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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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Mobile, Voice-Operated Everything, and Security, Oh My! Top Nonprofit Tech for 2016

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Lithium ion battery failures were big again this past year. Lithium ion batteries will continue to power our mobile devices — and continue to catch fire now and then, but not that often. Voice-Operated Everything. We can talk to our cars with voice command systems like the Ford SYNC.

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

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We do that by showing up at auto shows and giving voice to the public, and you know just the old fashioned stand out there with your banners and get heard, and get heard by the media and be the dissenting voice that calls out their green-washing and that makes it clear that there's a lot more that these companies could be doing.