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Audi putting a centralized server solution into test operation in cycle-dependent production; edge solution gets rid of individual PCs

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The server solution makes it possible to level out spikes in demand over the total number of virtualized clients—a more efficient use of resources. We used to have to buy hardware when we wanted to introduce new functions. With Edge Cloud 4 Production, we only buy applications in the form of software. —Henning Löser.

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Genesis And Lucid Rumored To Join Forces On EV

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For example, Lucid is known to be buying a bevy of new parts from Korean suppliers and may simply be testing them nearby. From AutoBlog : We know Hyundai's throwing huge resources at developing in-house platforms and motors, so why would it potentially make a deal with Lucid?

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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

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Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics and senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute. We have assembled a diverse group that I feel sure will develop an excellent, defensible concept. When completed, the working group’s concept will be available and open to anyone who wants to buy or sell carbon.

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Dell’s Bold Idea: A Laptop You Can Actually Repair

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In December 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna , a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability. The motherboard, among the most resource-intensive components, is shaved to a quarter of its typical size. Instead, many components lock into place.

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Rimac Nevera receives EPA and CARB range estimates

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New certifications of the vehicle from the Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resource Board now give the Nevera a new metric: range, and it sits at 287.28 Of course, customers who will end up buying the Nevera will not be super worried about a high-range EV. million price tag. miles of range at a full charge.

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Stanford faculty awarded $2.2M for 9 energy research projects; high-performance batteries, promoting sustainable vehicles, wireless power transfer for moving vehicles

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Seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. The proposed concept could dramatically reduce solar cell manufacturing costs, according to the researchers. million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency. PI: Brian Knutson, psychology.

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Convert Oil Wells to Solve the Solar Storage Problem

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The idea, says Daniel Codd , a researcher in renewable energy systems at the University of California, San Diego, is to store solar-produced heat in rock formations below the surface, creating a solar-charged geothermal resource in which heat is stored for meaningful durations. to test the concept for the first time.

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