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...Licks Homemade Ice Cream Cafe 1312 Massachusetts Ave Open daily, 6 a.m.-Midnight With fake grass covering the walls, funky lanterns, and a frozen yogurt with probiotic bacteria that helps prevent yeast infections, this is no average ice cream shoppe. In addition to its extra creamy ice cream made in nearby Jamaica Plain, the chain J.P. Licks offers hard and soft frozen yogurt, homemade baked goods, and house-roasted organic, fair trade coffee served from 6 a.m. onwards. Ice cream flavors range from the classics to seasonal choices like apple crisp to the highly recommended Oreo cake batter. Of course...
...created by electric cars would simply be to build more power plants. That would be expensive, however, and, if the additional plants burned coal or natural gas, bad for climate change. A better solution: tap into the enormous extra capacity of the grid during off-peak times, like between midnight and dawn. According to a study by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, off-peak capacity could support the conversion of 73% of the current auto fleet - enough to cut demand for oil in half - without the addition of a single extra plant, provided the cars all charge late at night...
...that, however, we need to persuade plug-in owners to recharge at the right time - by pricing electricity cheaply late at night, when demand is low. If charging a plug-in battery costs 2 cents-per-mile after midnight, and many times that during the day, drivers will likely wait before plugging in. (If that pricing model sounds familiar, it should be - it's how long distance calling works.) But to make that system work, utilities will need to install smart meters in customers' homes capable of monitoring when cars are charging, and then to price the juice accordingly; smart...
...windows, the wind was so strong. Just a few minutes earlier, the branches of trees were barely moving. It's certainly a strong storm, but not nearly as powerful as folks feared. And so Gustav arrived with a somewhat diminished bang, the first bands striking just before midnight. For much of Sunday evening, the city, and region, had been bathed in the odd silence that usually precedes hurricanes. As the wind quickened, the street lights shook...
...quiet room at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago, returning to his home city every night through last weekend. Always a night owl, the Illinois Senator writes out every idea by hand, revising his thoughts as he logs the pages into a laptop. He's already gone well past midnight twice...