Electric utilities count on climate data to anticipate peak power requirements and distribute power where it is needed.

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Taking to Crowd Supply for funding, Gridcase's Reactor features an internal 400mAh battery and a crank-powered 500mAh generator that allows users to manually distribute power to their phone's fading cell.

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But what we really need is big, new ideas: new ways to distribute and store energy for electric power, new ways to conserve and distribute clean water for farming and gulping, and new ways get ourselves and our cargo around, so that we don't change the Earth's climates too much as we burn our fossil fuels.

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We can generate clean, renewable electricity (often in low-demand regions) and get it to where it's needed by building a national smart grid to distribute clean power -- like a high-voltage Internet.

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And gone is all determination to limit the market power of media giants determined to both make and distribute content.

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BlackBerry, PocketPC, and Power Vision lovers unite 'cause Sprint just unleashed three phones meant to distribute the love to all.

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AmerisourceBergen is a pharmacy services provider and will distribute branded pharmaceutical products that Walgreen has historically distributed, and it will help Walgreen source and distribute generic drugs internationally potentially bringing both growth and better purchasing power with drug manufacturers.

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But as aftershocks continued to shake the area late on Sunday, blocked and damaged roads meant that rescue workers were still unable to distribute basic supplies in some of the worst affected areas, where residents were sleeping outside without power and water and with dwindling supplies of food, according to residents and state media reports.

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