Dana Myers of the electric car company Myers Motors was the third alternative-energy entrepreneur presenting at the TEDxCLE session and the third to praise "disruptive" technologies.

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The security firm then offered him a training session at short notice, which he could not attend, but it did not offer an alternative.

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