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U.S. Mint Honors Game Developer Ralph Baer

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The New Hampshire American Innovation coin, which recognizes the first in-home video game console, mimics an arcade token. On the other side, the words New Hampshire and Player 1 are engraved on a stamped background. Baer's Brown Box on display at the Innovation Wing at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.

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NEESC releases 2015 hydrogen & fuel cell development plans for eight Northeastern states; power generation and transportation

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million ZEVs between 2018 and 2025, 1.24 New Hampshire. New Jersey. Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster (NEESC) is a network of industry, academic, government and non-governmental leaders working together to provide energy storage solutions. Earlier post.). State plan. 54 to 73 MW. Massachusetts.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. He closed the business in 2018. He was a trustee of Randolph-Macon Woman's College , in Lynchburg, Va. Johnson served in the U.S.

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Backcountry Skiing Is Booming in the Northeast. But Can It Survive?

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Early last February, at the Mount Washington Backcountry Ski Festival in New Hampshire, the organizers faced an increasingly common problem: Terrible snow. New Englanders accounted for nearly 4 percent of the total number of skiers, according to the group’s participation study.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. They are looking at cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation and industry.

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