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Latest GHG Inventory shows California remains below 2020 emissions target; much steeper rate of GHG reductions required

Green Car Congress

Per capita GHG emissions in California have dropped from a 2001 peak of 14.0 tons per person to 10.7 tons per person in 2018, a 24% decrease. Transportation emissions declined 1.5 million metric tons between 2017 and 2018, the first such decline since 2013. Emissions from high-GWP gases increased 2.3%

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Later, the converted Kim would become the “loudest-speaking” professor at KAIST, according to several fellow faculty members, and they say his absence made the whole campus seem quiet. During the third period, from 2000 on, industry seized the helm of semiconductor development. Kim rose quickly within Fairchild’s hierarchy.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. Google founder Sergey Brin drove one of the 2001 Th!nk Now the relationship with EVs may be going further still.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I The hard work came to fruition in Flight Simulator 2000 , which reached a technical milestone: It mapped the entire planet in 1-kilometer blocks. It didn’t depict real airspace or modern airplanes. The Blackshark.ai

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Switching power supplies are the type used to power virtually all personal computers, mobile devices, and appliances that run on DC.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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Flat Lenses Made of Nanostructures Transform Tiny Cameras and Projectors

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Today, many mobile devices use DOEs to convert a laser beam into “structured light.” It took until 2000 before the theory of metamaterials was implemented in the lab. They published the discovery in 2001 in Science , causing a stir as people imagined invisibility cloaks. That year, Richard A.

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