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Aura Systems and Cyclone Power Technologies partner for renewable power generation

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Aura Systems, Inc. The partners anticipate that the integrated renewable power generation system will be able to provide a turn-key distributed solution for customers looking to produce grid-tied or stand-alone electricity from renewable and waste resources. and Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc.

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Finland’s oldest ferry goes all electric with Visedo

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The Föri initially entered service in 1904, after the City of Turku commissioned local shipyards Aktiebolaget Vulcan to build a city commuter ferry to take passengers across the Aura River to Åbo. Mobimar oversaw the removal of the boat’s diesel-powered hydraulic motor and the old control system.

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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And so we use copper to move electric power around the vehicle, to move electric power around the energy system in the transmission grid. Strickland: Okay, and so you mentioned that you are finding the auras that you were hoping to find in Quebec. And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well.

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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 reaches orbit

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As depicted above, the international Afternoon Constellation includes OCO-2, GCOM-W1, Aqua, CALIPSO, CloudSat, PARASOL, and Aura. GCOM-W1, Aqua, CALIPSO, CloudSat, and Aura are currently on orbit. Level 3 - Monthly gridded global maps of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. Although an electric range of 10 miles may not sound too impressive, the more frequently a battery is fully discharged during normal operation, and subsequently recharged from the grid, the faster the consumer sees a return on their battery investment.

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

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In 1974 the laser printer first became available outside PARC when a small group of PARC researchers under John Ellenby—who built the Alto II, a production-line version of the Alto, and who is now vice president of development at Grid Systems Corp., Xerox PARC had this aura of being a very far-out place. Mountain View, Calif.—began

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