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John Gage discusses the effort to make the conference carbon neutral. They did not succeed this year because it was too hard to measure all carbon sources associated with the conference. They'll try again next year. You can buy carbon offsets at $3.75 a ton, but Gage thinks this is off. the real number may be as high as $100 a ton. They are definitely thinking about electricity budgets of devices, including phones. They want to run devices off the grid. Today, with Solio, they can get 10 minutes of talk time on a phone per one hour of solar charging. "Our holdup forever has been the battery."
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