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Siemens Investing $15M in Israeli Solar Power Company Arava

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Overall, Siemens has concluded a framework agreement to build solar plants with a total output of 40 megawatts (MW). MW at Kibbutz Ketura, in the southern desert of Israel. Arava Power, the Israeli development company, was founded in 2006 and is headquartered at Kibbutz Ketura/Eilat.

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ENFICA-FC Fuel Cell Inter-City Aircraft Ready for Flight Testing

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the objective is that of building an aeroplane that works on hydrogen, taking advantage of the fuel cell technology at present available to create a demonstrator aircraft that is able to connect cities through flights while totally eliminating the environmental impact. The overall cost of the project is €4.5 million (US$6.6 million (US$4.2

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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In each of these approaches, modeling work went far to create the conceptual background for building an artificial pancreas. The next step was to actually build it. In 2006 the JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) started work on a device at several centers in the U.S. and across Europe; in 2008 the U.S.

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BMW Group launches high performance D3 platform: data-driven development for autonomous driving

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The fleet currently numbers around 80 BMW 7 Series cars, which are in operation on the west coast of the USA, in Germany, Israel and China. In autumn 2017 the first group of engineers moved into the new building, which celebrated its official opening in April 2018. The net useable data rate is approx.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. SZ (1) 6753.T

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