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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

Cars That Think

To celebrate the half-century persistence of Pong , I set out to discover why so many people love the most boring video game of all time. The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. Pong , I set out to discover why so many people love the most boring video game of all time.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

EV Match

3 New Community Electric Vehicle Chargers in Chicago. It is exciting to see the variety and affordability of electric vehicles growing at the rate that they are, but we know it’s not enough. That’s why part of our mission at EVmatch is to make charging easy, reliable, and accessible to all. Illinois is all in.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. Given the rapid uptake of electric vehicles, many people are thinking hard about how to make the best use of all that rolling battery power. This is good for the grid.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

It’s all happening excruciatingly too slowly of course, and at the pace we’re currently on we are quite simply as doomed as doomed can be – but in the meantime it IS starting to happen and the first signs of momentum are now starting to show. Or waiting for do-nothing local governments to do the right thing.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

In July, the DOE announced that ARPA-E had received approximately 3,500 submissions for the approximately $150 million available as part of the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000065) released 27 April 2009. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. Earlier post.)

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