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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” The general idea is really simple,” Schneider says. “A A lot of people have said they also thought of this idea.

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Global Bioenergies to take part in three more H2020 projects; second-, third-generation feedstocks for isobutene production

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Global Bioenergies has been selected in more Horizon 2020 projects funded by the European Union, and will receive for this purpose about €2 million in grants over 4 years. In 2017, Global Bioenergies acquired Syngip, a small Dutch company involved in third-generation processes ( earlier post ).

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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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The new family of anode materials, which the researchers dubbed the Interdigitated Eutectic Alloy (IdEA) anode, also saves time and materials by producing an anode using only two simple steps instead of the multiple steps traditionally required to mass-produce lithium-ion battery anodes. —Professor Arumugam Manthiram. 7b00844.

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Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

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The two found the idea of the Atari game intriguing but thought the execution was terrible. Jens Wolf/picture-alliance/dpa/AP When Baer got the idea for his video-game system in 1966, he was the division manager at the defense contractor Sanders Associates (now part of BAE Systems ) in Nashua, N.H. patent for the game in 1980.

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Tesla Giga Berlin critic finally drops lawsuit over high costs

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One of Tesla Giga Berlin’s critics decided to drop its lawsuit against the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court for granting a provisional building permit to the US automaker. . NABU dropping the lawsuit supports the idea that opposition against Tesla Giga Berlin is declining.

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Swaying toward EV mobility

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We partner with real estate developers, cities, and nonprofits to utilize government clean energy incentives, grants, and other sources of funding,” Peters explained. Attacking the problem The idea for Sway Mobility came in 2017, when Peters was working in sustainability with different neighborhoods in Cleveland. “I

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. He was granted 15 patents. He founded the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives global competition in 2018 to crowdsource ideas that could improve energy access in underserved communities. He managed several magnetic recording projects during his career. patents during his time at IBM.

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