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Norwegian shipping industry pursuing battery-powered ships

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The Norwegian shipping industry is teaming up to develop battery-powered ships. Some 120 managers representing the entire maritime cluster gathered at a DNV seminar last week. Norled intends to use this experience in building and operating their fully electric ferry. The first four hybrid vessels will start to sail in 2013/14.

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ACAL Energy to Show Prototype Liquid Cathode Fuel Cell Power Module at FC EXPO 2010

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The FlowCath powered module demonstrates a practical product prototype which could be commercialized in less than two years. This significantly reduces the overall platinum content, while delivering the same level of fuel cell power density as today’s platinum cathode systems. Earlier post.) ACAL Energy is leading a £1.9 million (US$2.7

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Southern chapters embrace EV inclusion

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For many years, it has primarily included older white men in the tech, telecommunications, power, or other leading businesses in and around Atlanta.”. EV Club of the South NDEW event in the Atlanta area. For the time being, EVs are more expensive than comparable gasoline cars.

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Hyundai Motor Group and Seoul National University open joint battery research center; focus on Li-metal and solid-state

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Through consultations and seminars on battery technology, insights and development directions will be discussed, alongside a consultative body that will be formed regularly to share information on global battery industry trends and results. Hyundai Motor will invest KRW 9.5 trillion (US$7.4

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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The first installment is focused on powered exoskeletons. There isn’t one way to build a Mobot! Mobot ] This Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (CMU RI) seminar is presented by JPL’s Vandi Verma, on “Mars Robots and Robotics at NASA JPL.” “The Testing Lab” is a new series from Michigan Robotics.

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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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Starting from the technological building blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, power, and intelligence to automate the industry’s toughest challenges. MIT CSAIL ] This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots. SMART ITN ] 3 labs. Meet CSAIL’s machine friends. [

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DOE to award $9M to promote consensus on future fossil energy technologies

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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy will award $9 million over five years to organizations to assist it in building domestic and international consensus on future fossil energy technologies ( DE-FOA-0001111 ). turbines, fuel cells, hybrids, novel power generation cycles); coal conversion (e.g.,

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