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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Zap and Helion are part of a renaissance in fusion-energy R&D aimed at achieving practical fusion power using much more modest facilities than the vast International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in southern France, at a cost estimated to be north of US $22 billion by the time it’s completed.

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Mitsubishi Motors running two new MiEV Evolution III electric racers in Pikes Peak Climb

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(Also running in the Electric Modified Division will be a Tesla Roadster from Latvia.). Total motor output of four motors has been boosted from 400 kW to 450 kW and to ensure all the extra power is put down on the road surface the Dunlop tires have been uprated in size from 260/650-18 to 330/680-18 (wheels by Enkei). Earlier post.)

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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Mo-Shing Chen , a world-renowned power engineering educator and researcher, died on 1 May at the age of 91. program in electrical engineering in 1969, and it quickly became one of the nation’s largest and top-rated graduate programs in power systems engineering. as a power engineer in Wulai. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.