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How 5G’s Rollout Rattled Hundreds of Pilots

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In January this year, at least three flights above Tennessee simultaneously experienced altimeter errors that made it “impossible to maintain assigned altitude,” according to one of the pilots. In most, including the Tennessee and Los Angeles incidents above, the reporter referred to 5G interference.

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PHEV Day 164 - 23 March 2009. B-Day Run to Nashville, Tennessee - 47th State Capitol

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Cheers PHEV3A'rs, EVADC'rs, and EVnthusiasts, One & All - From Home Sweet LOCSEC Home of Memphis Mensan, Trisha Nelson, with a charged up "Spirit" and a well rested EVJerr, the EVenture to Nashville began at a leisure pace so as to enjoy the fast-turning-green forest of the Tennessee countryside. See www.CommericalAppeal.com. for 75; 80.0

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The Top 10 EV Battery Makers

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It's a great time to be a battery maker: The world could see 145 million electric vehicles on roads by 2030, versus 10 million in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "Who's Powering the EV Revolution? ". Boomtimes in Batteries. Those cars were stuffed with 134.5

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Palladium/Iron-Platinum Core/Shell Nanoparticle Catalysts Promising for Practical Fuel Cell Applications

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The research team, which includes Brown graduate student and co-author Vismadeb Mazumder and researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, created a five-nanometer palladium (Pd) core and encircled it with a shell consisting of iron and platinum (FePt). Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja1024436.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

Revenge of the Electric Car

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News. By Dana Hull.

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Driving Nissan’s Trial EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

Photo by Antuan Goodwin, from the CNET Article: Test-driving the Nissan EV-02 electric car. This is the same with gas cars, too, but so much energy is wasted with internal combustion that most people don’t care about the loss from extra weight. I got invited to go to Dodger Stadium this afternoon to test drive the Nissan EV.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The Telechron Model Type E master station clock shown at top was used at the Tennessee Valley Authority beginning in the 1930s. According to the incredibly informative website maintained by clock enthusiast Mark Frank, the Type D existed as an internal testing device and never went into production. regulated over 95 percent of all U.S.