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Blink Charging Celebrates Women in the Electric Vehicle Industry

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Women if EV hosts regular anual conferences that attract participants from around the world. Since its humble beginnings, the organization has flourished, now boasting over 700 women in leadership positions across the EV industry. The group’s membership includes individuals from the U.S.,

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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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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. Mazda produced 150,000 Comprex diesel cars. Hîrceagã, M.,

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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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At a science conference in September 1947, the prominent chemist Harry Melville stated that specimens with lifetimes of less than a millisecond were far beyond direct physical measurement. As if to prove his point about thermodynamics, Porter wrote and presented a 10-part TV series called “The Laws of Disorder” for the BBC. (He

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We Source: WGBU. Click to enlarge. The >2 Degree Target.

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Scrappage scheme set to be extended

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The popular car scrappage scheme is set to be extended the BBC reports. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson is set to announce a move to extend the scheme in his Labour Party Conference speech. The decision follows campaigns from motor industry bodies including the SMMT and RMIF calling for the scheme to be extended.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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