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Video Friday: GR-1

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Fourier Intelligence has just announced the mass production of their GR-1 humanoid, and they’ve got at least a dozen of them. Fourier Intelligence ] Thanks, Ni Tao! According to data from 2010, around 1.8

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GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

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Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. We have solved that problem by inexpensively transforming the CO 2 into a valuable product. CNTs have 30-fold higher strength than steel or aluminum.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

Cars That Think

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Chevrolet to Produce 10,000 Volts in 2011 and 30,000 in 2012; 50-State Availability 12-18 Months After Launch

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DiSalle also confirmed that the first Volts available for retail sales will be sold in California; Washington, D.C.; Additional markets will be added as production volume increases during the second model year, with Volt available in all 50 states 12 to 18 months after the initial launch. Washington, D.C., Earlier post.).

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Local Motors 3D printing a Strati at NAIAS; announces two micro-factories to open

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A micro-factory is home to additive manufacturing, which uses digital 3D-design data, called Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM), to make a product to exact specifications, without traditional and costly tooling. and one at National Harbor, just outside Washington DC.

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Hanging with EVADC at the Green Fesitival in Washington, DC, 10-11 October 2009

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GREEN FESTIVAL - 10 Great Ways to Experience Washington DC Green Festival – THIS WEEKEND! Get the inside scoop on what’s happening right here in Washington DC region to make our environment healthier and find out how you can get involved at the Community Action Center and Organic Gardening Pavilion. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., Since 2002.

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Greenius Will Meet With Al Gore To Talk Climate Reality

Creative Greenius

When I decided to trade my advocacy pro bono work for the action work I now do at EcoMedia I knew my world was about to change but I wasn’t prepared for the top-to-bottom overhaul in store for me. I have shaken hands with the whirlwind. In fact I’m writing this on my flight back to L.A.

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