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• Camera’s clunky, fat capacitor no match for a supercap
• Smart Grid Scorecard suggestions: Would your design measure up?
• Slacker Environmentalist #2: Buying a NiCd battery pack to extend equipment life
• The taxing problem of solar energy: Solar exemptions not to everyone’s taste
• LED throwies used in Beijing protest
• Handy table of Top 20 Photovoltaic Manufacturers
• Massive solar project garners protests from solar energy industry
• Confusion may exist about power supplies covered under federal EISA Act
• Laptop cooling pad: Another instance of USB as a pure power source
• Worldwide auto market ponders cheap vs. clean: Either way, electronics wins

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• Massive solar project garners protests from solar energy industry (43)
• Feds call halt to new solar plant permits, may give boost to municipal installations (43)
• Why diesel is so expensive (41)
• McCain pledges $300M battery prize, but lithium ion is no slam dunk (31)

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Power Management Articles

• External power adapter combines USB power with interchangeable ac plugs
• Lithium-ion technology targets portable power
• Technology gives windows a solar edge
• EDN on Power Technology: Major solar project garners protests, federal EISA Act, more...
• Integrated ORing controller and MOSFETs run fast and cool for redundant supplies
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