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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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The habitation unit will be about the same size as the International Space Station , the mining and processing center a bit larger, with a distance of around 10 kilometers between them, Rashkin says. All of the testing and tweaking will take place at Sandia’s Secure Scalable Microgrid Testbed , in Albuquerque. “We

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HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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The ACES results are expected to play an important role in future risk reviews of diesel engines by international and US agencies. The core study was led by Dr. Jacob McDonald, of Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the exposures were carried out.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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California Air Resources Board. PNM Resources. a standard for high performance green buildings that in 2018 will become the basis for the International Green Construction Code. Berkshire Hathaway Energy. ChargePoint. Consumers Energy. Con Edison. Connecticut Green Bank. Dayton Power & Light Company. Duke Energy. National Grid.

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First results from HEI/ACES murine study find few biologic effects from exposure to exhaust from new technology diesel engines

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These results are expected to play an important role in upcoming risk reviews by international and US agencies of older and new technology diesel engines, including a review of the carcinogenicity of diesel exhaust in June, 2012 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France.

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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

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In my research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, I study the brains of one of these larger insects, the dragonfly. Developing these sophisticated systems requires massive amounts of processing power, generally available only to select institutions with the fastest supercomputers and the resources to support them.

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