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  • Umm … Rick Smalley was optimistic about what carbon nanotubes might do for low-loss electrical transmission, better batteries/capacitors, and photovoltaics.

    Matthew Yglesias » Today in Pessimism 2009

  • These low-loss glass fibers facilitate global broadband communication such as the Internet.

    The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics - Press Release 2009

  • The nation needs to build “an electronet,” a unified national smart grid, with high-voltage, low-loss underground wires that deliver renewable energy from the places that produce it — like the sunny Arizona deserts or the windy Dakota plains — to the cities where the majority of it is used.

    Al Gore and the Purpose-Driven Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The nation needs to build “an electronet,” a unified national smart grid, with high-voltage, low-loss underground wires that deliver renewable energy from the places that produce it — like the sunny Arizona deserts or the windy Dakota plains — to the cities where the majority of it is used.

    Al Gore and the Purpose-Driven Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • As you've no doubt heard and read, you can take a square of solar panels 96 miles on a side in the Southwestern desert and get 100% of the electricity needs for the United States, but you have to have the new high-tech, low-loss, high-voltage transmission grid equipped with smart features that also empower new conservation and efficiency measures.

    Faster, Faster 2009

  • Since high-temperature superconductors were discovered two decades ago, technologists have dreamed of low-loss electrical transmission lines, levitating trains and super-efficient motors.

    The second time as comedy 2006

  • New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines can be designed with “smart” features that provide consumers with sophisticated information and easy-to-use tools for conserving electricity, eliminating inefficiency and reducing their energy bills.

    The Cost of Not Investing In America « Christopher Colaninno 2008

  • The next president must make a national low-loss electric grid an imperative.

    Stopping Global Warming Can Wait No Longer Jim Horn 2008

  • The next president must make a national low-loss electric grid an imperative.

    Dr. James Hansen: Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming 2008

  • New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines can be designed with "smart" features that provide consumers with sophisticated information and easy-to-use tools for conserving electricity, eliminating inefficiency and reducing their energy bills.

    Bill Scher: The Next Bailout: Handouts or Hybrids? 2008

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