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UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

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But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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Which States Have the Lowest and Highest Ratio of BEVs to DC Fast Chargers?

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DCFCs have been deployed, often from available grant programs and networks wanting to have at least a minimum presence in the state. For the District of Columbia, most EV drivers live in the surrounding states of Virginia and Maryland, and will charge at home or at fast charging stations in those states.

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New high-performance cathode materials for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells

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The power density of a commercialized low-temperature SOFC system developed by researchers at the University of Maryland and Redox Power is also more than 2W cm -2 , earlier post.). Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 2426 doi: 10.1038/srep02426. 2 at 600°C. x Fe x O 5+?. Fuel Cells'

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. He was granted 15 patents. He also guided the development of thin-film disk drives, according to his biography on the Engineering and Tech History Wiki. patents during his time at IBM.

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The Electric Purple Snake-Oil Machine

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After more years of tinkering, Tesla perfected his resonance transformer and was granted U.S. In 1951, a Maryland district court ruled against a company named Master Appliances in a libel suit. An abridged version of this article appears in the October 2022 print issue.

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Researchers propose 2nd law of thermodynamics-based process to select and develop microorganisms for optimal biofuel production

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Researchers at the University of Maryland are proposing a new process to isolate and to direct the evolution of microorganisms that convert cellulosic biomass or gaseous CO 2 and H 2 to biofuels such as ethanol, 1-butanol, butane, or hexane (among others). —Kohn and Kim. 2015.07.019.