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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Cars That Think

Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains. Here are four of the 10 projects.

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DOE awards $25M to improve natural gas operations

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Low-Cost Retrofit Kit for Integral Reciprocating Compressors to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Efficiency. The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. The kit is designed so the batteries can be upgraded to lithium-phosphate.) For a list of conversions completed to date, see Where PHEVs (mostly Priuses) Are.

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MAEAA Web Links

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Micro :Electronics, Kits, Surplus, Online Catalog Cand H Sales Co.: So You want To Build an ElectricCar: Where to begin. An excellent "dirty hands turning the wrenches"kind of guide to building and maintaing a reliable electric car. Nice folks. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters. Alltronics American Science& Surplus B.G.