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ABS provides first approval in principle for floating Rankine cycle renewable energy plant

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Marine classification society ABS has issued its first Approval in Principle (AIP) for a new concept renewable energy design in which a moored spar uses ammonia in a closed-cycle process to produce electrical power for a commercial utility grid. OTEC power cycle. Click to enlarge.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Two years later, he published a paper in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society , demonstrating two fundamental statistical concepts still heavily used in the field today. he helped develop the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) , the first U.S. He was promoted the following year to superintending statistician.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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One way teachers are trying to help students grasp difficult concepts is through virtual-reality technology. In the chemistry module on acids and bases, for example, students are shown a computer-generated version of a wastewater-treatment plant in Baltimore, and they try to make chemically contaminated water safe to drink.

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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

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While maglev trains are in use throughout the world, those systems are primarily high-speed test environment systems where speeds reach in excess of 250 miles per hour. Similarly, certain design concepts allow for the same magnets on board the vehicle which supply levitation to be used concurrently for guidance. MagneMotion, Inc.

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Aligning the Eyes of the Universe Machine

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None of that technology really existed in 2001, so we started from the ground up with concepts and simple experiments. Then more complicated, very complicated experiments and eventually something known as TRL 6 technology—Technology Readiness Level 6—which demonstrated that we could do this in a flight-like environment.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Birth of OSI In the meantime, work was underway on a broader approach to the challenge of creating standards for computer communication — one that could serve to link up different computer networks, a concept that began at this time to be called “internetworking.”

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