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phantom power

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9. I admit I was thinking of 1990s Wired articles

Reply to joshcryer (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 10:16 AM

Jan 2013

probably written by Tom "flat-earth" Friedman. But either way. They were supposedly going to leapfrog us into some kind of energy efficient fossil-free manufacturing economy. Not so much.

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