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What is the Real Cost of Power Production?

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Market prices don’t reflect hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden costs of energy production to human health and the environment
Market prices don’t reflect hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden costs of energy production to human health and the environment, a National Research Council panel said in a report released [...]

Steering sunbeams

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Solar power is becoming less of a luxury
JUST below your correspondent’s hillside home in southern California, a house is being rebuilt with all the latest thinking in materials technology and construction codes. Much has changed in the eight years since your correspondent did the same. Most strikingly, the house below has a gleaming [...]

Nissan Unveils Leaf, an Electric Car

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Coda Automotive E.V. Test Drive

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Coda Automotive revealed its battery electric sedan two weeks ago with a Webinar. On Sunday, I got a short test drive with the company’s president and chief executive, Kevin Czinger, near his home in Greenwich, Conn.
It can be very quiet in the leafy precincts of Greenwich, and the Coda added only a high-pitched [...]

Socket to Me

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The much-talked-of smart grid prepares to enter the home
READERS may recall a futile exercise your correspondent undertook last year to go solar (“Sunny side down”, Feb 15th, 2008). Despite having a large flat roof, an unobstructed view to the south, over 300 days of sunshine a year, and access to generous tax credits, [...]