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San Francisco will offer up to ,000 for homeowners installing solar panels.
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Aggressive plans to expand renewable energy in San Francisco moved ahead Tuesday as the city’s lawmakers approved grants to help homeowners, businesses, and nonprofits add solar panels to their buildings. Solar power …

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San Francisco will offer up to ,000 in rebates for homeowners installing solar panels.
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Aggressive plans to expand renewable energy in San Francisco moved ahead Tuesday as the city’s lawmakers approved grants to help homeowners, businesses, and nonprofits add solar panels to their buildings. …

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Phoenix Lander’s vibrators get Martian soil sample into instrument’s oven

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The latest trend in industry conferences is not showing up.

The lobby of the Virtual Energy Forum

The Virtual Energy Forum has been going on these last two days and I haven’t had to leave my seat to visit.

It’s all online. You arrive at a conference center, …

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AMD says it is on track to deliver a dual-core chip code-named Kuma, refuting speculation that certain Kuma models have been canceled.

“The speculation is completely untrue,” said AMD spokesman Jake Whitman. “We’re still on track to launch a dual-core–code-named Kuma–part in the second half of ‘08. It will …

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Pluto and its kind get new name

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Toyota Motor plans to produce lithium ion batteries next year for a plug-in hybrid vehicle available in 2010.

The company on Wednesday said that the plug-in hybrid will be “geared toward fleet customers in Japan, (the) United States, and Europe.”

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Prince Caspian combines simplistic gameplay with a confusing narrative for an action adventure that unfortunately isn’t as good as the movie it’s based on.

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Loaded Extra: On the red carpet with Internet superstars

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Playing around with the iPhone Racing game debuts on Apple phone

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