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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

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She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. A woman named Gail Work stopped by to chat about her new non-toxic green battery company in Silicon Valley called SeaWave Battery. This company has developed a battery that will run cars among other things. I fervently wish them well.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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They were extremely successful in generating the support of politicians all over the country. We're also working with those cities on generating some demonstration projects. What we're trying to do is generate enough support to indicate that we need these announcements out of the auto industry to translate into something tangible.

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iFixit’s Basic Phone Repairs that Most of Us Can Do

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But repair-unfriendly policies certainly don’t make sense to me: those policies hurt customers and they hurt the environment. In the last 10 years, iron ore production has increased by 180%, cobalt by 165%, and lithium by 125%. Pound-for-pound, electronics are the most complicated objects human beings know how to make.

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