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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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Wave rotor technology has been explored since 1906, although its first significant application was in 1940 by Brown Boveri Company (BBC, today ABB) which used it as a high pressure stage for a gas turbine locomotive engine. Mazda produced 150,000 Comprex diesel cars. Earlier wave rotor implementation were mainly axial flow. Hîrceagã, M.,

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The first conference, “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change”, was held in 2005 at the Met Office in Exeter, and focused on pathways to climate stabilization at or below 2 degrees Celsius. A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5

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

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The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Take for instance the grossly-oversized wheels: a more aerodynamic design would use smaller ones, to minimize turbulence around the opening. It’s called aerodynamics. You must think an F-16 fighter jet is hideous, then.&# No, it’s not aerodynamics.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This “Total Transportation System&# is designed to keep America running when the OPEC countries start admitting empty wells, a certainty the date of which is a CIA secret, determined from space technologies ahead of OPEC themselves! She is an avid runner and hiker, having grown up camping most summers in the Sierra Nevada.

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