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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

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However, these field lines from the rotor poles have a tendency to interfere with each other, which reduces the lines, or flux, available to connect to the corresponding stator poles. GE Aerospace declined to make a researcher available to be interviewed for this article.)

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A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

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None take aim at what Kevin Tracey , in an influential 2002 article , termed the “inflammatory reflex,” a neural network that indirectly regulates immune responses to infection and injury through the vagus nerve and its connected organs. Both Galvani and SecondWave expect to announce first-in-human data within the next year.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Her insights greatly helped with this article. Lyft also has rolled out multiple-rider sharing that creates an on-demand carpool.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Xcel president Chris Clark told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that four or five families buying EVs noticeably affects the transformer load in a neighborhood, with a family buying an EV “adding another half of their house.” In the next article in the series, we will look at the complexities of creating an EV charging infrastructure.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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Somehow, in his random connections, Rob accidentally strikes the "master key of electricity," thereby calling forth the Demon of Electricity. The illustration below as well as the book cover at top are from a first edition at the Bakken Museum , in Minneapolis.) She went on to illustrate several more books and short stories for Baum.

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