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Banking on Batteries

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Detroit’s Three have published their survival plans. Read more...

Jump Start A Green Economy With Solar Utilities

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President-elect Obama wants to create 5 million new “Green Energy” jobs. Read more...

Jump Start A Green Economy With Solar Utilities

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President-elect Obama wants to create 5 million new “Green Energy” jobs. The sooner the better, but how? What incentive or government program will create these jobs? Read more...

Urgent action needed now - drug company-inspired double whammy

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  FDA, both domestically and through Codex, has been trying to make information about the relationship of food and food components to health forbidden speech. That includes supplements, of course.
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In Defense of Detroit

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The problems of Detroit’s Big Three - Ford, GM, Chrysler - are not necessarily of their own making. Read more...

Solar Thermal and Fossil Energy Working Together

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Like it or not, coal-fired power plants are going to be around for a while. We hate to admit it, but we’re as addicted to coal as we are to oil. For now the best we can do is use electricity from coal plants as efficiently as possible and continue to add more renewables to the mix of electricity sources on the grid to lessen the need for more coal plants. Read more...

Wanted: Automotive Visionary

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There’s talk that the incoming Obama Administration wants to create a “Car Czar,” a White House leadership post that could serve as a point person for federal agencies that deal with automakers. If this position is created it can also help steer the nation’s auto companies in the right direction, towards the color green, of course. Read more...

Now is the Right Time to Tackle Global Warming

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In a video to governors attending a two-day summit on global warming in California, President-elect Barack Obama outlined his federal proposal to tackle global warming. Read more...