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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. From that encounter, Akhtar decided that one day he would develop affordable artificial limbs. The Ability Hand is also water-resistant, Akhtar says. Akhtar is the CEO. "I and a Ph.D.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of Rivian's R1T

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Rivian also plans to offer a more affordable 105-kilowatt-hour pack with a roughly 230-mile range. Slide the track-mounted Camp Kitchen from the Gear Tunnel’s door, and start cookin’, with a two-burner convection cooktop, a sink with a five-gallon water tank and spray faucet, and a 30-piece cookware set from Snow Peak.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The project will evaluate a wider range of applications for lithium-ion batteries that will spur broader demand for the technology, bringing production to a scale that will make this form of large energy storage more affordable. 24,978,264. 53,510,209. Beacon Power Corporation (MA).

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. heating and water purification. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. Chromatin, Inc.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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We design our manufacturing processes to use less water per vehicle than the industry average, and for the third year in a row, we power our Supercharger network with 100 percent renewable energy. So our vehicles are water efficient, energy efficient. We’re improving the affordability of EVs. Yeah, no question.

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