article thumbnail

Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

Cars That Think

Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He was IEEE secretary in 2000. He taught at the university until he retired in 2000. For his work in the field, he was named the first recipient of the IEEE Dennis J.

France 98
article thumbnail

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

Green Car Congress

2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study. The researchers also mapped local emissions in 5,695 US cities, finding the highest emissions-related mortality rate in Baltimore, where 130 out of every 100,000 residents likely die in a given year due to long-term exposure to air pollution. related and ?2,000

MIT 378
article thumbnail

10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

Green Car Congress

Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St. μg PM 2.5 /m parts per billion (ppb) NO x. For each 5 μg PM 2.5 /m m 3 increase, coronary calcium progressed by 4.1 Agatston units per year (95% CI 1.4–6.8)

Pollution 199
article thumbnail

PJM/Better Place study finds unmanaged charging of 1M electric cars could add $750M in annual wholesale energy costs; need for CNO-managed smart charging

Green Car Congress

The study considered a distribution of 1 million EVs in the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area and modeled the impact of charging the EV batteries in three scenarios: unmanaged charging; consumer-price-incentivized charging; and managed charging via a Central Network Operator (CNO). exceeding $75k.

Charging 225
article thumbnail

Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

Cars That Think

also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. Along with his wife of 72 years, in 2000 Moore established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , which has donated more than US $5.1 After earning his Ph.D.,

Baltimore 103
article thumbnail

Automobile Information manage providers, ranked through general OEM automobile portions gross sales

Baua Electric

Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 726-2462 Swamy Kotagiri (CEO) $18,920 ( f ) $16,671 ( f ) $37,840 ( f ) $36,242 ( f ) Frame buildings, exteriors, powertrain, electronics, mechatronics, mirrors, lighting fixtures, seating, whole automobile production Northville, MI, USA (734) 855-2600 Martin Fischer (president & member board of control) $12,000 $10,454 (..)

article thumbnail

10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

Green Car Congress

Maglev 2000 of Florida Corporation to establish the feasibility of a superconducting electrodynamics suspension (repulsive force) technology. FTA funded five projects under the UML program: The General Atomics Urban Maglev Project (General Atomics, San Diego, CA as the lead company) to develop a system based on permanent magnets.

Available 170