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RPI Doctoral Student Develops New Graphene Material with 14% Wt. Hydrogen Storage Capacity

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Javad Rafiee, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new graphene material for storing hydrogen at room temperature. Rafiee is from Tehran, Iran, and expects to earn his doctorate in 2011.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. From selling makeup to becoming an engineer. He ended up as a refugee in Madrid.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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It was founded in 1987 by a former People's Liberation Army officer and Party member and got its start reverse engineering telephone switching equipment from Hong Kong. search giant stopped Huawei from offering Google-run services, such as Gmail, YouTube and carrying Google's Android app store, Google Play. So the U.S.

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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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emissions are reduced by around 25% relative to the use of gasoline for the same engine efficiency. More than 70% of all NGVs and one-half of all fuelling stations can be found in just five countries: Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil and India. I.e., on an energy basis at the point of use, the CO 2.

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Integrated solar-driven system for electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis for H2 production

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A team from UCLA and colleagues from Tarbiat Modares University and Shahed University in Iran have devised an integrated solar-powered system for both electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis. Now you can make both electricity and fuel with a single device.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Why does everybody state Tesla as US, When this is UK engineering from Norfolk in Great Britian? May I ask what powers the heater?

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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And the next is the Bulgarian virus factory of the early 1990s and the mysterious virus writer, Dark Avenger, who created the first polymorphic virus engine which genetically scrambles, so to speak, the code of every virus, making it very difficult for antivirus software to detect. So I think that lawyers and engineers are at root the same.

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