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Virginia Tech researchers develop high-energy-density sugar “biobattery”, an enzymatic fuel cell

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A Virginia Tech research team led by Dr. Y.H. We are releasing all electron charges stored in the sugar solution slowly step-by-step by using an enzyme cascade. Percival Zhang (2014) “A high-energy-density sugar biobattery based on a synthetic enzymatic pathway,” Nature Communications 5, Article number: 3026 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4026.

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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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IKEA plans to increase the number of ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet car chargers in its US stores. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US. IKEA Joins Hands With Electrify America.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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The second instrument was a highly experimental Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) designed by Virginia T. The satellite then transmitted the signal to a ground station; if no station was within range, it stored the data on magnetic tape for later transmission. Everyone assumed the camera would be the workhorse of the mission.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Alec Brooks The automaker later entered an R&D partnership with Fermata Energy , a Virginia-based company that develops bidirectional EV power systems.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Joyce Bodoh , director of energy solutions and clean energy for Virginia’s Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC), a utility distributor in central Virginia, says that “REC leadership is really, really supportive of electrification, energy efficiency, and electric transportation.”

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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A normally functioning pancreas recognizes the incoming sugar rush and secretes insulin to allow the body's cells to absorb it so that it can be used as energy or stored for such use later on. William Clarke/University of Virginia. In 2007, our group at the University of Virginia proposed using computer-simulation experiments instead.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. In the 1960s, the software for the Apollo guidance computer was stored in a woven substrate called core rope memory.

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