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Cummins introduces 5L V8 diesel for North American light- and medium-duty commercial vehicles

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a new 5-liter V8 diesel engine designed to power pickup-and-delivery vehicles, other light- and medium-duty trucks, school buses and motorhomes. will be manufactured at the Columbus Engine Plant, with production to start during the fourth quarter of 2014. The new ISV 5.0 Click to enlarge. Cummins Inc. introduced the ISV5.0,

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US DOE awards nearly $7M for cost analyses to advance fuel cell and hydrogen storage systems research

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Cost analyses are conducted by designing the system and conceptualizing its manufacturing process, selecting manufacturing equipment, determining labor and energy, and obtaining prices for materials and manufacturing equipment. Battelle Memorial Institute – Columbus, OH – up to $2 million.

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Intel Invests $20-billion in Ohio for Advanced Fabs

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Intel announced today that it will build two leading edge logic fabs east of Columbus at a cost of $20 billion. The latter will allow for smaller, more efficient transistors with a degree of design flexibility that can't be achieved using today's FinFET devices. Intel has chosen to expand its advanced manufacturing in a U.S.

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DOE Announces $528.7M Conditional Loan for Fisker Automotive for PHEVs

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million ATVM loan for engineering integration costs as it works with primarily US suppliers to complete the company’s first vehicle, the Fisker Karma. Engineers will also design tools and equipment and develop manufacturing processes. In the first stage of the program, Fisker Automotive will use a $169.3 Earlier post.)

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. One of his favorites, from an essay, he penned in 1932 about the design and engineering of fabrics and clothing, was the duck: “I have always envied the duck. He can dive under water and come up dry.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). The project will be designed with an innovative smart grid control system to improve grid reliability and enable the integration of wind and other intermittent renewable energy sources.