The earnings calendar remains light today, with notable reports arriving from Fuel- Tech (FTEK), United National Foods ( UNFI), AeroVironment ( AVAV), Metabolix (MBLX), and Pandora Media (P).
The critical fuel for tech growth, educated labor, is now expanding faster in places like Columbus, Austin, Raleigh, Dallas and Houston than in Boston, San Jose and San Francisco.
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As an example, Pell pointed to platinum, a valuable commodity which is a critical part of catalytic converters for cars as well as clean-tech fuel cells.
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Today, thanks in part to discoveries made right here at Argonne, some of the most high-tech, fuel-efficient, pretty spiffy cars in the world are once again designed, engineered and built here in the United States.
Ask the Chrysler workers near Kokomo -- (applause) -- who were brought on to make sure the newest high-tech transmissions and fuel-efficient engines are made in America.
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Extrapolating from North Carolina, perhaps other states with an abundance of energy-producing manure and lower-than-average energy costs (like Iowa) can expect to see interest from other tech giants and their fuel cells.
Digital wireless technology will likely do the same for this decade and, with luck, fuel a long-awaited rebound in high tech.
Cases like eBay's fuel fears that development of new high-tech products may be seriously hampered by the litigious intent of some patent-holders.
In contrast we, in established economies, are currently investing in technologies (like clean tech) that increase the cost of basic amenities like fuel, as well as making a point of honor of protecting industries that need to be cannibalised.
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Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
Solar thermal heat is low tech, easy to manufacture and install, low maintainance, the fuel is free, and the energy is easy and low cost to store until it is needed.
In 2009, Virginia Tech researchers found that there were some traffic calming measures that actually increase fuel consumption and emissions.
Bill Wiberg, general partner for clean-tech investor Advanced Technology Ventures, thinks that an increase in merger and acquisition and offering opportunities will also fuel investor optimism and new investments.
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