Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

—Richard Yetter, a professor of mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University and a principal investigator on the project. In response to the Funding Opportunity Announcement issued by AFOSR on 3 April 2009, the Princeton-led team proposed a solution based on the use of graphene—molecular sheets of carbon atoms.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Lewis Latimer/Google His exquisite patent drawings and keen understanding of how to translate technological ideas into schematics on the printed page were so highly regarded that when Alexander Graham Bell retained the firm to help him put together his patent application for the telephone, Latimer was assigned to do the work.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. in 2003 she worked at the lab as a research staff member. We had to come up with new ideas for how to improve the quality of [transistors] when we make them smaller,” she says. “We

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

Mg 2+ ion insertion into ion-transfer hosts proceeds slowly compared with Li + , so it is necessary to realize fast Mg 2+ transport in addition to other requirements, noted a 2003 study by researchers at Nankai University in China. The idea was that we need a high energy density cathode that works with the electrolyte and a new anode.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, scientists and researchers have pored over the map of our shared genetics to pick apart the clues and find the root causes of a host of human health problems. at The University of Texas at Austin, producing a technique to directly edit genes. I did my Ph.D.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 11, 2009

Having achieved success in Europe, it seems the idea is finally gathering momentum in North America too. The likes of Zipcar, which has 275,000 members, is targeting university campuses and corporate customers; while Hertz has also made moves into the sector.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2022

It may be that the outcomes of inexperienced junior surgeons are counterbalanced by those of senior surgeons—or it may be that junior surgeons are really learning on their first patients “in the wild,” which is a somewhat uncomfortable idea. Top: Spencer Lowell; bottom: Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

But he has talked to enough of them to know they don’t share his point of view: “I get the feeling that people love the idea of humans being great, and that hands are what make humans quite unique.” Nearly every university robotics department Spiers visits has an anthropomorphic robot hand in development.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

It had only carried out one such investigation since then, into the 2003 Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people. By the next morning, we had some idea that were going to go out and do a preliminary reconnaissance." Following the World Trade Center collapses and Pentagon attack on 11 Sept.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 6, 2021

It had only carried out one such investigation since then, into the 2003 Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people. By the next morning, we had some idea that were going to go out and do a preliminary reconnaissance." Following the World Trade Center collapses and Pentagon attack on 11 Sept.

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Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2022

It was an idea born of frustration, or at least that’s how Charles Babbage would later recall the events of the summer of 1821. Byron was not allowed to attend university due to her sex, but her mother supported her academic interests. It opened with a historical introduction about Babbage, his machines, and his legacy.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. The same basic ideas could work on the electrical grid, too. The situation is unlikely to get better anytime soon, for three reasons.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2022

Then, in 2003, the first sequence was announced, of about 92 percent of a human genome. And I mean, basically, David and I and Webb got together and we had a very quick series of exchanges where we basically took the theoretical idea and distilled it down to its essence. Just 25 years ago, the human genome was still largely a mystery.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). From this perspective, what makes robot funerals unnerving is the idea of an emotional slippery slope.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. I love the idea of powering my car from solar power.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Munger, the 85-year-old vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is a curmudgeon who frowns on most investment ideas. "When I call Charlie with an idea," Buffett tells me, "and he says, That is really a dumb idea, that means we should put 100% of our net worth into it. The day after Fortunes visit to BYD, Oregon Gov.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

John Cioffi Employer Stanford Title Professor of electrical engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma maters University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford “That memory always stayed in the back of my mind,” Cioffi says. “As He had always been interested in pushing the boundaries of what was possible based on mathematical equations.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Some answers on consumer expectations and daily performance should come out of evaluations of the prototypes to be conducted at the Irvine and Berkeley campuses of the University of California that will begin later this month.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The idea is that when your car needs more energy, you can drive your car into a station and, like an automated car wash, your depleted battery is replaced robotically by one that has a full charge. Maybe you should ask some engineers at the local power utility before you go shooting your mouth off, decrying how the idea will never fly.

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