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How to Build a Power Grid on the Moon

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Batteries lose capacity, and their liquid components freeze, requiring a power-hungry cycle of using much of the power in batteries just to heat themselves. Solar power would be a better solution if it could serve the extremes of the lunar surface.

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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Boston Dynamics ] Power-line perching could be an easy way for urban drones to keep their batteries topped up, but landing on power lines can be tricky. YouTube ] The Apellix Opus X8 Softwash (SW) system cleaning the University of Florida Shands Hospital building in Jacksonville, Florida. CMU RI ].

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. All of the replacements are diesel powered heavy-duty buses that are past their twelve-year life span. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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billion in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce batteries and their components and to expand battery recycling capacity; $500 million in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce electric drive components for vehicles, including electric motors, power electronics, and other drive train components; and. Compact Power, Inc. (on

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