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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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The international geothermal power industry is poised to place between 500 and 1,000 MW on line per year for the rest of the decade, said GEA. New geothermal power came on line in Kenya, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Turkey, and Mexico, as well as Oregon, Nevada and Utah in the United States. Ormat Technologies, and AltaRock Energy.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He was a member of several committees at conferences including the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting , the International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials , and the International Technical Conference on Circuits/ Systems, Computers, and Communications. He volunteered on projects in Guatemala and Honduras.

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Facebook Steps Toward Cryptocurrencies

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The limited pilot will be restricted to 200,000 users in the US and Guatemala. But Novi seems unlikely to be able to capitalize on that value, as it has committed to charging zero fees for international transfers. And remittances are an obvious starting point, she adds.

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This 6-Million-Dollar AI Changes Accents as You Speak

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Stanford University prides itself on its international diversity, touting that today's undergraduates hail from 70 countries. They dedicated their empty pandemic hours to building a solution. "We School just isn't fulfilling when you aren't physically there, and we had a lot of time on our hands."

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