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Alliance AutoGas launches 5300-mile, 12-city Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride with converted F-150

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The converted F-150 will travel across the country from Kansas City to Seattle, WA, and back through the US, stopping along the way, to complete its journey in Jacksonville, FL, on 18 May, followed by a Homecoming event in Asheville, NC, on 23 May. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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WHYY reports Philadelphia’s Proterra electric bus fleet sidelined due to cracked chassis and other defects

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But internal communications, obtained by WHYY’s PlanPhilly through a right-to-know request, reveal the incident shook SEPTA’s top executives and triggered a serious reevaluation of its plans to convert more of its fleet to electric power. Proponents, like engineering professor Jeremy J.

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DOE launches wave energy competition

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Marine and hydrokinetic energy technologies convert the energy of waves, tides, and river and ocean currents into electricity. DOE announced the Wave Energy Prize at the International Marine Renewable Energy Conference co-located at the National Hydropower Association Annual Conference. Van Buren Township, Michigan.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. Global solar energy supplies are growing rapidly, with nearly 10 times as much solar capacity installed today as there was a decade ago. The first utility-scale solar-thermal plants were built in the 1980s.

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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Like a gearbox converts from one speed and torque value to another, power electronics can convert from one power and voltage level to another.” These power electronic converters will be key in managing the power between the battery or the solar panels and the main bus.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. Global solar energy supplies are growing rapidly, with nearly 10 times as much solar capacity installed today as there was a decade ago. The first utility-scale solar-thermal plants were built in the 1980s.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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in 1966 in EE from the University of New Mexico , in Albuquerque. Similar to the discrete Fourier transform, the DCT converts a signal or image from the spatial domain (a matrix of pixels) to the frequency domain (in which images are represented by mathematical functions). He received a Ph.D. In the early 1970s, he began working with.