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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Remote sensing technologies to tackle earth science problems In 1980 Crawford joined the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin, staying for 25 years.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. Austin, Texas. was the first to apply fuzzy theory to a consumer product, a shower head that controlled water temperature, in 1987. Editor’s note: Lotfi Zadeh died in 2017 at the age of 96.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Alone, the federal government plans to purchase more than 500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) or EVs in fiscal year 2017. University of Texas at Austin. Eugene Water & Electric Board. potential longer-term innovations including evolution up to 350 kilowatt (kW) fast charging. Municipal fleet electrification. Con Edison.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. I personally wouldn’t count on the “Big Three&# actually implementing any of these new technologies in the near future.

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