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..."Nearly eight years and a reported $250 million in venture-capital investment later, Sridhar has a working product that’s been in field trials for the past two years and is about to go on the global market, at a price he says will be competitive with existing energy options. As for results: in an ongoing trial at the University of Tennessee, a five-kilowatt Bloom box (the size of a large coffee table and capable of powering a 5,000-square-foot house) has proved twice as efficient as a traditional gas-burning system and produced 60 percent fewer emissions."....

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/12/who-needs-the-grid/7...

Any energy source that requires transmission lines is a flawed energy source.

AARP: Reacts to president’s health care townhall
8/12/2009

Jim Dau or Jordan McNerney

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AARP Reacts to President’s Health Care Townhall

"WASHINGTON – AARP Chief Operating Officer Tom Nelson issued this statement following remarks by the President at a townhall event in New Hampshire on health care reform.

“AARP has been working with Democrats and Republicans to fix our broken health care system.

“While the President was correct that AARP will not endorse a health care reform bill that would reduce Medicare benefits, indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate."

Complete letter: http://www.aarp.org/aarp/presscenter/pressrelease/articles/prez_townhall...