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Peterbilt Launches Model 320 Hydraulic Hybrid, Full Lineup of Natural Gas Powered Vehicles

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Among its other product introductions at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, Peterbilt announced the limited production availability of the Model 320 Hybrid Class 8 refuse truck, equipped with Eaton’s Hydraulic Launch Assist ( HLA ) technology ( earlier post ). The Model 320 Hybrid. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. That choice was, in part, driven by the simple fact that efficient microwave transmitting and receiving equipment was readily available. Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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Although television technology had been in development for decades, and the BBC had been airing live programs since 1929 in the United Kingdom, competing technologies and licensing disputes kept the U.S. RCA president David Sarnoff’s speech at the 1939 World’s Fair was broadcast live. television market from taking off.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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Note that many of these products are made by small manufacturers, so always check availability! Classic CPUs available include the Intel 8088 , the TMS9995 , the RCA 1802 , the 6502 , and the Z80. The PiDP-8: A Miniaturized Minicomputer In 1965, the style was groovy, even when it came to minicomputers.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced

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