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The ABCs of National Drive Electric Week

Plug in America

For today’s purposes, “The ABCs of NDEW” are referring to A nchorage, B loomington, and C omox. These are just three of the 219 amazing events that were hosted in 206 cities and towns across the U.S. and in Canada and Mexico as part of NDEW 2023. EV-focused events occur in almost all 50 states of the U.S.,

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Video Friday: Reflex Grasping

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. This arrangement provides the dual function of adapting to objects with different geometries, varying surface contact force characteristics, and storing energy in the form of elastic potential.

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Copenhagen Diagnosis Released, Detailing Accelerating Indicators of Climate Change In Last Three Years

Green Car Congress

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. by Jack Rosebro.

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Sandia releases literature survey of crude oil properties relevant to handling and fire safety in transport

Green Car Congress

The DOE commissioned the investigation in response to the occurrence of several rail accidents involving crude oil combustion in the US and Canada during 2013-2014, some of which involved loss of life, property damage, and environmental impacts. All variables matter.

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Why professional trades employees abhor and unwelcome the do business in Unifor struck with Ford

Baua Electric

Collective bargaining with Ford is over, with new collective agreements in effect,” Unifor President Lana Payne mentioned in a remark to Car Information Canada. Payne prior to now mentioned the Unifor bargaining workforce driven Ford on each and every entrance to store a assurance that may “change lives in a profound way.”

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. They wouldn’t let us get them out on 7000s,” Goldman said, referring to the old-model printer that Ellenby’s group had used as a base. and Toronto, Ont.,

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