Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 Wave rotor technology has been explored since 1906, although its first significant application was in 1940 by Brown Boveri Company (BBC, today ABB) which used it as a high pressure stage for a gas turbine locomotive engine. Source: MSU. Click to enlarge.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The surge of interest in retrocomputing has led to folks once again swapping tips on how to write polished games using the 6502 assembly code, with new titles being released for the Atari , BBC Micro , and other machines. Bill Mensch: I went to Temple University [in Philadelphia] on the recommendation of a guidance counselor.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
In a December 2019 Wired magazine interview, Jerome Pesenti, Facebook's Vice President of AI, suggested that even for a company with pockets as deep as Facebook's, this would be financially unsustainable: When you scale deep learning, it tends to behave better and to be able to solve a broader task in a better way.
Cars That Think
MAY 21, 2022
Wires also challenge electric utilities: These companies must take pains to boost the voltage they apply to their transmission cables to very high values to avoid dissipating most of the power along the way. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of safe laser power beaming prior to our team’s effort was by the company.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 1, 2023
He saw this scheme chiefly as a way for companies to smooth out the volatility of sales and make their business more predictable. A Second Pillar Elias Stein Pillar 2 involves Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud-computing company. But Amazon/AWS could offer a form of partnership with some or all of these big companies.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
About $750 million is needed for near-term Volt development, according to the company. Short sighted company with a CEO that should have been fired long ago. the viability of GM as a company. They are evidently conspiring with the oil companies otherwise why else would they destroy the EV1s. rolls toward bankruptcy.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# but not all of it.
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