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DOE announces $16M for 17 Phase 1 projects in ultra-high temperature materials program; ARPA-E ULTIMATE

Green Car Congress

The total proposed program effort includes development of a coating system consisting of a novel oxidation resistant bond coat compatible with the new Nb-based alloy and a thermal barrier coating for improved durability that can operate at 1700 °C (3092 °F) and a scalable manufacturing process for producing internally cooled gas turbine blades.

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Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes

Cars That Think

Our goal: to listen in on the electrical conversations taking place among thousands of neurons at once in any given thimbleful of brain tissue. It paves the way for future brain-computer interfaces that may enable paralyzed people to communicate at speeds approaching those of normal conversation. Version 2.0 With version 3.0

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

Utility commissioners and their staffs are now dealing with “rising workloads with limited staff, limited resources, and growing gaps in internal expertise due to the increasingly specialized needs of today’s energy system,” states the Rocky Mountain Institute. Nichols projected on the screen, in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” If a page had no uppercase Qs in it, the character generator would economize on internal memory by not generating a pattern for a capital “Q.” Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc. Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E.

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

I’m a bird lover too and a fellow member of the Audubon Society so we had yet another thing in common as we began what turned out to be a lively two hour conversation that went by in a flash. Although there’s been lots of debate about that in our internal committee. Before I left I knew two things. Environmentalists know.

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