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Electric Car Chargers To Cost $1,000 This Year

Domestic electric car chargers should soon cost $1,000 as the big boys like Siemens, GE and Eaton get in on the act.

 

GE’s product called WattStation comes out in the summer. Sometime this year the ‘Siemens Charge’ is due.

  The US government has put up $2.4 billion…

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TSMC To Power Fabs From Sun

Diversification is a wonderful thing. Now that TSMC is in the solar business through the 20% stakes it has bought in Motech and Stion, the company has said it will power a couple of fabs with solar energy.

 

TSMC’s boss of new business development, former CEO Rick Tsai, is…

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Japan Finds Minerals Mines

Japan has suddenly discovered something it has never had before – rich deposits of valuable mineral resources.

 

Japan has always suffered from being a nation without natural resources. It has had to import all its oil and raw materials. Now all that has changed. It has discovered mines.

  Now these aren…

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World's Energy Problem Solved

I solved the energy problem some years ago in the bath. You roof over part of an African country with solar panels. The locals get shade. The world gets energy.  Now the EC has pinched the idea.

Speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, Arnulf Jaeger-Walden of the…

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Google's 'Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal' Initiative

Whether Google is looking to find new ways to power its phenomenally power-hungry server farms, or just to save the planet, is unknown, but it has been stepping up its involvement in the solar power business with two investments in the last couple of months to add to its…

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