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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams joined IBM in San Jose, Calif., An expert in power electronic converters, electrical machines, and novel grid components, he spent almost his entire career in academia, conducting research in power electronics. Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. San Jose, Calif.,

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Elon Musk wants Tesla Service to fix two-thirds of cars in the same day

Teslarati

According to Autoblog , of the top 5 most common car repairs – oxygen sensor replacement, inspection of loose fuel cap causing engine light, catalytic converter replacement, mass airflow sensor replacement, and spark plug replacement – none of them are even possible on an electric vehicle. What do you think of the article?

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

With biofuels, if you look at the relative efficiency of converting solar energy into biofuel versus solar energy into hydrogen, it’s not even a comparison, it’s ridiculous, it’s 500 times difference. Biological organisms are not great at converting sunlight into energy. Is it worth it to go through all that trouble to get that?

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? edit ] EAA The Electric Auto Association ( EAA ) was formed in 1967 in San Jose, California. Our goal: Get car makers to build Bettah PHEVs than we can convert ourselves. 2008.03.20 - New rechargeit.blogspot.com about PHEVs.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. The New York Times looks at how EVs are going to shake up our cities.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” San Jose, Calif., In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. While a research manager at Intel Corp., You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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