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Coal-solar hybrid
It doesn't make sense -- and that's the point |
Adam Browning |
30 Sep 2007 |
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| More than a few people were taken in by a guy peddling a coal/solar hybrid system at Solar Power 2007. "But, smokestacks on the roof -- that just doesn't make sense," said a government bureaucrat, who shall remain unnamed pending resolution of my grant proposal. Indeed, it doesn't. As the less credulous might have predicted, it was a marketing spoof by Sharp Solar: This, fight fans, is textbook campaigning in the YouTube era. Come up with a shtick that ... |
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| Topics: coal, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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