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Wärtsilä to begin long-term, full-scale testing of ammonia as marine fuel in four-stroke engine

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million) grant from the Norwegian Research Council through the DEMO 2000 program. This DEMO 2000 project is another stepping stone for reaching our ambitious climate targets and it is also aligned with our recently published hydrogen strategy. The testing is made possible by a NOK 20-million (US$2.1

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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Going with the talent flow

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Resiliency in advocacy When the pandemic started and EVEVA in-person events were curtailed, “I was concerned about how we would keep our community outreach advocacy going,” Baum remarked. He decided to take personal action by joining Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps. There’s no agenda for a particular model car.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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The professor is the recipient of this year’s IEEE John von Neumann Medal for “leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.” She left USC in 2000 to join UCLA and founded the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI In Hollywood

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And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum ‘s most important beats including AI, climate change, and robotics by signing up for one of our free newsletters. First of all, your first example is a person with a brain. And that stopped in about 2000. Bateman: Sure, I do.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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When I got back from Japan in 2000 I didn’t want to start a computer business. In 2000 there couldn’t have been too many old timers in the solar industry. Granted, they’re all known as known as much sunnier places than California. Lillian Light (President of the EPN) arranged something with another person.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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