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January 2, 2012

Cities Experiment with 'Momentum' Energy

Steven Towns, Governing Magazine

Could one answer to energy independence lie in our own movements or in the momentum of the vehicles we drive? Maybe someday. That’s the premise behind an emerging category of energy-harvesting technologies. . .

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