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EVgo launches grid-tied public fast charging system with second-life batteries

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In addition to reducing curtailment of solar or wind power, a benefit to all grid users, EVgo is also commercially demonstrating the reuse of EV batteries for grid benefit. —Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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His choice of subject for his master’s thesis, though, marked one of the first times he would sail against the prevailing technical winds. Austin, Texas. Editor’s note: Lotfi Zadeh died in 2017 at the age of 96. MIT, it turned out, was an easy ride after the demanding course work Zadeh had faced in Tehran.

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Mattershift scales up CNT membranes; potential for zero-carbon fuels for less than fossil

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Freeman, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin. An example of a simplified schematic for converting atmospheric carbon dioxide, water, and solar or wind electricity into ethanol, gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. A great many types of gates are possible, and many have already been demonstrated in laboratories around the world.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources. Build the damn cars and watch us change our habits.

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