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Electric cars are cleaner than gasoline ones in 95% of the world, study finds

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Electric cars are in fact cleaner than gasoline cars in 95% of the world, according to a joint study by the Universities of Cambridge, Exeter, and Nijmegen (via BBC News). The only.

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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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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.

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President Obama announces nearly $4B public-private investment in energy upgrades to buildings; $2B government commitment

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In addition, 60 CEOs, mayors, university presidents, and labor leaders committed to invest nearly $2 billion of private capital into energy efficiency projects; and to upgrade energy performance by a minimum of 20% by 2020 in 1.6

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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. The following year he became the first professor of physical chemistry at the University of Sheffield. He also worked with BBC television to broadcast the Christmas Lectures.

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Peridot could be new key to hydrogen production

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This simple method could provide a copious supply of hydrogen gas, according to the BBC. Researchers at the University of Lyon used the mineral olivine ([.]. Scientist have found a new way to produce hydrogen fuel for use in fuel cell vehicles; using rocks to split the hydrogen from water molecules. Hydrogen cars'

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Hydrogen hope for aviation industry

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Scientists from Glasgow University are using nanotechnology to find a way to store the gas in a solid state, according to the BBC. Working in collaboration with EADS Innovation Works, the university hopes to overcome the major hurdles currently [.].

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Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor

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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.