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United Natural Foods Installing Air Products Hydrogen Fueling Technology for 65 Fuel Cell Forklifts

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Air Products will supply the hydrogen as well as its compression, storage and two indoor hydrogen dispensing units. Hydrogen fuel cell forklifts are not adversely impacted by temperature or by operating in coolers and freezers, in comparison to traditional battery performance.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

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Two global fulfillment centers—one in Rotterdam and one in Dallas—can ship product to customers within 72 hours. Valence signed a supply agreement in December 2008 and started shipping battery packs shortly afterwards. By comparison, nickel-based Li-ion systems have a cathode voltage of 3.8V. The Maxity, a 7.5

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In the end, Apple got a commitment from Zilog to supply the part, which Mr. Espinosa attributes to the negotiating talents of Mr. Jobs. The reasoning was that expenditure of a Macintosh programmer’s time amounted to little in comparison with a reduction of two minutes in the formatting time. “If

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