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Universal Hydrogen successfully completes first flight of hydrogen fuel cell powered regional airliner

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Universal Hydrogen has flown a 40-passenger regional airliner using hydrogen fuel cell propulsion. In this first test flight, one of the airplane’s turbine engines was replaced with Universal Hydrogen’s fuel cell-electric, megawatt-class powertrain. The other remained a conventional engine for safety of flight.

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Top 5 electric vehicles books you must read

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Top 5 electric vehicles books you must read. Today in this article we have bought some best electric vehicles books for you to read and gain more knowledge about electric vehicles. Let us now look for the Top 5 electric vehicles books that you must read. . Top 5 electric vehicles books. Electric and Hybrid Vehicles.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. students from European universities to help them transform their research into marketable products and solutions. In our conversations, Roberto truly shined. The organization supports Ph.D.

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Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

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Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. Dr. Sargent said he developed the idea from reading about the emergence of life on Earth, both in primary literature and popular science books.

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Taming the Climate Is Far Harder Than Getting People to the Moon

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In his 1949 book The Concept of Mind , Gilbert Ryle, an English philosopher, introduced the term “category mistake.” He gave the example of a visitor to the University of Oxford who sees colleges and a splendid library and then asks, “But where is the university?”

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Travel Advisers: When to Let a Professional Plan Your Trip

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Since then, the internet has turned most of us into our own travel agents, and artificial intelligence software is making research and self-booking even easier. What can an adviser give me that a booking site can’t? But for some trips, that special insider knowledge can still make a big difference. Here are some tips.

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Education Week Spotlights Programs for Students and Professionals

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EDT IEEE President and CEO Saifur Rahman kicks off Education Week with a session on how the organization can serve as a vital connection between policymakers and the engineering and technology communities in bringing technological solutions to meet the universal challenge of climate change.