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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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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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Goldman: So there’s a whole suite of different metals that we need, and they each play different roles in the renewable energy system. And so we use copper to move electric power around the vehicle, to move electric power around the energy system in the transmission grid. What’s the end game there?

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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With CAFE’s renewed emphasis on fuel economy, from 26 mpg in 2010 to 35.5 I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. Focus on fuel economy. GM says it is committed to establishing a harmonized national program to improve fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Click to enlarge.

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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., Six months later his initial contract with PARC expired and was not renewed.

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