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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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But you can see, that is the government really coming in and, actually, what has often been a very personal decision of programmers, like, “What language do I use?” Cass: No, it is this idea of interdependence and these very systems that are all coupled in all kinds of ways we don’t expect. They exempted certain areas. Cass: Yeah.

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Two C64s Plus a Pile of Floppy Disks Equals One Accordion

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The idea was intriguing—but would it really work? Now I had several compelling ideas that seemed to work together. The idea to model a musical keyboard layout after the chromatic-button accordion became a standalone C64 program released to the public called. This stores the Qwertuoso program. I’m an experienced.

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Honda unveils Urban EV Concept, production version in 2019; electrified technology for every new model launched in Europe

Green Car Congress

The on-board advanced Honda Automated Network Assistant acts as a personal concierge, which learns from the driver by detecting emotions behind their judgments. Honda also unveiled the Power Manager Concept. The system is designed to incorporate electric vehicles into a smart power grid.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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So datafication is really, I think, quite straightforward in the sense that it’s just kind of trying to capture the idea that all of our daily behaviors and thoughts are being captured and stored as data in a computer or in computers and servers all over the world. Are they the person who has died? Are they people?

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. MB of data.

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The Role of Power Utilities in Turning EVs into a Grid Asset – Part 2

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The same approach can balance the flow of power between chargers at a workplace or destination, where cars are parked for relatively long time periods, to avoid grid overload during peak energy use. When wind and sun are plentiful, excess clean energy can be stored in the batteries of EVs that are parked and connected to smart chargers.

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