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Argonne’s HyMag technology boosts usable magnetic flux density of permanent magnets by 10-30%

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HyMag significantly increases the usable magnetic flux density of a permanent magnet by 10 to 30 percent, leading to a significant improvement in the energy efficiency of electric motors and wind turbine generators. But for wind turbines, the peak temperature can be up to 300 ?C, —Kaizhong Gao.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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MAN CEO: “impossible” for hydrogen to compete with BEVs

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Whether you find yourself among industry insiders or a group of keyboard warriors on Facebook, odds are you’ll have no trouble finding someone willing to argue that hydrogen, not batteries, will be powering the vehicles of tomorrow. And when we have green hydrogen it will be needed for the heavy industry of steel, cement, or plastic.”

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. In the mid-1950s, 3M advertised its Scotch audio reel-to-reel tape. inch floppy disk.

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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

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Construction has already started on Tesla’s battery factory, where the assembly lines are expected to churn out enough lithium-ion batteries for 500,000 electric cars, according to Fortune magazine , and it should be operating at full capacity by 2020. And the Tesla gigafactory is just the tip of this overall iceberg.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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Vehicle-grid-integration [ 16 ] uses electric vehicles with low power bidirectional chargers to balance an electric smart grid, absorb and redistribute the renewable energy from intermittent sources such as solar and wind. PHEVLERs running on electricity and biofuel are cleaner than conventional vehicles running on fossil fuels. [

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. No, it’s still fresh.

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