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NREL study finds high-pressure hydrogen pipeline system could potentially make hydrogen cost-competitive with gasoline

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An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that a dispensed cost of about $7/kg must be achieved to make FCEVs competitive with gasoline internal combustion engine vehicles in early FCEV markets. —Penev et al.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Nighttime satellite images show that the heart of the continent remains in darkness: electrification rates are less than 5 percent in Chad and the Central African Republic, and the rates remain below 50 percent in such populous countries as Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Sudan. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy. Nevertheless, Article 89 of the GDPR allows them to retain data “for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes" in “the public interest." The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Cortada is also a contributor to IEEE Spectrum , most recently of an article this month entitled " How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market ," and in that sense I'm delighted to call him a colleague. And contrary to its corporate culture, it used off-the-shelf parts and software that the company didn't write.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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My co-founder Chad Vecitis, who’s now our VP of R&D, was a full-time professor at Harvard and actually developed this technology over 10 years ago. O’Connor: That’s part of the innovation—using a carbon-based filter in our system, instead of using traditional filters you’d see in filter presses.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Companies like the Manufacturing Technology Centre are revolutionizing the designs of additive manufactured parts by first building simulation apps from COMSOL models, allowing them to share their analyses with different teams and explore new manufacturing opportunities with their own customers. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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As the molten material cools and solidifies, the component is then subjected to significant thermal gradients, generating significant internal stresses throughout the part. Thomas Watkins; Hassina Bilheux; Ke An; Andrew Payzant; Ryan Dehoff; Chad Duty; William Peter; Craig Blue; and Craig Brice. Simmons, B., and Singh, S.