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Ford and Georgia Tech partner on hydraulic hybrid school bus conversion

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Atlanta Public Schools (APS) donated the bus for the project. Conducted by Georgia Tech, the project is financed by a $50,000 Ford College Community Challenge Grant, one of five given annually for a student-led project that matches university resources with an urgent community need related to sustainability.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. DeKalb County’s DeKalb County/Metropolitan Atlanta Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicle Project. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. Total DOE award: $14,994,183.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. Williams was granted 27 U.S. He was granted 15 patents.

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Drive Electric Week event organizers reminisce

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One of my favorite NDEW stories was from our event, Drive the Future Atlanta, where we had hundreds of diverse, new and used EV drivers and enthusiasts display their vehicles. In addition to brand new EVs, converted ones also arrived and all of them made a parade through the race track before starting the college race competition. .

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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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Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1 Of that, $26.5

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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But it was simple to interface with the computer: the processor just read frequent samples of the potentiometer positioning signals through analog-to-digital converters. also exceeds the rights granted in a November 198S agreement in which Microsoft acknowledged that the displays in Windows 1.0 In March 1989, U.S. Santa Monica, Calif.,

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