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GE VC Firms Announce $200M Open Innovation Challenge to Accelerate Power Grid Technology Through Open Collaboration

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GE announced a $200-million open innovation challenge that seeks breakthrough ideas to create a smarter, cleaner, more efficient electric grid, and accelerate the adoption of more efficient grid technologies. It is open to anyone aged 18 years or older and all legally formed entities.

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

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The air would be cleaner, and people could knock out two birds with one stone, fueling their ride while tending to other necessary chores. Parking lots covered with solar panels is an idea whose time has come. Engineers and legal minds will continue to address the problems keeping such facilities from proliferating.

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

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The idea took shape when the EV momentum was picking up globally. Supporting cleaner alternatives Given the wide variety of automotive parts that the company caters to, a major chunk of their products can be used for other alternative powertrains.

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

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The idea of putting together a PC outside of IBM's development process disturbed some committee members. But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner.

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Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

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She decided to turn her idea into an app. Such apps can’t legally claim to treat or diagnose disease, at least in the United States. If there aren’t legal protections, somebody is going to take this technology and use it for nefarious purposes,” he says. In 2015, Leow realized that a similar pattern might be true for typing.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. California legally should be able to do their own standards under the Clean Air Act. The agencies will make proposals, but legally, they cannot have final action.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc. A joint venture is a legal organization that takes the form of a short term partnership in which the persons jointly undertake a transaction for mutual profit. The SABMF(s) could be manufactured in Lafayette, Louisiana for export.