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Engine Alliance Completes 100th GP7200 Engine; Specific Fuel Consumption Improvement Noted

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In recognition of the GP7200’s demonstrated fuel performance on the A380, Airbus recently revised the performance handbook, or “Orange Book”, to reflect a 0.5% The Orange Book is frequently used by prospective aircraft purchasers as a predictor of aircraft performance.

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Mattershift scales up CNT membranes; potential for zero-carbon fuels for less than fossil

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The company has already booked its first sales and will ship products later this year for use in a seawater desalination process that uses the least amount of energy ever demonstrated at pilot scale. He has co-edited 5 books on these topics. He has written 65 refereed publications, 3 patents, and 2 book chapters.

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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. Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut.

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Twitter Files part 14 sheds light on “Russian bots” and #ReleaseTheMemo

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Taibbi, who was given access to the internal documents at Twitter by Elon Musk, released a new installment on Thursday. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal also wrote a letter. The Twitter Files part 14, written by independent journalist, Matt Taibbi, shed light on a false narrative of Russian bots and the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo.

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