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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

Global 2ºC maximal warming limit as compared to past and. The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

dollars (or other currencies, as Amazon is a global business) on demand. The owner of a FIL token is essentially buying a security connected to (and making a bet on) revenue in the data-storage market. This article appears in the December 2023 print issue as “Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currencies.”

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

45 years ago, mass produced computers exploded onto the global stage as a harbinger of the digital future. The Altair-Duino runs a clock-cycle accurate emulation of the Altair 8800 running on an Ardunio Due connected to a replica panel that duplicates all the lights and switches of the original.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?” .

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. I also wrote an article about cars and what’s good and not good. None of the new electric cars are planning to use old-tech lead acid batteries. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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