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The Obama administration today moved to rescind a 2007 decision by the EPA to not allow individual states the opportunity to set their own emissions standards. Under the previous state of EPA control, states couldn’t create emissions standards that were greater than federal ones - the argument being that automakers might be forced to build [...]

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Just a short post on this, but it looks like San Jose has won a major new “green” business here in the valley with the announcement that Tesla Motors will be building a new factory and office park here in the Silicon Valley. Funny enough, professor Bruce Olszewski was mentioned in the Spartan Daily (the [...]

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A couple exciting pieces of news have hit me in the last few days that I thought I’d share. For one, it looks like the new internal combustion engine has been chosen for the upcoming Chevy Volt. The Volt, for those that aren’t familiar with it, will be a unique plug-in electric hybrid car that [...]

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According to Travis Bradford (author of Solar Revolution), the wave of the future in solar is closely tied to the wave of the future in hydrogen - specifically fuel cells. Hydrogen fuel cells mean portable energy on demand, with essentially no greenhouse gas emissions. However, hydrogen itself isn’t a very potent form of potential energy [...]

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Just spotted this article on Engadget AMP offers all-electric Saturn Sky - a company called AMP (Advanced Mechanical Products) Motor Works is converting Saturn Sky’s in to all-electric cars. The performance numbers look pretty legitimate: 150 miles on a charge, 0-60 in less than 6 seconds, and a top speed of over 90 miles per [...]

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