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Hystar raises $5.9M+ to develop and commercialize its high-efficiency thin-membrane PEM electrolysis tech

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A unique cell design and process architecture offers an opportunity to reduce electricity consumption and increase hydrogen output, significantly lowering the cost of green hydrogen production from PEM electrolysis. —Barnett and Thomassen, 2019. Hystar’s technology makes it possible to have a very much thinner membrane.

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Eliminate fuel vehicles in the UK to enlarge the move

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that the installation of electric car chargers for new buildings in England will be mandatory from 2022. “We will require new homes and buildings to have electric vehicle charging points,” Johnson told the annual conference of the Confederation of Commerce and Industry (CBI).

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S. ARM WRESTLING WITH A BIONIC HAND!?!?!?!

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. No one at Asahi Chemical knew how to build production batteries at commercial scale, nor did the company own the coating or winding equipment needed to manufacture batteries. Marincic charged $30,000 ($83,000 in today’s dollars) to build a batch of the batteries.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starship will take over Starlink launches

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Since dedicated Starlink launches began in May 2019, Musk, COO and President Gwynne Shotwell, and a few other SpaceX officials and executives have made it clear that the company would ultimately transition the task of launching and maintaining the Starlink constellation from Falcon 9 to Starship.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “[I] He received an implant in one eye in 2019 and remembers seeing the shining lights of Christmas trees that holiday season. We just needed to build a device.”. million at $5 per share.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. So it's nearly impossible to get the cost of manufacturing and sales down to a competitive level.

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