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Remembering Ross Stone, an Influential Leader of IEEE Technical Activities

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He was president of Stoneware , a business he founded in San Diego that provided consulting and expert witness services related to antennas, propagation, and telecommunications. Communications and patent law expert Stone received a bachelor’s degree in 1967 in earth sciences from the University of California, San Diego.

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Aptera and EVE Energy partner for 21700 NMC battery cells

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Aptera has announced that they will be using EVE Energy batteries in their upcoming production car, and the batteries will be produced in San Diego. What do you think of the article? Specifically, Aptera has chosen to use EVE’s 21700 NMC 811 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries in its structural battery packs.

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “China’s Green Winter Olympics.”.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, Palmisano wanted to expand IBM's IT services business to Chinese corporations and government agencies. Despite this initial dominance, by 1986 the IBM PC was becoming an also-ran. in the late 1970s.

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Researchers boost performance of lithium-rich cathode material 30-40% by creating oxygen vacancies

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Image courtesy of Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion, UC San Diego. After the GSIR process, the general morphology of the GSIR LR-NCM was the same as the pristine LR-NCM. —Shirley Meng, nanoengineering professor at the University of California San Diego and one of the principal investigators.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., A February 2008 analysis by Maximillian Auffhammer (University of California, Berkeley) and Richard Carson (University of California, San Diego), pegged annual growth and associated emissions increases at 11% or more. Earlier post.)

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

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