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High-Wire Robot to Inspect Power Grid: Tyler Hamilton reports, “A robot designed to crawl along tens of thousands of miles of transmission lines could help inspect North America’s vast and aging grid infrastructure without the need for manned helicopters inspections.”

Green Data Centers in San Dieg0, Montreal: Green Broadband notes, “The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and CLUMEQ, a Canadian High Performance Computing consortium led by McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, have been awarded grants from Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE) and the Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership (CCSIP) to design an ultra-efficient datacenter as part of a program to promote ‘green’ IT initiatives.”

Wee CA Desert Town Has Massive Solar Plan: Todd Woody reports “The desert micropolis — population 38 — announced Thursday that it had installed a solar array that will provide 85 percent of the town’s electricity. (The population of this outpost on the edge of Mojave National Preserve spikes to 250 or so during tourist season.)”

10 Week to a DIY EV: Love it. “Graduate students at Stanford University designed and built an EV in 10 weeks as their master’s thesis. They’re calling the vehicle, which can hit 35 mph and has a range of around 20 miles, the WENG, which stands for “Where Everyone Needs to Go,”” via EcoGeek.

Verizon Buys 500 Natural Gas Vehicles: AT&T did this last year. Verizon has bought “501 Ford E-250 cargo vans upfitted with clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG) engine packages versus conventional gas models.”

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