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How Automotive Dealerships Can Save Money with Battery Energy Storage

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A BESS is a type of technology that utilizes batteries to store and supply reliable electricity when needed at desired levels and quality. If your energy comes primarily from renewables, the BESS enables you to store that energy for times when renewables may not be available, like at night for when solar panels are inactive.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Sasson , inventor of the device, told The New York Times in 2015. “It Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. Sasson and his colleagues invented a device to take the information stored on the tape and turn it into digital images.

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350 EV charging stations installed under FAME Scheme 

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The Minister of State for Heavy Industries Krishan Pal Gurjar said that under FAME India Scheme (Phase-I and II) when the time it has implemented in April 2015, a total of 3.61 Also, read related article: Electric vehicles sales & charging stations need in India. Let us know more about 350 EV charging stations. .

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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NREL team identifies major metabolic pathway in cyanobacteria for efficient conversion of CO2; better biofuels and bioproducts

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Wei Xiong, Tai-Chi Lee, Sarah Rommelfanger, Erica Gjersing, Melissa Cano, Pin-Ching Maness, Maria Ghirardi & Jianping Yu (2015) “Phosphoketolase pathway contributes to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria” Nature Plants Article number: 15187 doi: 10.1038/nplants.2015.187. 2015.187.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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For a deeper dive into Pong ’s design, see Hugo Holden’s article, “ Atari Pong E Circuit Analysis & Lawn Tennis: Building a Digital Video Game with 74 Series TTL IC’s ,” Dan Boris’s redraw of the circuit diagram , and Ricardo Ramos’s account of building a Pong clone.). In 2015, the Strong National Museum of Play , in Rochester, N.Y.,

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U Waterloo, GM R&D team develops new very high-performance silicon-sulfur-graphene electrode for Li-ion batteries

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Current LIBs [Li-ion battery] systems utilize graphite anodes, where energy is stored by intercalating lithium into the graphite layers. Professor Zhongwei Chen, leader of the Waterloo team, expects to commercialize this technology and expects to see new batteries on the market within the next year.

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