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Keanu Reeves’ motorcycle company ARCH floats idea of building an electric motorcycle

Electrek

But while those bikes have always featured internal combustion engines, the duo behind ARCH recently floated the possibility of adding electric power to their lineup. The post Keanu Reeves’ motorcycle company ARCH floats idea of building an electric motorcycle appeared first on Electrek.

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Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar

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Mindful of concerns about the technical feasibility of robotic in-space assembly of satellites, each an order of magnitude larger than the International Space Station, the Caltech team has been looking at very different approaches to space solar power. We’ve actually demonstrated some of these flexible panels that work at 28 GHz.

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International collaboration develops progressive vision for urban production at the BMW Group; OMA and 3XN

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Urban Production is an international architecture competition organized by the BMW Group in close cooperation with the City of Munich. The new central building is envisaged as a hub at the heart of the plant, with open-plan work areas that link associates and the production technologies.

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Building Better Qubits

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While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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Tesla’s future capabilities in autonomy, chip building are best in industry: expert

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Tesla, for one, is in prime position to dominate the next several years, especially in autonomy and chip building, simply because of what it has been able to accomplish in the past few years. And of course, it’s no longer just about building the electric vehicle. These days, everybody can build electric vehicles.

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NASA awards $247.5M contract to Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to build quieter supersonic aircraft

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NASA has awarded a contract for the design, building and testing of a supersonic aircraft that reduces a sonic boom to a gentle thump. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company was selected for the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration contract, a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract valued at $247.5

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Germany approves €900M for green hydrogen project H2Global

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The aim of the project is to advance the international market ramp-up of green hydrogen and to use double-auction procedures for this purpose. Therefore, we are already starting the international ramp-up of the hydrogen economy and building long-term value creation and supply chains through the H2Global instrument.

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