"We were worried as we are always worried because it meant uncertainty, " said Martha Duggan, the vice president of regulatory and government affairs for the solar unit of Energy Conversion Devices.

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Clearly, though, the Bloom Box is still not a zero emissions tech and would only cut emissions by roughly 50% relative to the national average, unless it runs on landfill gas or biogas or hydrogen from electrolysis fueled by zero-carbon electricity (which would be much more expensive as you have to add cost of electrolysis unit, higher cost electricity, and about 30% conversion losses in electrolysis).

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He even demoed the unit on a new Toshiba 52-ish inch 1080p DLP, which did the progressive deinterlace conversion on the set, so I assume most 1080p sets will do the same with interlaced content.

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