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SpaceX bests Boeing to become NASA’s largest for-profit vendor

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Saved by the infusion of resources, SpaceX successfully debuted Falcon 9 in June 2010 and began operational ISS cargo deliveries under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program in October 2012. Crew Dragon completed its first uncrewed orbital test flight in March 2019 and its first crewed test flight in May 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. Thirty years of solar White, a residential architect for 40 of the 50 years he has lived on St. White’s Polaris GEM with added solar panel.

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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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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This year’s Index finds that 2017 marked the first time that a greater portion of California’s power mix came from renewable sources such as wind and solar than it did from fossil fuels.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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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. The semiconductor first established itself commercially in 2000 in the markets for light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers. The Lucid Air has a 900-V system.)

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SpaceX launches Japanese lander, NASA cubesat to the Moon

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It’s not the first time SpaceX has launched a mostly commercial Moon lander, and it won’t be the last. Beresheet failed just a minute or two before touchdown , but the attempt was still a historic step for commercial spaceflight. km) away from Earth. HAKUTO-R weighs closer to 1.1