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Originally planning to electrify their entire vehicle fleet, Chrysler is now scrapping their much-vaunted ENVI project, without putting one electric vehicle on the road. This could hurt those companies in the U.S. making lithium-ion batteries and other products for electric vehicles. Source: Clean Skies News

Clean Skies News goes behind the scenes at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, where new technology batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles are being developed with Department of Energy research funding. Source: Clean Skies News

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With a price tag of just $10, the Kiran, created by D.light, is billed as the world’s most affordable quality solar lamp. Just announced as winner of the 2009 Spark! design award, it is a much safer and brighter alternative to the kerosene lantern, and is designed to provide a highly affordable and easy to use light source for low-income families in developing countries. It uses highly efficient LEDs and will run for about 8 hours on its battery when kept on its low setting, or about 4 hours when on its high setting. Source: CNET/d.light

In the knowledge that coal power plants will come under legal and financial pressure to reduce CO2 emissions as part of efforts to reduce climate change, French firm Alstom on Friday unveiled the world’s largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant – a process known as sequestration. It’s a technology that backers hope will fuel a new multi-billion dollar industry and keep the coal industry alive. Source: AFP