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SpaceX set to launch Japanese Moon lander, NASA ice surveyor cubesat

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The lander is made by several commercial partners: ispace has provided most of its design and structures, but Europe’s ArianeGroup supplied all of HAKUTO-R’s engines, plumbing, and propulsion hardware and was responsible for most of the final assembly process.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Here, the story of the lithium-ion battery’s journey to commercialization gets hazy.

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California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

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California has already cut anthropogenic black carbon emissions by more than 90% since the 1960s, and existing measures are projected to cut mobile source emissions by 75% and total anthropogenic emissions by nearly 60% between 2000 and 2020.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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He has been loyal to this brand since 2014, when it became the first commercial EV introduced on the Virgin Islands by Nissan Saint Thomas USVI , also known as Drive Electric VI. In 2000, “I decided my next car would be an EV when there was really nothing on the market,” White continued. “I I had a Mini Moke from British Motor Works.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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But it was Kim and his colleagues at Fairchild who realized the first CCD devices that evolved into commercial products widely used in digital photography, radiography, and astronomy. His i3system develops sophisticated infrared image sensors for both defense and commercial markets. Smith and Willard Boyle at Bell Laboratories.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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Basically, the input AC voltage is converted to DC, and then that DC is “chopped” into a high-frequency alternating-current square wave. SiC Leads GaN in Power Conversion Today… The first commercially viable SiC transistor that was superior to silicon was introduced by Cree (now Wolfspeed) in 2011.

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