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BP selects Tesla batteries for pilot storage project at US wind farm

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The 212 kW / 840 kWh battery, supplied by Tesla, will be integrated with the wind farm and configured to help manage internal electricity demands of turbines when wind isn’t blowing. BP also has one of the largest operated renewable energy businesses of any major international oil and gas company.

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

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If a page had no uppercase Qs in it, the character generator would economize on internal memory by not generating a pattern for a capital “Q.” Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Palo Alto, Calif., invented it.”

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