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FISKER HYBRID First true electric plug...
...start pumping out new wind turbines with the same industrial urgency the U.S. produced tanks and bombers in World War II, Brown writes, we could generate 3 million megawatts of wind power by 2020, enough to meet 40% of the world's energy needs. Solar thermal, plug-in hybrid and geothermal technology are all part of Plan B. (Did you know that the geothermal energy contained in the upper six miles of the Earth's crust is 50,000 times more powerful than all of our oil and natural gas? Brown does...
...environmentalists quietly celebrating. The more expensive oil gets, the more attractive alternative - and climate-friendly - fuels become. Biofuels that would be buried by $17-a-barrel crude - the price as recently as November 2001 - are suddenly competitive when oil is in the triple digits. Ultra-efficient cars, public transit, plug-in hybrids - they all become better investments as oil gets and stays expensive. Global greenhouse gas emissions have skyrocketed over the past few decades on the back of relatively cheap oil, but as the price rises, it pays to decarbonize, and the climate will benefit. Most immediately, expensive oil essentially...
...China recently. I talked to Youngman manufacturing, one of the largest manufacturers in China. They're going to build a plant here. They're going to build cars here that are all electric. ZAP cars. It's unbelievable. It's all electric. You come home at night and plug it in.... This state is booming when it comes to research and development of green technology...
...India take immediate action, even as the lack of water may appear to many as more of a nuisance than a matter of necessity. India’s want for water is growing urgently, and solutions can neither be delayed by apathy nor mired in red tape. Better to plug a trickle now than to confront a cascade later. Jessica A. Sequeira ’11, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Canaday Hall...