Tag: business
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Could a U.S.-to-Mexico High-Speed Railway Work?
A high-speed train could be transporting Americans to Mexico in less than two hours by 2018. Politicians from Texas met with Mexican officials in Washington earlier this month to discuss the feasibility of a high-speed passenger rail line from San Antonio, TX to Monterrey, Mexico. The project could begin in 2015, with 2018 as the earliest possible completion…
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Could a U.S.-to-Mexico High-Speed Railway Work?
A high-speed train could be transporting Americans to Mexico in less than two hours by 2018. Politicians from Texas met with Mexican officials in Washington earlier this month to discuss the feasibility of a high-speed passenger rail line from San Antonio, TX to Monterrey, Mexico. The project could begin in 2015, with 2018 as the earliest possible completion…
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Solar Industry Thanks Obama for SOTU Shout Out
After announcing that its employment growth rate was 10 times better than the national average, a shout out from President Barack Obama made the solar industry’s week even better. “Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar, every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can’t be outsourced,” Obama said during…
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Study Wrongly Predicts Electric Cars Won’t Reduce Pollution
By Roland Hwang A new study from North Carolina State purportedly shows that electric vehicles (EV) won’t reduce pollution in the long term. A closer look at detailed results reveals that the study actually shows the opposite: that higher electric vehicle adoption can significantly reduce carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. That’s…
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World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Swings Into Gear
By Ari Phillips On Tuesday the world’s largest and most powerful wind turbine swung into gear at the Danish National Test Center for Large Wind Turbines in Osterild, Denmark. The prototype V164-8.0 MW wind turbine is 720 feet tall, has 260-foot blades and can generate 8 megawatts (MW) of power—enough to supply electricity for 7,500 average European…