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Elon Musk will not build personal airport near Austin

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk dismissed rumors that he would build a private airport in Austin, Texas, today, after reports circulated last week. Musk was rumored to be building an airport for personal use somewhere east of Austin, near the town of Bastrop. “Tesla is 5 mins from Austin International airport. ” Not true.

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Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

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At CES, Toyota revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future on a 175-acre (0.71 Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city’s infrastructure. km 2 ) site at the base of Mt.

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Hyundai opening R&D and Lab Center in Montana to design and build Ultimate Mobility Vehicles

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End-user/commercial production and smart assembly. The Industry Building that will house NHS Bozeman will break ground starting in June 2022, while the first R&D office officially opens in June 2022. Market research and assessment. Testing operations. Composted material development and testing. Next-generation vehicle architectures.

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This startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings

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Aeromine, launched in 2022, makes compact 50 kW or larger “wind harvesting platforms” that it mounts on the edge of a building’s roof. The rooftop wind units, which have no external moving parts or blades, capture wind flowing up and over the building and convert it into onsite electricity. Specs are here.) Get started here. –ad*

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Norway just signed a contract for its first commercial offshore wind farm

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Norway has signed a contract with Ventyr Energi to develop Sørlige Nordsjø 2, its first commercial offshore wind farm. Read more: This ‘spider’ crane enables an offshore wind turbine to virtually build itself To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system.

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EPFL solar hydrogen system co-generates heat and oxygen

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The hydrogen production rate achieved in this work represents a really encouraging step towards the commercial realization of this technology. The work builds on preliminary research demonstrating the concept on the laboratory scale, using LRESE’s high-flux solar simulator, which was published in Nature Energy in 2019.

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