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Powrtalk explores new ideas to make power cleaner sooner for the US and the World
- Added on: Aug 19th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Andy Bochman
- Listed in: Technology Innovation
- Tags: energy sustainable solar hybrid renewable turbine
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Change
We're changing our blog presentation (to make them more accessible and searchable I think). All the tech blogs will be posted at discoverynews.com. You can still rummage through the old PowrTalk stuff at http://news.discovery.com/con...
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