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Arizona’s largest battery will help feed your Google habit

Baua Electric

Photo: Salt River Project Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters. Electrek’s Take Without electricity, Google is nothing, and it uses an insane amount of power. million in tax revenue over 35 years.

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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.

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Chasing Weather Balloons With Software-Defined Radio

Cars That Think

Sonde Monitor can also plot the position of the radiosonde on Google Maps. Weather balloons rise into the stratosphere, with their position dictated by wind movements at different altitudes. Not one person so much as asked me what the heck I was doing! a handy website to design a five-element Yagi antenna for 403 MHz.

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Where to locate public chargers?

Electric Auto Association

Electricity is ubiquitous, EVs refuelable by wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, or traditional energy sources. In contrast, internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles can only refuel at a gas station licensed to handle and store an inflammable liquid. not internet-connected) and networked (internet-connected). Level 3 charging networks.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Green Car Congress

Clean Energy : solar/PV, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biofuels. The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP). devices, personalized medicine, and physician augmentation/telemedicine. This prize and the resulting technology can help bring about an era of personalized medicine.

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First drive in the Maserati Grecale Folgore SUV: Italian luxury is going all-electric and we love it

Baua Electric

I can’t speak to the nav system because Maserati had us use Google Maps from a phone. The laminate windows keep the outside world out, although some wind noise can be heard at higher speeds, which is to be expected. I didn’t see them at first. Here’s the kicker, though: you can’t turn the sound off.