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Lost in transmission

Americans like big things–big cars, big houses, Big Macs.  And the conventional wisdom around electricity transmission is that we have to spend trillions of dollars revamping the national grid so that it can carry intermittent wind and solar energy more … Continue reading

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Now that’s what I’m talking about…

Kaiser Medical Center in Santa Clara Two corporate giants have announced substantial investments in renewable energy.  Google invested $39 million in a North Dakota wind farm.  Google.org has, in the past, invested in solar thermal and geothermal, but this is … Continue reading

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