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Cheap, Easy, and Underutilized Online Communication for Nonprofits

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kWh lithium-ion battery pack. The concept car’s 30 battery modules—comprising 180 lithium-ion cells—were installed in spaces adapted to the vehicle architecture: in the floor of the trunk (fully usable cargo capacity: 275 liters, 9.7 Top speed is now 135 km/h (84 mpg), versus 140 km/h (87 mph) announced earlier this year.

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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. This company has developed a battery that will run cars among other things. The new technology uses mainly salt water. The website is not even up yet for this social enterprise business. I fervently wish them well. Free Range.

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

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Environment aside, from a consumers standpoint it makes a tremendous amount of sense. It's much cheaper for the consumer; it's under a dollar a gallon to fuel your vehicle with electricity as opposed to gasoline, so there's a real consumer incentive to support this technology. BB: What's preventing this from happening?