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The Lies that Powered the Invention of Pong

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It sold 2000 units but was never a hit. It sold 2000 units but was never a hit. He divided the cost of a computer by the amount of money an average arcade game made and promptly dropped the idea, because the economics did not make sense. Bushnell a year earlier as an employee of Nutting Associates.

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New lithium polysulfide flow battery for large-scale energy storage

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As the lithium surface is well passivated by LiNO 3 additive in ether solvent, internal shuttle effect is largely eliminated and thus excellent performance over 2000 cycles is achieved with a constant capacity of 200 mA h g ?1. 1 can be achieved.

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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Ultra-Reliable Radio

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Menzel says he first saw the frequency selection proposals for JWST around 2000, when he was working at Northrop Grumman. Any scientific data the JWST collects during its lifetime will need to be stored on board, because the spacecraft doesn’t maintain round-the-clock contact with Earth. I knew where the risks were in this mission.

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

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While renewable energy has made promising gains in just the last few years—the cost of solar dropped by about two-thirds from 2009 to 2014—new drilling and extraction techniques have made fossil fuels cheaper and markedly increased the amount of oil and gas available. —Christopher Knittel.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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The big issue with sodium-ion batteries is that they can store only about two-thirds of the energy of Li-ion batteries of equivalent size. The cycle life is crazy, as you can see here they claim more than a lakh cycles on their cell, while LFP cells have around 2000 cycles. It’s ridiculous. First Sodium-Ion EV in 2023?

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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This three-year project incorporates engineering of fleet control, manufacturing and installation of seven 500-kW/6-hour TransFlow 2000 energy storage systems in California, Massachusetts, and New York to lower peak energy demand and reduce the costs of power interruptions. 16,080,554. Seeo, Inc (CA). 10,792,045. 44 Tech Inc.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Terman stressed that KAIS should aim to “satisfy the needs of Korean industry and Korean industrial establishments for highly trained and innovative specialists, rather than to add to the world’s store of basic knowledge.” During the third period, from 2000 on, industry seized the helm of semiconductor development.