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...getting creative about pricing - for example, by allowing buyers to lease expensive battery packs to spread the cost over the lifetime of the car. The electricity required to run an electric car costs about a penny a mile, he says, compared with 10 cents a mile for a gas-powered vehicle. "Think of a battery as part of the fuel of the car," says Richter. "When you buy a new car you don't buy 10,000 gallons of gasoline out of the dealer showroom. As purchasing terms are structured in a way that is acceptable for consumers, people start...
Robert Furchgott, 92, helped uncover the important medical benefits of nitric oxide, a gas that helps mediate blood pressure and flow. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine...
...Politics On May 21, the American Clean Energy and Security Act--also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill, after its Democratic authors--passed through a House committee. If approved, the 1,000-page bill would institute the nation's first federal cap-and-trade system for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions...
...greenhouse-gas emissions in 2007 by economic sector, in billions of metric tons...
...than it can possibly invest at home - a description which China fits in spades - does is recycle its surpluses is through foreign direct investment. And China, in fact, has done scores of resource deals in the developing world - of late with Russia, Kazakhstan and Brazil in the old and gas sector, for example. But twice now in the developed world, big Chinese investments have been spurned. First CNOOC, now Chinalco...