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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.

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California Energy Commission awards $750K to Electricore to study standardization of plug-in vehicle batteries

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The stored, compressed air will be used to generate electricity on an “on demand” basis to meet the facility’s needs, including periods of high demand or grid outages. University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure.

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A $275 Bus Ticket to the Hamptons

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Hamptons-bound buses will pick up passengers at only one location in Manhattan: Hudson Yards , the neighborhood of luxury apartment buildings, stores and office towers occupied by technology companies like Meta and financial firms like BlackRock and Point 72.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. Hundreds of thousands of Pong sets were distributed through the department store Sears.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

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There are technical reasons that contributed to faster repairs in Manhattan, but in general the neighborhoods that waited the longest to have their power restored tended to be poorer and less white. This strategy would correct an endemic imbalance that puts greater stressors on less affluent neighborhoods and the electricity vulnerable.

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Researchers Ask: If We Build Walkable Neighborhoods, Will People Walk?

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A team at the University of Alberta (Canada) is studying the factors that influence the decisions made by key stakeholders involved in neighborhood development. What they thought their role was; what facilitated their efforts to build healthy neighbourhoods and what barriers they experienced. Marianne Clark.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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We want to predict where we need to build the next electric charging station.”. This duo, alongside Timothy Lipman of the University of California, Berkeley , and Alec Brooks of AC Propulsion , laid the foundation for vehicle-to-grid power. And part of the change involves extending the city’s EV-charging network. “We

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