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Modular and green, the PowerPod seeks a home
Created: 09/18/2007
Video description: CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica visits the first demo model of the PowerPod in an unlikely place--an old coal power plant in the industrial city of Lawrence, Mass. He takes a look at the flexible green home and gets some ideas on how it might be used.

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