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Green Deals: Milwaukee M18 FUEL brushless trimmer + edger combo hits $303, more

Electrek

Home Depot is offering the Milwaukee M18 FUEL Brushless String Trimmer Kit with Edger Attachment for $303 shipped. For comparison, it normally goes for $398 and today’s deal marks one of the best prices that we’ve tracked. Milwaukee’s M18 FUEL system delivers gas-like performance without any of the drawbacks.

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NC State team develops new Si/C inverter; 12.1 kW/L & greater efficiency in a smaller, lighter package

Green Car Congress

By way of comparison, a 2010 electric vehicle could achieve only 4.1 The team is presenting two papers on the inverter at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) next week in Milwaukee. The new SiC-based inverter has a power density of 12.1 kW/L—close to the US Department of Energy’s target of 13.4 kW/L by 2020.

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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

Baua Electric

Wangers took it as an indication and attempted his hand working a automobile dealership in Milwaukee. This corporate ran qualified USAC trying out/comparisons for usefulness in advertising — for instance, claims like “Best in Class” for a specific metric in an commercial may well be sponsored up by means of AMCI documentation.

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Lifecycle study finds that environmental impacts of silicon-anode Li-ion battery could be roughly comparable with conventional Li-ion battery

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For the study, the UW-Milwaukee team selected the metal-assisted chemical etching method for the SiNW synthesis due to its simplicity, low cost, and scalable advantages. A conventional battery pack using graphite anode with the same capacity was the a basis for comparison of the life cycle impact results. Credit: ACS, Li et al.

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