 a.m. They charged [...]
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Bill Arnett is a software engineer who envies Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers – people who tried to understand a large fraction of all human knowledge. During an attempt to retire and spend more time on hobbies such as photography and astronomy, Bill decided to learn HTML by creating an astronomy site. It became so [...]
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