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PG&E, Calif. Energy Commission launch 4MW sodium-sulfur grid storage pilot in San Jose

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The system has a 4 megawatt capacity, and can store more than six hours of energy. S&C Electric Company is the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the project and supplied the storage management system and power conversion equipment that control the battery’s AC input/output and its interface with the electric grid.

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Rivian introduces two quad-motor, AWD “Electric Adventure Vehicles”

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This means having great driving dynamics on any surface on- or off-road, providing cargo solutions to easily store any type of gear, whether it’s a surf board or a fishing rod and, very importantly, being capable of driving long distances on a single charge. —Executive Director of Engineering and Programs Mark Vinnels.

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Sprig Electric pairs Tesla Powerpack with rooftop PV system

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The pairing, installed by Sprig Electric at their corporate headquarters in San Jose, will cut the building’s total energy costs by 80-95%. Customers can use the battery’s stored electricity to reduce peak demand. They then discharge their stored power when demand is high and the rates are high. MWh of energy and saved 4.94

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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The chip, he predicted, would reach beyond the utilitarian line of microprocessors into equipment for the high-level engineering and scientific research communities. “We And because this very novel idea came out of the engineering group, Yu told Spectrum, he found some Intel executives hesitant. Sun Micro Systems Inc., were up to.

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Stuart Parkin Revolutionized Disk Drive Storage

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For massive datasets to be of use, they must be stored somehow. Spintronics can make them more energy-efficient, faster to access data, or capable of storing huge amounts of information. Most of that time was spent at the company’s famed Almaden research laboratory, in San Jose, Calif. award for the discipline.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., By using in-house integrated-circuit-fabrication facilities for prototyping, the engineers had cut the design time for each chip to less than nine months, and they had designed and built five prototype computers for the show in less than five weeks.

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Perspective: Europeans in the lead with range extenders for hybrid vehicles; 2nd vs. 3rd generation

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In addition, these pure electric vehicles are often used where a conventional engine is banned as on lakes and indoors or where it is impracticable as with underwater vehicles. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November. Small vehicles rarely need to travel long distances.

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