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AUGUST 24, 2021

in mechanical engineering from University of Minnesota. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "Safety at Scale.". Ganguli was prepared for her role by an educational background that combined mechanical, computer, and electrical engineering. "I

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Projected GHG emissions in Minnesota with different reduction wedges and wedge portfolios, in million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent. The team from the Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Initiative, University of Minnesota examined the potential for policies and technologies to effect GHG reductions across all sectors in the state.

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APRIL 29, 2015

—Ilja Siepmann, a University of Minnesota chemistry professor and director of the DOE-funded Nanoporous Materials Genome Center. Siepmann, University of Minnesota. Earlier post.). Using Mira, we are able to use our computer simulations to compress decades of research in the lab into a total of about a day’s worth of computing.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. We're back with my guest Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute and author of a comprehensive corporate history of IBM.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

A new study by a team from the University of Tennessee, Tsinghua University and the University of Minnesota has found that the wide-scale deployment of electric vehicles in China can increase the Environmental Justice (EJ) challenge in that country. In prior research, we calculated health impacts of PM 2.5

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MAY 8, 2011

In the first empirical study using satellite measurements to explore the relationship between urban form and air pollution, a team from the University of Minnesota has found that cities with highly contiguous built-up areas have, on average, lower concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 , a key component of urban air pollution).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As a result, more than 200 public chargers will be installed at IKEA retail sites in 18 states, including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Xcel Energy in Minnesota, for example, has already started to upgrade distribution transformers because of potential residential EV electrical-load issues. In the next article in the series, we will look at the complexities of creating an EV charging infrastructure. This situation is not true universally.

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APRIL 8, 2009

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es8031067. The TCW, as measured by a state’s EWe and ethanol production (seen in the background), illustrates local and regional ethanol-induced impacts. Credit: ACS.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio. Article ASAP • doi: 10.1021/es8021655 • Publication Date (Web): 11 February 2009 Stone et al. In addition to Stone, Dr. Tracey Holloway, Scot Spak, and Adam Mednick also authored the study.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

“A lot of people were confused by the point-contact transistor,” says Thomas Misa, former director of the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Science and Technology, at the University of Minnesota. This article appears in the December 2022 print issue as “The First Transistor and How it Worked.”.

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JULY 21, 2021

This article is based on excerpts from IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (MIT Press, 2019). An abridged version of this article appears in the August 2021 print issue as “A Tool for Modern Times.". And yet it remained for many IBMers a sad close to the quarter-century chapter of the PC. designed by Victor Lundy.)

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For example, output from the only nickel mine in the US, the Eagle mine in Minnesota, is sent to Canada for smelting. In the next article in the series, we will look at whether the grid can handle tens of millions of EVs. Consequently, the report states that the US “exports the limited raw materials produced today to foreign markets.”

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MARCH 18, 2015

Geiger (2015) “Aqueous proton transfer across single-layer graphene” Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6539 doi: 10.1038/ncomms7539doi. Fulvio, Panchapakesan Ganesh, David J. Wesolowski, Sheng Dai, Adri C. van Duin, Matthew Neurock & Franz M. Fuel Cells Graphene Hydrogen'

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JANUARY 7, 2023

The fight over how to fairly implement EV charging networks in Minnesota is another example of the tricky politics PUCs are involved with. Increasing electricity rates is politically fraught for elected members of public utility commissions.

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AUGUST 6, 2022

I received some great feedback on one of my recent articles from Todd Malan, Chief External. The two companies signed an offtake partnership in January of this year to supply nickel from Talon’s project in central Minnesota. Todd read my article, Automakers are not too happy with Senator Manchin’s EV tax credit.

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