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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Neutral richii @ Apr 19th 2009 5:28PM @ everyone, I can see what your trying to say, that without gas powered vehicles that a much larger strain will be put on electrical facilities that also contribute to air pollution and degrade our environment. but its never even been close to the amount of garbage that gas power vehicles produce.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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HAGIT MESSER-YARON Tel Aviv University “For contributions to sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google CLAIRE J. CHAN MIT “For pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.”

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Visiting PURE EV factory | Startup Showcase | ETryst electric motorcycle first look

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And then there was a suggestion of connectivity. When I was visiting the Dell server plant in Austin, I found an interesting practice, which can be replicated at Pure EV. How they interact with each other, their environment is as important as the materials science that goes behind building them. All this is linked to a bar code.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle.

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