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When electric vehicles merely trickle into the market and utilities move at a snail’s pace when it comes to buying grid-tied batteries, where can an energy storage developer turn? To the somewhat generic, but decidely non-power-grid-connected “off grid market,” according to a new report. Read more »

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What would lead a company to walk away from negotiations for a coveted federal loan guarantee, as solar company Suniva did recently? It has to do with the terms of the government deals, the time it takes to obtain one, and the recovery of private markets. Read more »

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Grab your biofuel startups fast, Lux Research says — the field of contenders with game-changing technologies for turning non-food feedstocks into useful hydrocarbons is getting sparser by the minute. The report sees Big Oil and consumer products conglomerates quickly winnowing the field of the best technologies. Read more »

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Who can you expect to be very aggressive about going after the lithium reserves found in Afghanistan? China’s electric vehicle players. China is swiftly becoming an electric vehicle powerhouse, recently surpassing the U.S. as the world’s largest automobile industry. Read more »

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General Motors trotted out preliminary financial results for the first time this morning since it sloughed off bad assets to the government and emerged from bankruptcy this summer: GM saw a net loss of $1.15 billion between July 10 and September 30 of this year, but […] Read more »

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The solar market is booming — plans like Google’s to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels over the next two decades involve massive investments in installing solar technology. According to a report from Lux Research the global solar market will reach $100 billion in revenues by […] Read more »

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Thin-film solar technology, or thin layers of photovoltaics that can be printed onto flexible surfaces, will make up 28 percent of the solar market by 2012, says a report out this morning from Lux Research. Thin-film solar technology, which is being developed with materials like amorphous […] Read more »

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This Digital Inspiration tip on DocSyncer couldn’t come at a better time for me personally. I’ve been writing all of my non-jkOTR freelance work within both Word and Google Docs to see if the web-based service is good enough for my needs. Already I’ve had one […] Read more »

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Currently Fiber ISPs install ONT Boxes along with residential gateways at Fiber customer’s home. PMC Sierra’s MSP7160 combines the functionality of two boxes into one and decreases the number of elements in the network. It has WiFi, 2 USB ports, GPON wide area access port and […] Read more »

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NBCU Signs Up for TiVo’s Ratings Service; the peacock to get second-by-second viewer research and will implement interactive ad tags. (The Wall Street Journal) Userplane Hooks Up with TV Companies; The CW, FUEL TV and IFC to implement the AOL subsidiary’s webchat and web-based IM services. […] Read more »

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W3 will be discussing wireless web standards in Barcelona tomorrow and day after. Tons of presentations. No surprise, Microsoft is not presenting any papers. No Intel either. Tells you how serious they are about the whole wireless thing. Read more »