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Tesla is calling on Powerwall users in TX to demonstrate how they can help support the grid

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Tesla is urging Powerwall owners in Texas to help demonstrate how a fleet of home battery systems can be used to help stabilize the state’s grid. Texas’ grid has gained notoriety due to challenges it faces from the weather, from extreme heat to winter snow and ice storms. .

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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That is, PHEVLERs can store electricity whenever sun and wind-generated electricity is plentiful, and then can send stored power back into the smart grid at times when more electric power is needed. 23 ] Bringing up the throttle on cellulosic ethanol - Ethanol Producer Magazine 16 March 2016. [

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Generally, a multitasking operating system tracks the progress of each of the programs it is running and then stores the entire state of each program—the values of its variables, the location of the program counter, and so on. Elaborate color foldouts in major magazines pictured the Macintosh and members of the design team.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! In addition to the products of Texas Instruments, Atari, and Mattel, he studied his own previous work. “I The succeeding eight locations store eight more pixels from the same eight lines [see figure].

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The BitBlt software enabled application programs to mix and manipulate rectangular arrays of pixel values in on-screen or off-screen memory, or between the two, combining the pixel values and storing the result in the appropriate bit-map location. covering development of the Star. Designing the Star User Interface,’’ [PDF] by David C.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. Taylor’s Alto had a speaker—which played “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” whenever he received an electronic mail message.

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