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What is Tesla’s Mystery Magnet?

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Tesla’s investor day on 1 March began with a rambling, detailed discourse on energy and the environment before transitioning into a series of mostly predictable announcements and boasts. So if not rare-earth permanent magnets for Tesla’s next motor, then what kind? The problem here is physics, which not even Tesla can alter.

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EPA Proposes New Tougher Ground-Level Ozone Standards

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Ground-level ozone forms when emissions from industrial facilities, power plants, landfills and motor vehicles react in the sun. EPA is also proposing to set a separate “secondary” standard to protect the environment within the range of 7-15 ppm-hours. 2010 in Arlington, Va. and in Houston; and 4 Feb. 2010 in Sacramento.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. Diesel Bus Efficiency Improvements with Thermal Motor Fans: Purchase and install Thermal Motor Fans for diesel buses to improve bus efficiency and lower fuel costs. as well as administrative and dispatch services. Palm Tran, Florida: $320,000. NJ Transit, New Jersey: $250,000.

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Summer Update

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They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA., Irvine, CA.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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One arose at General Motors , which had a strategic goal of using computer-based automation to combat growing competition from abroad. Lynch continued this trade-show-like approach with the TCP/IP Interoperability Conference in Monterey in March 1987 and the 2nd TCP/IP Interoperability Conference in Arlington, Va.,

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. HAGIT MESSER-YARON Tel Aviv University “For contributions to sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.” IEEE FOUNDERS MEDAL Sponsor: Lockheed Martin Corp. IEEE DENNIS J.

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