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a.k.a. the "electranet". 500 mpg cars. Independence from foreign oil. Most important lever against climate change.

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retweet: @harshalpatel Obama Policy Reco for Smart Meters: http://tinyurl.com/5p74uc

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Gov't: "rescue" GM by letting it bankrupt. Spend $50 billion on smart grid instead of bailout to incent new owners to make plug-in hybrids.

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"The Climate for Change" by @algore (http://is.gd/78kV)

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Average age of engineers cheering Apollo 11 from Houston control room was 26. When President Kennedy announced the challenge they were 18.

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Instituting a strict U.S. "cap and trade" policy (http://is.gd/78fC) seems increasingly more urgent than ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.

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Lot of focus on the Big 3 automakers right now. What if what we need is a Big 300 automakers figuring our plug-in hybrids?

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Cost of the smart grid ($400 billion over 10 years) pales in comparison with annual "line loss" costs to American business of $120 billion.

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"A Smarter Planet" by IBM. (http://is.gd/6IzE)

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"A Green New Deal" - Compares smart grid spending to military spending in the 1930s. Fighting carbon = fighting fascism? (http://is.gd/72nc)

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Lanza Tech (http://lanzatech.co.nz) now on my radar.

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@Seeger hmm.. maybe the same cost? what's the change function (crisis v. pain of adoption) for electric grid actors in U.S., India, & China?

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"hybrids aren't cost effective. they'll never be a big part of the next billion cars we ship on this planet." vinod khosla

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listening to Vinod Khosla podcast

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price needs to be cheaper than coal & oil in china & india. nothing else matters, scales, or solves the climate crisis.

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it's relevant scale that matters. wind & solar don't matter until they are at relevant cost. only 1 relevant cost: cheaper than coal.

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photovoltaics can grow 30% a year for 10, 20 years & become 5% of the world's electricity. what about the other 95%?

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Rhode Island aiming to beat Massachusetts, Texas, & Delaware for first offshore wind farm. (http://is.gd/6gyZ)

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SAP demo of smart meter, cell relay, & call center interaction. (http://is.gd/6gpC)

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GridPoint received $120 million in venture capital. Working on plug-in vehicles in Boulder, CO. (http://is.gd/6gom)

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India smart grid success story. global potential: €61 billion energy savings, abate 2.03 metric gigatons of emissions. (http://is.gd/6dN1)