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GM harvests energy from Torino engine test benches to power facility’s computers

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The idea to put the excess energy to better use fell in line with the company’s sustainability goals. Engineering Center also sends energy from engine testing back to the grid. Since 2008, it has regenerated more than 26.7 Energy efficiency represents an important component of GM’s global production. GM’s Pontiac (Mich.)

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Formula One Rejects Andretti-Cadillac Bid

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Andretti-Cadillac's bid to join the Formula One grid has been officially rejected, confusing plenty of people that thought the team had a good chance of being the first American entrant since Haas. While Ferrari remains competitive, it hasn’t actually won the World Constructors' Championship since 2008. “We

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. Minigrids use distributed off-grid energy solutions that operate independently from the national transmission grid.

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V2H will be a light in darkness when there is sudden power outage

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The study found that after the financial crisis in 2008, the world economy entered a period of low-speed growth adjustment, and the power grid was facing the pressure of sustainable investment. The idea of using buses as the storehouse for batteries sounds great right!

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Volvo Car Corporation, Ericsson and partners in plug-in vehicle smart on-board charging research project

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Using the mobile network, the car then communicates with the grid and sets the charging scheme in order to support optimal utilization of the grid and most favorable energy price. The project concept was first initiated by Viktoria Institute in November 2008 in a meeting with. Göteborg Energi.

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Engineers confirm feasibility of aircraft regenerative braking from landing gear

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We explored a wide variety of ways of harnessing that energy, such as generating electricity from the interaction between copper coils embedded in the runway and magnets attached to the underside of the aircraft, and then feeding the power produced into the local electricity grid. —Professor Paul Stewart, research leader.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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million to four industry and academic teams for additional research into ideas to reduce aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise in aircraft that could enter service between 2030 and 2035. The teams first studied the ideas from October 2008 to April 2010. NASA is awarding $16.5

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