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12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Cryogenic energy storage is a long-term method of storing electricity by cooling air until it liquefies (about –196 °C). Crucially, the air is cooled when electricity is cheaper—at night, for example—and then stored until electricity demand peaks. 3-Nanometer Chips Arrive.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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production facilities, in Matamoros, Mexico, and in Taiwan, and patents surface-wave intermediate-frequency filter. In 1991, Lucky-Goldstar, now known as LG, purchased 5 percent of the company. In 1995, LG purchased a majority share. Zenith opens its first non-U.S. Editor’s note: Zenith’s last year of profitability was 1988.

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Testing the Rowwet electric scooter : Eleq

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The company has also purchased the dies for some of the models, so that they can start panel moulding here itself. The cells are being imported from Taiwan and assembled by a Tathawade based vendor. So each of them can store about 0.15 More than Rs. 20 cr has been invested in the project. This battery weighs about 30 kg.

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Adgero signs €3.5M deal with ultracap manufacturer Skeleton for road freight KERS

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During braking, the unit becomes a generator, recovering kinetic energy that would otherwise be lost as heat and storing it in the ultra-capacitors. Under the deal for 2016 and 2017 Adgero will purchase hundreds of SkelMod units in a deal worth approximately €3.5