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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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It refers to materials that superconduct above −195.79 °C, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. For safe flight, future HTS aircraft will need to build in redundant systems to counter the possibility of quenching—the loss of magnetism when an HTS material’s temperature is raised. High temperature” isn’t room temperature.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref. There is nothing special here!”

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Building Human-Robot Relationships Through Music and Dance

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According to the researchers, the FOREST robots and accompanying musical robots are not rigid mimickers of human melody and movement; rather, they exhibit a remarkable level of emotional expression and human-like gesture fluency–what the researchers call “emotional prosody and gesture” to project emotions and build trust.

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New Elon Musk book tells tale of how Tesla Cybertruck started as round and aluminum

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It was a serene time of the week as Tesla had fended off near bankruptcy, three vehicle launches, and, around this time, what Musk called “production hell,” referring to the Model 3 launch. They then started kicking around ideas on how they could make this pickup unique. I want to build something that’s cool.

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Tesla seemingly slips, briefly reiterates that Model 3 will be built in Giga Texas

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Tesla’s initial description for Giga Texas includes a reference to Model 3 production. Even more interestingly, it did not take long before Tesla updated its Manufacturing page to remove references to the Model 3 in its Gigafactory Texas description. Credit: Tesla ). “We’re going to be doing a major factory there.

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With shops, Tekion may just figure out kinks

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TO THE EDITOR: Referring to “Tekion’s big dealership experiment is a big win,” autonews.com, Would possibly 19: Tekion has some superb working options, however its foundation into the marketplace was once untimely and facilitated via a couple of automakers wrongly purchasing idea over latest serve as.

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Tesla is unveiling its new ‘robotaxi’ on August 8

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After the Cybertruck, Tesla has been expected to release two highly anticipated new electric vehicles: a smaller and cheaper electric car, commonly referred to as the “$25,000 Tesla Model 2”; and a new “dedicated robotaxi,” a vehicle designed from the ground up for autonomous driving without any pedals or steering wheel.

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