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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Tanenbaum went on to serve as president of AT&T’s New Jersey Bell (now part of Verizon ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. Later he helped develop optical fiber and digital telephone switching. Sauer served in the U.S.

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Why Hydrogen power is not the answer

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Pure hydrogen-oxygen flames emit ultraviolet light and with high oxygen mix are nearly invisible to the naked eye, as illustrated by the faint plume of the Space Shuttle Main Engine. The Space Shuttle Main Engine burnt hydrogen with oxygen, producing a nearly invisible flame at full thrust. Not ideal on any airplane.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Whittingham, a young British chemist, joined the quest at Exxon Research and Engineering in New Jersey in the fall of 1972. No one at Asahi Chemical knew how to build production batteries at commercial scale, nor did the company own the coating or winding equipment needed to manufacture batteries.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Genesis G80 EV AWD

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By 2025 it will come out with no new internal combustion engine (ICE) models, then by 2030 will only sell electric cars and SUVs. Genesis invited automotive media to Bentonville, Arkansas, to drive the G80 EV through the winding Ozark Mountain roads. The G80 EV has limited wind and road noise partly due to the low 0.26

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HVDC Networks Come to Europe

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Starting around the middle of 2024, the Shetlands—and also part of mainland Scotland—will be powered by the 443-megawatt Viking wind farm , consisting of 103 wind turbines on the main island of Shetland. According to Plet, wind energy is driving an acceleration of HVDC installations in Europe.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Utrecht, a largely bicycle-propelled city of 350,000 just south of Amsterdam, has become a proving ground for the bidirectional-charging techniques that have the rapt interest of automakers, engineers, city managers, and power utilities the world over. technology-license deal for the first commercial deployment of vehicle-to-grid technology.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

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Hyundai will initially offer the Sonata Plug-in Hybrid in the ZEV states—California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—in 2015. Engine power (kW). Engine torque (N·m). Earlier post.). Sonata models. Sonata HEV. Sonata PHEV.

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